A 25-year-old former teacher in Florida pleaded guilty to charges of having sex with a 14-year-old student, but she won't serve any time in prison:

Debra Lafave, 25, whose sensational case made tabloid headlines, will serve three years of house arrest and seven years’ probation. She pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery.

Those Florida prosecutors sure do know how to get the job done:

Fitzgibbons said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave. He said then that she planned to plead insanity at trial, claiming emotional stress kept her from knowing right from wrong.

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Are you kidding me? She couldn't go to prison for raping a child because she's too pretty? That's patently absurd. The prosecutors should have taken the case to trial. A jury would have seen through the emotional distress defense.

Why isn't anybody thinking of the emotional distress inflicted on the 14-year-old she had sex with? Lots of talk radio personalities and others have made jokes about how this wasn't a crime, it was every teenage boy's fantasy. The trauma may not manifest right away, but it will eventually and he will have to work through the ramifications of this woman's crime for a long time.

Debra Lafave should be in prison. The prosecutors failed. Justice is not served by this plea deal.