Pamela Rogers Turner

Pamela Joan Rogers
Born (1977-07-01) July 1, 1977
Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation Former teacher
Criminal charge Sexual battery, probation violation
Criminal penalty Incarceration (270 days)
Probation (7 years 3 months; violated, revoked)
Incarceration (7 years) on revocation
Incarceration (2 years), sending nude pictures to a minor
Criminal status Released August 12, 2012
Spouse(s) Christopher Turner (divorced)

Pamela Joan Rogers (born July 1, 1977) is an American former elementary school physical education teacher and coach who taught in McMinnville, Tennessee. She had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy who was one of her students in Centertown Elementary School.

Crime

According to court documentation, Rogers had sex with the student on at least 12 occasions, including oral, vaginal, and manual sex as well as having the student engage in oral sex and digital penetration on her.[1]

Criminal prosecution

Rogers faced 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape on February 4, 2005. The charges stemmed from her 3-month relationship with a teenage boy. She was 27 years of age at the time of the relationship. Following her arrest, she posted bail of $50,000. When originally charged, she pleaded not guilty.

Rogers later pleaded no contest to four charges of sexual battery by an authority figure on August 12, 2005, as part of a deal with the prosecution. Her sentence was 270 days (about nine months) in the Warren County jail in Tennessee. During an eight-year suspended sentence, she must also serve a term of seven years and three months of probation, surrender her teaching certificate, and register as a sex offender for life because sexual battery by an authority figure is "Violent sexual offense" under Tennessee law.[2] The sentence not only prohibits her from profiting from the case (including books and movies), but also bars her from granting interviews for eight years. It also effectively ended her teaching career; most states will not grant a teaching license to a convicted felon.

Rogers was arrested again on April 24, 2006 on charges that she had sent text messages, nude photos, and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father's cellphone. She was also charged for communicating with the boy via blogs and a website. The judge ordered her to remain in jail until her next court hearing. On July 14, 2006 Rogers was sentenced to seven years in prison for violating her probation by sending explicit videos to her former victim and maintaining contact with him via online blogs. Rogers asked for mercy and apologized to her family and the teen's family, saying tearfully to the judge, "I have humiliated myself. What I did was wrong, I am willing to do anything to rehabilitate myself." She asked for local incarceration with therapy. Circuit Judge Bart Stanley denied her request saying, "You have done everything except show this court that you wanted to rehabilitate yourself." He revoked Rogers' probation and ordered her to serve the rest of a seven-year prison sentence at the Tennessee State Prison for Women.[3][4]

She received two additional years of prison time in January 2007 after pleading guilty to sending nude photos of herself to the boy.[5][6]

In June 2015 she was arrested again in a separate case after her release from prison. Allegedly she conspired with two current inmates to send cell phones into the state prison where she used to be housed. [7]

Personal life

In 1997, Turner was Ms. Monday Nitro in World Championship Wrestling at Spring Break festivities.[8] She married Christopher Turner, a High School basketball coach, in 2003. He filed for divorce in January 2005, around the time of her indictment. Separated since 2004, the couple was already experiencing marital difficulties when her legal troubles came to light.[9]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/another-teacher-nabbed-student-sex?page=1
  2. ↑ http://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2010/title-40/chapter-39/part-2/40-39-202
  3. ↑ "Ex-teacher goes to jail for nude photos". Archived from the original on July 19, 2006. Retrieved 2006-07-15.
  4. ↑ Ex-Teacher Ignores Probation Order About.com
  5. ↑ "Teacher's Obsession Costs Her Two More Years in Jail". The Globe and Mail (Toronto). Archived from the original on January 14, 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
  6. ↑ Ex-Teacher Gets 2 More Years for Photos January 10, 2007. Archived March 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Pamela Rogers Arrested In Contraband Investigation". Pamela Rogers Turner (Tennessee). Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  8. ↑ "Teacher's sex case has town in turmoil". Tennessean.com. Retrieved 2006-08-26.
  9. ↑ "Attorney says divorce not related to marriage breakup". AP. Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. Retrieved 2006-08-26.

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