Thursday, May 8, 2008

News Briefs - May 8

Telephone transcript and more
The weirdly-grinning Stephanie Ragusa is in the news again. Investigators say there are at least four underage victims involved A judge ordered prosecutors to release the call between former teacher, Stephanie Ragusa, and one of her underage student victims. They released several documents. (TT entry)

Telephone transcript PDF
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Incident Report PDF
Supplemental Investigation Report 1 PDF
Supplemental Investigation Report 2 PDF
Miscellaneous Documents PDF

Trial delayed (again)
An Ohio teacher charged with fourth-degree felony menacing by stalking for sending love letters to a 13-year-old student has had his trial delayed again while a civil case proceeds. Richard Prusha, a Scio, Ohio teacher, was charged and indicted in 2007. (TT - Entry)

"Highly Educated"
In sentencing speech therapist and teacher (and mother of six chidren) Jane M. Dettmering, for burning down her own house, the judge explained his reasons for the one-year jail - not prison - and the long probation. Judge James Babler explained that the lengthy period of probation was for Dettmering to pay an estimated $115,000 restitution to American Family Insurance. Her jail time will be served with work release privileges. He had difficulty determining the sentence.
Babler said he had great difficulty in deciding on a sentence for Dettmering, partly because she was not a typical criminal. He said he’d gotten a number of letters from community members attesting to her good character. Some said Dettmering couldn’t be guilty, said Babler.

He added that Dettmering was highly educated and that she was at low risk to re-offend.
TT - Of course not, you twit, she doesn't have another house to burn down!
(TT Entry)

1 comment:

newshound said...

Hello Mediaskeptic,
Can you please send me your email address? I really need to get in touch with you about a posting that you have in an old blog from over 6 years ago. There was one article that ran about my husband getting charged with ridiculous charges that were brought against him by a mentally ill school secretary. He has been completely exonerated of the charges and has a totally clean record and has been working in public education for the past 5 years after the whole nightmare of that experience. Unfortunately, he recently was up for a new job and someone on the interview committee googled him and found your blog from over six years ago with the newspaper article. Even though he explained what happened, they did not hire him because they felt the article was too controversial for their conservative school district. I am trying to reach you to see if you would consider removing the posting in light of this information. I respect what you are trying to do, but when people get accused of things that they didn't do, it causes so much anguish. The fact that it is permanently living on the web on your blog is killing us emotionally. Please, please email me at your earliest convenience. Thank you.