Pamela Rogers Turner

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Pamela Joan Rogers (Turner) (born July 1, 1977), a former elementary school physical education teacher and coach in McMinnville, Tennessee, gained notoriety for her sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy, one of her students in Centertown Elementary School. During the three-month relationship, Rogers and the teen performed both vaginal sex and oral sex more than a dozen times, in the school, in her house, and in the teen's home.

1 Criminal prosecution
2 Personal life
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] Criminal prosecution

Pamela Rogers faced 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape on February 4, 2005. The charges stemmed from her 3-month relationship with a teenage boy. Following her arrest, she posted bail of $50,000. When originally charged, Turner pleaded not guilty.

Rogers later plead no contest to 4 charges of sexual battery by an authority figure on August 12, 2005, as part of a deal with the prosecution. Her sentence was 270 days (about 9 months) in the Warren County jail in Tennessee. During an 8-year suspended sentence, she must also serve a term of 7 years and 3 months of probation, register as a sex offender, and surrender her teaching certificate for life. The sentence not only prohibits her from profiting from the case (including books and movies), but also bars her from granting interviews for 8 years.

Rogers was arrested again on April 24, 2006 on charges that she had sent text messages, nude photos, and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father's cellphone. She was also charged for communicating with the boy via blogs and a website. The judge ordered her to remain in jail until her next court hearing. One of the videos surfaced on the internet, on BadJocks.com and showed Rogers - clad only in black underwear and white stockings - dancing provocatively. On July 14, 2006 Rogers was sentenced to 7 years in prison for violating her probation by sending explicit videos to her former victim and maintaining contact with him via online blogs. Rogers asked for mercy and apologized to her family and the teen's family saying tearfully to the judge, "I have humiliated myself. What I did was wrong, I am willing to do anything to rehabilitate myself." She asked for local incarceration with therapy. Circuit Judge Bart Stanley denied her request saying, "You have done everything except show this court that you wanted to rehabilitate yourself." He revoked Rogers' probation and ordered her to serve the rest of a seven-year prison sentence at the Tennessee State Prison for Women.^[1]

Joan Schleicher, a psychologist who interviewed Rogers said she was best described as a sex addict as well as suffering from significant post-traumatic stress, from a great deal of trauma in her life and from extreme immaturity. Schleicher is also concerned that Rogers might be vulnerable to lesbian involvement in prison given her now publicized past involvement in lesbian sex, her sexual addiction and her history of vulnerability.[1]

[edit] Personal life

In 1997, she was Ms. Monday Nitro in World Championship Wrestling at Spring Break festivities.^[2]

She married Christopher Turner, a High School basketball coach, in 2003. He filed for divorce in January 2005, around the time of her indictment. Separated since 2004, the couple was already experiencing marital difficulties when Pamela's legal troubles came to light.^[3]