Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Stephanie Ragusa, 31, Math teacher, Davidsen Middle School, Tampa FL

Stephanie Ragusa has been arrested and charged with five counts of lewd and lascivious battery on allegations of having sex with a 15-year-old boy. Investigators allege that Ragusa performed oral sex on the boy twice, and had intercourse with him three other times, between Oct 1 2006 to May 4 2007. It is further alleged that the victim was also able to describe tattoos located on either side of Ragusa’s who-ha, tattoos which could only be seen if she wasn’t wearing clothes.

Update April 15 2008: Stephanie Ragusa has been arrested again. She was slamming another 15 year old. Police were able to link her via cell phone text message records. Allegedly she had sex with the boy as recently as Mar 10 2008.

Update April 28 2008: Stephanie Ragusa has been arrested again. Victim #2 did not show up for school, so police went to his house. They found Stephanie Ragusa there! So she got arrested for the third time in six weeks.

Update May 8 2008: Police believe there are now a total of four victims, and are investigating if there are others.

Update July 8 2008: Police release pictures of Ragusa's tattoos.

There is so much more, read some of it here...

Update June 28 2010: Stephanie Ragusa was convicted of having sex with 2 students, and was called a sexual predator today by a judge who sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Ragusa has already spent the last two years in jail. Ragusa plead guilty to repeated sexual encounters with a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy.



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2008-04-15 arrest

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2010-06-28   credit: WFTS