MCMINNVILLE, Tennessee, Aug 12 AP - A former physical education teacher charged with having sex with a 13-year-old student has gone to jail for nine months.
Pamela Rogers Turner, 28, entered a no contest plea that allows her to avoid a scheduled November trial on multiple charges of sexual battery and statutory rape.
The prosecutor yesterday read details of the sexual encounters with the boy that began last November and went on for three months, including one which occurred in the school gym, the Southern Standard newspaper reported.
I can't even talk,'' she told Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley after the prosecutor had finished reading. Turner was arrested in February and freed on a $US50,000 ($A64,630) bond after investigators discovered the relationship, and an indictment charged her with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape. Before resigning, Turner taught physical education and coached girls basketball two years at Centertown Elementary, a school teaching children from ages 5 through 14, about 100 kilometres southeast of Nashville. She was a former college homecoming queen and basketball player who once appeared as a bikini-clad promoter for a professional wrestling match. The sheriff once described her as absolutely gorgeous.’’
Turner arrived at the courthouse more than an hour before the hearing and made no comment other than responses during the proceedings.
Her lawyer, Peter Strianse of Nashville, said afterward that the plea agreement, with charges punishable by up to 100 years in prison, was best for his client.
After she finishes her time in the Warren County jail, she will be on supervised probation for the rest of an eight-year suspended sentence.
The judge also ordered Turner to surrender her teaching certificate and said she would be registered as a child sex offender.
The sentence prohibits her from profiting from the case and does not allow interviews.
District Attorney Dale Potter said Turner lived at the boy’s house ``for a brief period of time when she was moving from residence to residence.’’
A photo…wrong is still wrong though!
Darn teachers…
What was this kid thinking???
What was she thinking? That’s what I can’t understand. Having been a 13 old boy at one time, I can certainly understand his motivation.
Lucky kid!! It was always one off my fantasies to have ‘fun’ with one of my teachers!! LOL…She’d have to be fit mind you!
The picture speaks volumes. This may happen more than we think. there have been 3 prominent cases and all 3 have involved beautiful girls. For that reason, the kids involved were bragging to their friends and their jealous friends told parents and… you can guess the rest! The girls involved all had problems, obviously.
My point exactly. I remember discussing one of the cases in a class in law school, and the professor pointed out that if the sexes of the two people had been reversed, the adult would have been drawn and quartered, which was the point made by the prosecuting attorney in that case (who was a woman) when the rather lenient sentence was handed down to the teacher involved.
There was 2 cases in Australia which showed that.
The female teacher was guilty and her sentence was what she had spent in remand. The prosecution appealed and the sentence was increased to 18 months (I think)
What was she thinking. In a lot of cases the rape happens because one person has power over the other.
Flash: I meant why would this kid say anything?? Come on now! This is every young teen’s dream.
That was Charlie’s point about the kid shooting his mouth off.
However, as also pointed out by Charlie, these women have SERIOUS problems, and as great as it might seem to a 13 old at first blush, getting mixed up with a psycho chick is something no one that age should be subjected to. They’ll have more than enough opportunities for that kind of self punishment when they’re adults.
Now that’s the TRUTH!
But she’s still hot…
Rupert
LOL! 
Y’all are crazy.
Lucky SOB…Oh well this happens all the time except in Ohio…Lucky me! haha