LAKELAND, FL -- A Polk County school teacher, charged with sexually assaulting four students, will be on house arrest if she bonds out of jail, a Polk County judge said today.
The judge set the bond for 32 year old Danielle Jones at $200,000. If she get out, she will be on house arrest with a GPS Monitor. She will not be allowed to have contact with minors, and will not be allowed to access the internet or have a phone that sends text messages, the judge said.
Jones has been the science teacher at Stambaugh Middle School for the last seven years. Investigators say she had sex with four teenage boys at her home last year. Two of them are her former students, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.
"It's painfully obvious to us that she's a pedophile." said Judd.
The others victims are are a friend and a cousin of the student victims, investigators said. They ranged in age between 14 and 16 years old at the time of the alleged sexual contact.
Jones has refused to talk to deputies and has requested an attorney.
Jones has been charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious battery and two counts of unlawful sexual activity with minors.
According to her arrest affidavit, Jones drove the boys to her home and had sex with them 5 times between June and August of last year.
The sheriff says the one of the victims contacted her through her MySpace page, to which the teacher replied, "Hey baby. I just miss my boys. Yall need to come see you (sic) momma soon!"
From then on Jones spoke to her victims over 50 times through MySpace, and over the phone, where she offered to give them massages and told them she missed them, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Judd said, at a lunchtime news conference, Jones would have threesomes with some of the victims. One victim told detectives Jones had sex with two boys ten times in one night. At one point, after an all nighter at Jones apartment, one victim claimed he awoke to find the teacher having sex with another boy in the bathtub.
When deputies searched Jones' home, they found sex aids in her bedroom including condoms, lubricating jelly and red furry handcuffs.
Jones was suspended from Stambaugh Middle School in Auburndale on May 16th, when school officials became aware of the charges. Deputies began their investigation that day.
