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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b - but she didn't take them, she said.

At Jail East, Shelby County's facility for women, she found hymn-singing fellow inmates, motivational programs and two caring deputy jailers to whom she later sent thank-you cards.

When a white bus took her Downtown to face a judge, she believes she found a miracle.

A friendly faced public defender and a guilty plea helped end her case in about 15 minutes.

"Fourteen days start to finish, 15 minutes and I'm out of court and I'm going to my kids," Villalvazo said.

"It just doesn't happen." Villalvazo reunited with her husband.

He pleaded guilty and got out of jail after she was arrested on drug charges.

She's on probation for two years and must pay more than $8,000 in fines and fees.

Her husband must pay thousands as well, including a $6,802 bill for 179 days in jail.

The guilty are charged $38 a day.

"I'm sorry I went and I hate that I'm going to have a felony for the rest of my life, but it was a good experience," she said.

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...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b and is getting therapy.

"The past two years have been hard on all parties involved," she said.

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

Again, I offer my deepest apologies.

I've been undergoing extensive therapy and believe it has helped me tremendously." Lafave, now 25, was accused in Marion County of having sex with the boy in a sport utility vehicle while his cousin drove them around, and in Hillsborough County of having sex with him in a classroom and her home in June 2004.

A Hillsborough judge approved a plea deal here and sentenced her to three years of house arrest and seven years' probation.

The Hillsborough deal was contingent upon the one in Marion County.

Under the deal, she also has to register as a sex offender, forfeit her teaching certificate and sometimes wear an electronic monitoring device.

Stancil objected because the minimum prison sentences for her lewd and lascivious battery charges are nearly 17 years.

Stancil said victims of sexual offenses rarely want to testify and this victim, now 16, is no different.

The judge also said he would have been more inclined to accept the deal if Lafave was only facing charges in Marion County.

"As it stands, the court is unable to comprehend what is to be gained by a plea deal and a concurrent sentence in Marion County," Stancil wrote.

The victim has become withdrawn and has trouble talking about the incident, Dr.

Martin Lazoritz testified at ...

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, a disease characterized by dramatic shifts from depressive to manic moods, an illness not directly associated with any sexually predatory or deviant behavior.

During the question and answer period with the press, she criticized the media for under-reporting and misunderstanding her alleged disease.

'I challenge you (the media) to read a book or an article on bipolar illness.' When asked about her greatest regret, Lafave briefly mentioned her guilt for sleeping with her 14 year old student before blaming the media for being an invader of the boy's privacy.

It may well have been that Lafave was not married during the time of her offense.

She never mentioned her ex-husband during her comments today, and an apology for the devastation and embarrassment she cause him seemed to be the least of her now greatly reduced concerns.

She's looking to an unmarred future despite the turmoil she is responsible for.

Apparently, it's an online journalism course that has currently stuck fancy with the ex-teacher.

'God has given me a great outlet to write.' Team Lafave exclaimed, 'Well, it's over!

' in this afternoon's courtroom, but Lafave's ex-husband husband Owen isn't satisfied ignoring this particularly loose end.

He is currently filming the documentary 'After School', a Powerhouse Pictures film, in which he narrates an in depth look at the suggested double standard which exists within the twisted world of student-teacher sex scandals.

It looks as though Debra Laf...