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"I have a lot of things in my past that have unfortunately become public," Lafave said.

"I pray with all my heart that the young man and his family will be able to move on with their lives," she said.

"Again, I offer my deepest apologies." Hillsborough County prosecutor Mike Sinacore has said the victim's family had anticipated a trial, but that the media attention prompted the boy's mother to push for a plea deal.

"There is no one that wanted to see Debra Lafave serve jail time more than myself," the boy's mother wrote in an e-mail to the Ocala Star-Banner over the weekend.

But she said the welfare of her son was more important.

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... Ex-priest's former prey watch him with worry SEARCH Pick Newspaper Star-Ledger Times, Trenton Jersey Journal Gloucester Times Express-Times Bridgeton News Today's Sunbeam Hunterdon Democrat Reporter, Somerset The Warren Reporter Independent Press Suburban News Cranford Chronicle Record-Press FIND A BUSINESS More Long-Term Archives (Paid) Ex-priest's former prey watch him with worry They say his actions present new danger Wednesday, March 22, 2006BY JEFF DIAMANT Star-Ledger Staff Paul Steidler always worried that James Hanley would strike again.

Steidler was one of at least a dozen boys in the 1970s and 1980s molested by Hanley, the defrocked Catholic priest from the Paterson Diocese at the center of the state's most notorious clergy sex abuse case.

Yet even after Hanley admitted to the abuse in court papers in late 2003, Steidler's anxiety didn't ease.

Because of the statute of limitations, Hanley was never charged with a crime - and therefore was never registered as a sex offender and subjected to monitoring by police.

So Steidler, Mark Serrano and some of their fellow victims have taken to doing it themselves.

They view themselves as self-appointed watchdogs, regularly running Hanley's name through Internet searches and even paying for private detectives.

Now, after months of erratic behavior by Hanley, and after the former priest's move last fall from a senior citizens housing complex to a residential neighborhood with ch...

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Story Tools E-mail this story | Print By Mitch Stacy Associated Press March 22, 2006 TAMPA, Fla.

- Prosecutors in one Florida county decided Tuesday to drop charges against a former Tampa teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old middle school student.

The decision, announced hours after a judge rejected a plea deal for Debra Lafave, means the victim won't have to testify.

Advertisement Lafave's sentence in another county for having sex with the same boy still stands.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys had urged the judge to accept the deal for the sake of the boy involved.

A psychiatrist who examined the teenager told the judge at a previous hearing that the boy suffered extreme anxiety from the media coverage of the case and does not want to testify.

However, Marion County Circuit Judge Hale Stancil said the lack of prison time for Lafave under the plea deal "shocks the conscience of this court," and he rejected it.

Asst.

State Atty.

Richard Ridgway, in explaining the decision to drop the charges, said: "The court may be willing to risk the well-being of the victims in this case in order to force it to trial.

I am not." Lafave, 25, was already sentenced to three years of house arrest and seven years' probation in Hillsborough County, where she was charged with having sex with the same boy in a classroom and her home.

She pleaded guilty Nov.

22 to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery under a plea deal there.

In Marion County, she was a...