'TOO PRETTY FOR JAIL'
A teacher accused of repeatedly seducing a 14-year-old pupil is too pretty to go to jail, her lawyers argue.
Debra Lafave, 24, faces up to 30 years in a Florida jail on charges including lascivious battery.
Her lawyer told a pre-trial hearing: "To place Debbie into a state women's penitentiary, to place an attractive young woman in that kind of hellhole, is like putting a piece of raw meat in with the lions."
Ms Lafave, a former pin-up model, will claim she was insane due to emotional stress and did not know right from wrong when she had sex numerous times with Matthew Merchant while she was a middle-school reading teacher.
The boy told investigators they had sex in a classroom, her house and once in a vehicle while his 15-year-old cousin drove.
He said Lafave told him her marriage was in trouble and that she was aroused by the fact that having sex with him was not allowed.
The judge agreed to appoint two mental health professionals to evaluate Lafave.
