Ex-teacher goes to jail for nude photos (AP) Updated: 2006-07-15 08:46
MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. - A former teacher who has already served jail time for
having sex with a 13-year-old student was sent to prison for more than six years
Friday for violating her probation by sending the boy nude photos of herself.
 Pamela Rogers listens
to testimony in circuit court in McMinnville, Tenn., Friday, July 14,
2006, during her probation revocation hearing. Rogers, a former teacher
who has already served jail time for having sex with a 13-year-old
student, was sent to prison for more than six years Friday for violating
her probation by sending the boy nude photos of herself.
[AP] | When Pamela Rogers, 29, was released after serving 198 days in jail, she was
under orders not to contact the student or his family or use the Internet. But
authorities say that even after appearing in court on a charge of violating her
probation in April, she continued talking with the boy and sending him text
messages and sexually explicit photos and video of herself.
"You have done everything except show this court that you wanted to
rehabilitate yourself," Warren County Circuit Judge Bart Stanley said. He
revoked Rogers' probation and ordered her to serve the rest of a seven-year
prison sentence that had been largely suspended.
Rogers, who has been in jail since April, presented evidence in a hearing
Friday, including a clinical psychologist who said she was a sex addict. She
apologized tearfully and was led away in handcuffs to a women's prison in
Nashville.
Rogers worked as a physical education teacher at Centertown Elementary
School, which the boy, now 14, attended.
She was first arrested in February 2005 and pleaded no contest to charges of
statutory rape and sexual battery by an authority figure. Records in the case
said she had intercourse and oral sex with the student.
A grand jury issued a new indictment against Rogers last week charging her
with four counts of exploiting a minor.
Rogers' mother asked the judge for leniency in a letter, saying a bad
marriage had destabilized her daughter emotionally.
"No one would have done that if they were of normal mind," Karen Rogers wrote
in the letter, obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
She said her daughter's ex-husband, Chris Turner, had subjected her to
"mental, verbal and emotional abuse" and threatened to kill her. Turner's
attorney Mike Galligan called the letter "the statements of a desperate
mother."
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