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· January 10:  Teacher accused of sex with 13 year-old boy gets more jail time for probation violation. Former school teacher Pamela Rogers has been handed an additional two years for sending nude photos of herself to a boy she was convicted of having sex with. Rogers was on probation at the time.  Wednesday morning January 10, 2007 in McMinnville, the 29-year-old Rogers entered a plea agreement, pleading guilty to two counts of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor. 

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· Ex-teacher gets 7 years prison for probation violation. Pamela Rogers, 29, cries as she makes a plea to the judge as she appears in circuit court in McMinnville, Tenn. on Friday, July 14, 2006, during her probation revocation hearing. Rogers, a former teacher, was ordered by Judge Bart Stanley to report to state prison for violating her probation on a sentence for having sex with a 13-year-old boy.  He revoked Rogers’ probation and ordered her to serve the rest of a seven-year prison sentence that had been largely suspended.  A grand jury issued a new indictment against Rogers last week charging her with four counts of exploiting a minor. 

· Rogers indicted on four new charges. Ex-teacher to meet with judge Friday.  Pamela Rogers, the former elementary school teacher accused of sending sexually explicit images of herself to a male teen she’d had sex with, has been indicted on additional charges stemming from her communications with the boy, court records show.  The new charges came four days before Rogers’ Friday afternoon hearing before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley. The judge will decide whether she should remain in jail to serve all or a portion of the seven remaining years of her 2005 sentence. The judge also could choose to keep her out of jail. 

· April 26:  Pamela Rogers arrested again in sex case. Her arrest this week stems from further allegations that she has had extensive contact with the boy and his family, including calls, e-mails and text messages along with the nude photos and sex videos, court documents allege. Some of the naked photos and videos she sent after her most recent court appearance on April 12, a warrant says.  “These were videos of (the) defendant involved in sexual activity and she was nude in the pictures,” the warrant says. 

· April 13: Teacher’s blog causes arrest. A Warren County teacher who got out of jail two months ago after being accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has blogged about the boy on the Internet, a local prosecutor said.  Pamela Rogers, 28, violated her probation by setting up a personal Web page and blog on which she mentioned the boy, District Attorney General Dale Potter said. 

· ‘Sex Teacher’ Arrested For Contacting Victim. A former teacher in Tennessee who was jailed for having sex with an underage student is in trouble again.  Pamela Rogers was in a Warren County courtroom on Wednesday.  Authorities say the 28-year-old woman may have committed several probation violations by allegedly using the Internet to contact the 13-year-old boy and his family.  Rogers served six months in jail for having sex with the boy and was released February 26. 

· Pamela Rogers released from jail after six weeks. She was sentenced to 9 months in jail, but ended up serving just a little more than six months due to good behavior.  Rogers was serving the sentence for her sexual relationship with a 13 year-old male student from Centertown. At the time, Rogers was married and went by the name Pamela Turner. 

· Teacher gets 9 months in sex plea. Pamela Rogers, the Warren County elementary school teacher and coach, pleaded guilty today to four counts of sexual battery by an authority figure for having a sexual affair with a 13-year-old star athlete student.  Rogers, 28, was sentenced to 270 days in the Warren County jail and will surrender her state teaching certificate for life. Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley also barred her from granting interviews or profiting from her story during eight years of probation.  Her plea avoids a trial that could have landed Rogers in prison for two to 16 years if she had been found guilty of all 28 counts from her February indictment. 

MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. – Authorities have arrested a female teacher from a Warren County, Tennessee school, charging her with having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy.  Pamela Rogers Turner was charged this week with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape.

The 27-year-old Turner is a graduate of Tennessee Tech University with a degree in education.  Bobby Cox, director of instruction for Warren County schools, said Turner had been a teacher in the Warren County system for about 1½ years. She taught physical education and worked with all grades at the K-8 grade school in McMinnville.

Prosecutor Dale Potter says some of incidents were alleged to have taken place at the school – others at the student’s home.  Potter says his office intends to prosecute the case to the fullest extent possible because it involves a child.

Turner is currently free on $50,000 bond, and has been placed on leave by the school system, with an arraignment set for Feb. 23.

Pamela’s father, Lamar Rogers, has been the girls basketball coach at Clarkrange High School for 29 years, winning his first state champsionship in 1983, and coached his daughter Pamela’s team to the state title in 1995.

Pamela Joan Rogers married Christopher Turner on July 26, 2003.  Turner is currently in the process of a divorce from her husband, who is head coach for the Warren County High School boys varsity basketball team in McMinnville.

Conviction on all counts could be punished by up to 100 years in prison, although it is unlikely given her gender.  At her court hearing on February 23, Pamela Rogers Turner’s lawyer entered a plea of Not Guilty, unlike another teacher with similar troubles – Debra Lafave, who is expected to use an insanity defense.

A judge in McMinnville, Tennessee has set a November 15th trial date for Turner. 

IMPORTANT:  All the recent media stories on various charges and indictments of teachers are just that, charges – not convictions.  It is important to keep an open mind and learn the facts of the case(s) in a court of law before coming to any conclusions of guilt.  It would not be the first time overly-zealous prosecutors were wrong.