Health Teacher Arrested for Molesting Boy

(Palm Beach County, Florida) A 50-year-old health teacher at Park Vista High School, Donna Lea Smith, has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation and sexual battery for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenage boy who is reportedly a relative.

From Sun-Sentinel.com:

From time to time, they would watch TV together in bed.

The 15-year-old boy would kiss her cheek. The woman, 50, would kiss his lips.

They would undress and have sex.

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Investigators following up on a tip to the Florida Abuse Hotline interviewed the unidentified boy, who told them he slept with Smith, of West Lake Worth, four or six times.

"He stated they had 'mixed emotions,'" investigators wrote in an arrest affidavit. "He stated the first time was at the end of seventh grade, when he was 14 years old."

The boy's last encounter with Smith was about six months ago, but he couldn't remember whether it was before or after his 15th birthday, court documents show.

Park Vista High School Principal, Nora Rosensweig, awaits the outcome of the criminal investigation and has reassigned Smith to job duties where she will not have contact with students. Smith will continue to collect her $60,507 salary.

Another source indicates that Smith was also charged with the incest-related crime of sexual assault by a custodian. It's not clear what family relationship exists between the boy and Smith. Reportedly, the sex occurred while Smith's husband, James, was asleep in an adjacent room.

In her defense, Smith told investigators that the boy assaulted her twice and she quietly cried both times.

"I told him often about control and that he would get arrested for rape if [it were] someone else," Smith told investigators. "After [Christmas], he kept getting nastier and nastier. I told him he violated me and I still wanted an apology."

Smith is behind bars in the Palm Beach County Jail without bond. I'm going to the sink and wash my hands. Unfortunately, it won't wash away the thoughts of a 50-year-old woman mixing it up with a 15-year-old boy.