TAMPA, FL -- Debra LaFave stood before Judge Wayne Timmerman with a request to ease up restrictions on her visitation with children under 18 as part of her probation.
She plead guilty to engaging in lewd or lascivious battery with a middle school student in 2005.
Judge Timmerman agreed to allow the former teacher unsupervised access to children under 18 as long as their parents provided consent.
LaFave's probation officer believed the visitation would be supervised. LaFave's attorney, John Fitzgibbons, argued this plan would fulfill the terms of her original probation.
The change in restrictions was requested so LaFave could be around the children of family and friends.
LaFave finished the sex offender therapy program she has been participating in since December 2005.
She refused to comment to the media after the ruling.
