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Teacher Accused Of Sex With Boys Recorded

Teacher Arrested Three Times

POSTED: 1:52 pm CDT May 12, 2008
UPDATED: 2:00 pm CDT May 12, 2008

Authorities released a recording of a 17-minute phone conversation between a Tampa, Fla., school teacher and a teenager she is accused of molesting.

Stephanie Ragusa, 29, has been arrested three times on charges that she had sex with two teenage boys.

According to a transcript released last week, Ragusa said during a phone call with one of the alleged victims that she knew that the relationship was illegal.

"I don't want to wear an orange jumpsuit," Ragusa said in the transcript, adding, "You couldn't leave your house without someone trying to shove a camera in your face wanting you to talk about it."

Ragusa also indicated in the transcript how such a relationship would be viewed.

"It's like a real old guy going after really young girls, you know? It's creepy. That's what they would see it as," she said in the transcript.

A report on The Tampa Tribune's Web site said sheriff's investigators interviewed the teenager involved in the call, who said he was 14 when he had sex with Ragusa, and asked him to record a conversation with her.

The report said that Ragusa was arrested the next day and charged with lewd and lascivious battery.

The teen reportedly said he and Ragusa had sex at least three times from January through May 2007, the Web site reported.

On April 15, she was arrested again on allegations that she had sex with another teenager as many as 20 times from Feb. 15, 2007, the Web site reported.

That 15-year-old boy turned 16 during the alleged relationship.

On April 28, Ragusa was arrested a third time after she left the second boy's home, investigators reportedly said.

According to the Web site, the boy told deputies they had just had sex again.


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