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Lawyer for teacher in student sex case says she's changed...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b. "Well, yes, but on the other hand she suffers from a serious mental illness and there were six psychiatrists who were prepared to testify had we gone to trial that she is indeed mentally ill," he told "Good Morning America." "She is being treated now and is a different person than she was a couple of years ago and she recognizes how serious that situation was." He also said this was Lafave's way of showing optimism for what lies ahead. "This has been a long ordeal," Fitzgibbons told "Good Morning America," "but she's optimistic and I think she's looking at this on a long-term basis and she'll go on with her life and have a good life." Florida state prosecutors dropped charges against Lafave, 25, after a Marion County judge rejected their second plea agreement. The plea agreement would not have required Lafave to serve any time in prison. Still, Lafave isn't going completely without punishment. In November, a judge in Hillsborough County sentenced her to three years of house arrest and seven years probation, after she pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery under a plea deal there. She had been charged with having sex with the boy in a classroom and at her home. Her lawyer said that the charges in Marion County, related to an incident in which she allegedly had sex with her student in her sport utility vehicle as the boy's cousin drove, might have been dropped because of her mental illness. "I think that was a big factor, plus the w... Stronger Warnings Considered for ADHD Drugs...
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