Pamela Joan Rogers
Pamela Joan Rogers (Turner) (born July 1, 1977), a former elementary school physical education teacher and coach in Tennessee, gained notoriety for her sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy, one of her students in Centertown Elementary School, Tennessee. To avoid the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence, she pleaded no contest to 4 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure.
Criminal prosecution
Pamela Rogers faced 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape on February 4 2005. The charges stemmed from her 3-month relationship with a teenage boy. Following her arrest, she posted bail of $50,000.
During the three-month relationship, Rogers and the teen performed both vaginal sex and oral sex more than a dozen times, in the school, in her house, and in the teen's home.
Rogers, a friend of the teen's family, plead no contest to 4 charges of sexual battery by an authority figure on August 12 2005, as part of a deal with the prosecution.
Her sentence was 270 days (about 9 months) in the Warren County jail in Tennessee. During an 8-year suspended sentence, she must also serve a term of 7 years and 3 months of probation, register as a sex offender, and surrender her teaching certificate for life.
The sentence not only prohibits her from profiting from the case (including books and movies), but also bars her from granting interviews for 8 years.
When originally charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape, Turner pleaded not guilty.
Rogers was arrested again on April 24, 2006 on charges that she had sent text messages, nude photos, and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father's cellphone. A judge has ordered her to remain in jail until her next court hearing, currently scheduled for July 2006. At least one of the videos has surfaced on the internet and shows Rogers - clad only in black underwear and white stockings - dancing provocatively.
Personal life
In 1997, she was Ms. Monday Nitro in World Championship Wrestling at Spring Break festivities.
She married Christopher Turner, a High School coach, in 2003. He filed for divorce in January, around the time of her indictment. Separated since 2004, the couple was already experiencing marital difficulties when Pamela's legal troubles came to light. A friend advised Chris not to marry Pamela, but to no avail. Georgia born and raised Pamela Rogers grew up around a morality impaired father, also a teacher and coach, who had his basketball coach's office adjoining the girl's locker room.