Teacher sentenced to 10 years for having sex with students

A judge in Tampa, Florida, on Monday sentenced Stephanie Ragusa, a former middle school math teacher, to 10 years in prison for having sex with two underage students in 2008.
"As parents, we place our trust in teachers to provide a safe environment in which our children can learn," Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe said in handing down the sentence. "You violated that trust in the worst imaginable way."
Tharpe also sentenced Ragusa to 15 years of sex offender probation following her prison time.
Ragusa, 31, pleaded guilty in April to three counts of lewd and lascivious battery in a March 2008 case involving a 14-year-old boy, and two counts of having unlawful sex with a minor in an April 2008 case involving a 16-year-old student.
Ragusa has been in jail since she was arrested in 2008 leaving one of the victims' homes.
Monday's sentencing included testimony from the victims' families, who depicted Ragusa as a sexual predator who caused severe emotional distress for their sons.

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[southport97]

Hope that young dick was worth it.

[dablkfabio]

This is some Bull Shit, so if she was Blonde and had Blue Eyes like Debra Lafave and makeup then she gets less reduced sentence, man the laws in this country is soch bull shit American Justice My Azz!!!!! I don't believe in this bull shit Justice System, because its the same system that will sentence a women 1 year or less for the same crime of which a man would get 25 to life for. Bull Shit!!!!!!!!!

[johnny6767howes]

Like they say in all schools no sexual assult faggot

[mirzayanov1]

@MrIndianarat girls and guys are different

[JayLovePlaysGuitar]

what teacher has cornrows..?

[RyzoKanji]

14 and 15 year old boys. come on. Im sure those boys are fine. If she wasnt a teacher no one wudve said anything

[clementine86brinkley]

all sex offenders should get life!!!!!

[MrIndianarat]

@dablkfabio double standards suck....she deserves worse.

[TheRf247]

I bet the judge fantasized and wished he was little jimmy getting laid by his teacher

[jubhbyby3213]

nasty hair