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Ex-teacher urges silence in sex case

Published: May 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM
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TAMPA, Fla., May 8 (UPI) -- A former Tampa, Fla., teacher accused of having sex with two middle school boys warned one to keep quiet about an alleged affair, a court transcript says.

Stephanie Ragusa said it was "kind of like one of those things you have to take to the grave," the document said.

Prosecutors released a transcript of a 17-minute March 12 phone call Ragusa, 29, allegedly had with one of the boys , who was 14 and in the 7th grade at Davidsen Middle School, where she taught when their relationship allegedly began. She was unaware their conversation was being recorded, prosecutors said.

Ragusa was reluctant to talk on the phone about their relationship which she admitted was illegal because of their ages, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

If word got out, she said, "it would be all over the news and everything."


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