From ABC News:
When Debra Lafave, the former Tampa, Fla., teacher accused of having sex with her 14-year-old student, learned that state prosecutors had dropped charges against her, she called her ordeal “a bump in the road.”
“I’m a strong Christian woman and I believe God has a path for me and this was just a bump in the road,” she said.
While quite hilarious, that probably wasn’t the smartest thing Lafave could have said. But then again, I don’t think anyone’s ever accused Lafave of being a smart cookie.
John Fitzgibbons, Lafave’s lawyer, acknowledged that Lafave referring to having sex with her student as a “bump in the road” could offend people, but said she was also referring to her struggle with bipolar disorder.
“Well, yes, but on the other hand she suffers from a serious mental illness and there were six psychiatrists who were prepared to testify had we gone to trial that she is indeed mentally ill,” he told “Good Morning America.” “She is being treated now and is a different person than she was a couple of years ago and she recognizes how serious that situation was.”
How long until the book gets written? Or the Playboy spread appears? Three months? Six?
