July 14, 2025

Bad Teachers: Pamela Rodgers Turner

Bad Teachers: Pamela Rodgers Turner

In this episode of “Bad Teachers” Jim Chapman brings you the story of Pamela Rodgers, better known under her former married name Pamela Rogers Turner, a former school physical education teacher and coach who taught in McMinnville, Tennessee and was arrested and convicted of acts involving a 13 year old student.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I'm your host Jim Chapman, and today I

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am bringing you the full story of bad teacher Pamela

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Rogers Turner. This is a bit different than what I

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normally bring you because while these teachers may be known

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inside of their community, Pamela Rogers was different. She was

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very well known, especially if you were a fan of

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professional wrestling for a time. So let's get into it

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and i'll explain that now. Pamela was born in July

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one of nineteen seventy seven, so as of this recording

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this point in time, she's forty eight years old. She

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was much younger when all this went down. She attended

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Clark Range High School. This was in Tennessee, and she

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was part of the Clark Range basketball team, the Lady Buffalo's,

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and she gained some local success during her time on

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that team with her dad, who was the head coach

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of that team, and she was obviously very athletic, especially

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when you grow up with a dad who's a coach. Now,

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she was also very popular, so much so that for

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her senior year prom she was actually picked as the

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prime Queen. So she graduates in nineteen ninety five, and

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subsequently she attends Tennessee Technological University as well as Cumberland University,

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and she played basketball for both of those colleges. Now,

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what is also interesting is also around that time, she

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was featured as Miss Nitro spring Break. Now, if you're

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not familiar WCW. Nitro was a major wrestling organization back

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in those days. It was owned by media mogul Ted Turner,

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and during those days it was huge. So to be

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selected as Miss Nitro was a big deal. Millions of

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people saw you on TV. She pranced out on a

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taping of Nitro. She had the rebin or whatever you

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call it, across her chest that said Miss Nitro. She

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was in a very scantily clad bikini and she was

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absolutely beautiful. Now a few years later, around two thousand

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and two, she also did some bikini modeling for various people,

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including advertisements for Harley Davidson. Also around that time, she

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married high school basketball coach Chris Turner. This was in

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two thousand and three, but the happiness of that marriage

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would not last very long, and they actually separated in

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two thousand and four due to difficulties in that marriage,

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and he actually filed for divorce in January of two

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thousand and five. Now there's a pretty shocking reason as

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to why, and that's what we're going to get into today.

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So in between her marriage and her divorce, Pamela becomes a.

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Pe teacher at a school.

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In mcminville, Tennessee, and it was there that her troubles

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began when on February fourth of two thousand and five,

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she gets arrested and she's charged with having a sexual

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relationship with a thirteen year old student. The relationship allegedly

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began somewhere in early November of two thousand and four

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when the student who was attending Rogers' basketball class began

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flirting with Rogers and he was making very sexual suggestions.

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And it's important to mention this is a thirteen year

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old kid. Rogers at this time was in the midst

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of a estranged marriage. Obviously they were having problems. As

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of this time, they weren't divorced yet, but according to

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other people, she seemed to enjoy the attention that she

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was getting out of this thirteen year old. I can't relate.

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Don't ask me why. It sounds absolutely crazy to me.

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So at some point they start talking via text, and

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the student's best friend was the one who kind of

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verified this. He said at one point, Rogers texted the

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student quote, I think you're cute, and according to this

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kid's best friend, he was excited about that, and he

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responds back to that text with I think you're hot.

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And from that point forward the relationship became sexual. Now

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the student, who at the time had a girlfriend who

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was the same age as him, thirteen, he gets into

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this relationship with Rogers and he actually breaks up with

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this thirteen year old girl to be with Rogers. Undoubtedly

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he didn't tell her that was the reason. And at

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some point shortly after the sexual relationship started, while the

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student's friend his bestie was visiting his school with another friend,

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they go see Rogers and Rogers actually reveals to the

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student's friend that she and the student did indeed have

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set while they were in the school gym. And I

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thought about this when I researched it, and it seemed

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to me there's a possibility, and I'm just speculating here.

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I have no direct knowledge of this, but a possibility.

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Maybe she was trying to groom this best friend as well,

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because why would you.

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Tell him now.

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At the time of all of this going down, Pamela

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Rogers was twenty eight years old, that student was thirteen,

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and she had been employed at that school for two years.

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So later on, the student's best friend, who was nineteen

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at this point, so it was much later on, he

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would detail the relationship from his eyes, and he said

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that it was Pamela that was throwing herself at his friend. Quote,

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he was a virgin, he never had sex. She was

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into him more than he was into her. It was

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her who was pursuing him. He went on to say

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that Pamela and the teen had intercourse in oral sex

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more than a dozen times. He said the encounters took

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place not only inside the home that Turner rented after

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her husband kicked her out, but also at the teenager's

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house and many times at the school. He said his

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friend was hardly an unwilling participant, however, quote, he loved

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every minute of it. He was a little pimp. He

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discussed Turner admitting to him that she was having sex

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with that thirteen year old, saying, quote, we were in

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the gym, and she asked me, did and he said,

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his friend's name, tell you we had sex. I said yes,

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and she said, well, I'm just confirming we did. He

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said he was shocked, but didn't say any more to

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Turner about the situation. He claimed that soon after, Turner

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began calling his friend five to six times a night,

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and he clarified that his friend would always tell him

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he was just having fun. Quote, he was in it

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for the sex. And incidentally, the thirteen year old's mother

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she also spoke out. She said the teachers stayed at

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their house a few times during this affair with her son.

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Pamela claimed her water heater was broken in her house

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and she was running nearby, and the mom said, quote,

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she was very charming and I had no reason not

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to trust her. But as in all student teacher relationships,

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eventually the word spreads like wildfire, and cops got an

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anonymous tip just three months into this relationship, and that's

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what led to Pamela's arrest. Now, some people were interviewed

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about the relationship that knew the student. The local news

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went out and this was big news locally, and they

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just are.

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Talking to people.

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And one of the guys that knew the team was

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a guy by the name of Billy Metteley. He was

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the owner of a diner which was across the street

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from that school, and he said the teen was no

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ordinary thirteen year old. Quote, he was probably shaving in

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the seventh grade. He's about five nine, and he hangs

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out with an older crowd. You wouldn't think he was thirteen.

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And all I have to say to that is that

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doesn't make a hill of fucking beans to me. He

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was still thirteen. She knew he was thirteen. I don't

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care if he looked thirty, but there's a point to

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me reading you that. And that is the double standard.

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Flip that on the other side, if it was a

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girl that was thirteen that looked like she was thirty

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and a guy teacher who was twenty eight was caught

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having sex with them many times, what do you think

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the reaction would be. You think people would say, well,

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she looked much older. Of course, not the boy's mom.

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After all this went down, she ended up pulling him

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out of school and said he'll only go back when

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and if he's ready. So Turner gets arrested and she

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makes her fifty thousand dollars. Mind now, following her rest,

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she's charged with a total of twenty eight criminal charges,

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including fifteen counts of sexual battery and thirteen counts of

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statutory rape. Police said the incidents took place at his home,

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at her apartment, and even at the school's gym on

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more than twelve different occasions. They were having sex in

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the freaking gym of the school.

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Now, I don't know.

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What the situation was in that school, but I can

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remember when I was in high school and when I

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was in the gym, anybody could walk in at any time.

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Just crazy. So it didn't take long for Pamela Rogers

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Turner as she was named at this time, to realize

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the mountain of evidence that police had here, and in

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August of two thousand and five, just six months after

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her rest, she takes a plea deal and she pleads

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no contest to own only four counts out of the

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twenty eight counts she was charged with. Now a no

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contest plea means Pamela was able to avoid admitting guilt

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and the other twenty four charges totally dismissed.

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Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York. It cannot be as crazy

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as the case I told you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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You know what, we should do a podcast.

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description of this podcast. So this chick essentially got away

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with this almost scott free. She did everything you could

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do sexually with this kid, many multiples of times. And

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he's thirteen years old, y'all. She only had to serve

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nine months in jail, followed by a seven year probationary period,

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and her terms of her probation includes surrendering her teaching

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certificate and registering as a sex offender for life, because

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sexual battery by an authority figure is considered a violent

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sexual offense under the state law of Tennessee.

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The sentence also prohibited her from profiting from the case

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through books and movies, and barred her from granting interviews

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for a period of eight year So let me tell

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you how sick this chick is. She serves her time

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in jail and you would think she was getting her

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life together. However, Rogers was arrested yet again on April

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twenty fourth of two thousand and six, on the grounds

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that she had sent text messages, new photos, and sex

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videos of herself to the same point while using her

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father's cell phone. She was also charged for communicating with

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the boy via blogs and a website, and the judge

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ordered Rogers this time to remain in jail until her

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next court here and on July fourteenth of two thousand

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and six, guess what she gets sentenced to seven years

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in prison for violating her probation by sending out those

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explicit videos and also maintaining contact with that victimia online blogs.

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Rogers, of course asked for mercy. She apologized to.

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Her family and the teens family. She even conjured up

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some tears and tearfully told the judge quote, I have

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humiliated myself.

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What I did was wrong.

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I'm willing to do anything to rehabilitate myself, and she

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asked for local incarceration with therapy. So the circuit court

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judge whose name was bart Stanley. He denies her request

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and he set back to her quote, you have done

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everything except show this court that you wanted to rehabilitate yourself.

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He revoked probation and he ordered her to start serving

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that sentence. So that has to be the end of this, right,

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Well not if you're Pamela while still in jail, Still

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in jail, serving out that seven years. Guess what, she

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is caught yet again sending the same freaking boy nude

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photos and the boy was reciprocating this, sending nud photos

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and videos.

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Back to her.

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Now, at this point in time, that boy was only

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fifteen years old.

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So it's back to court for.

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Pamela when she's caught doing this, and this time the

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defense even had a clinical psychologists testify. That psychologist said

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that Pamela was a sex addict, but the judge didn't

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give a shit. He summarily sentence Turner to an additional

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two years in jail, making her total time as of

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this point ten years in jail. But you know how

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this shit goes, She's not going to serve all that

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prison time. And on November twenty seventh of twenty twelve,

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after only serving six years in prison, she's released. So

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after this happens, you're probably thinking that's it.

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No more jail time for this lady. She's going on

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the straight and narrow, right. Hell No, Let's go to.

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June fourth of twenty fifteen when Pamela Rogers, which by

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this time no turner at the end of that name

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because she's divorced, she gets arrested yet again. And what

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do you think that is? Well, a contraband investigation that

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the Tennessee Department of Corrections led to this arrest. The

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investigation showed that she was involved in a scheme to

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smuggle cell phones into prison. Now this was the same prison,

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in fact, that she served time in several times initially.

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So it was back to prison again for Pamela Rogers,

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and this time she was sentenced to eight years in prison.

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And I believe she was released in twenty twenty four.

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I've tried to find some kind of confirmation of that,

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been pretty hard to get, but it looks it appears

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as though she's been in release. So time will tell

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if Pamela ends up back in prison at some point,

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but I would say there's probably a better than average shot,

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judging by her past and in a good example of

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the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. In July

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twenty seventeen, her brother Alvin Rogers was arrested on a

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rape charge involving a juvenile. Unfucking believable. And as I

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was researching all this, I came across an article that

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I want to read to you real fast because it

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did a really good job of explaining why I do

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these bad teachers series, And it pretty much nailed the

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bias here. And this was written on April seventeenth of

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two thousand and six, and it says teacher plea deal

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built on sex bias. The district attorney who reached a

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police settlement with ex teacher Pamela Rogers for having sex

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with a thirteen year old student says one reason he

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didn't want to try the case was that some men

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on the jury would not convict an attractive woman for

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having sex with a teenage boy. District Attorney General Dal

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Potter said he was concerned that some male jurors might

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not convict Rogers, a former Warren County Grade school teacher,

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because they wouldn't view what the attractive twenty eight year

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old woman did as having harmed the boy quote. The

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fact that I could not get a jury of all

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women played a heavy factor in my decision not to

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go to trial. Obviously, a defense attorney would not allow

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a prosecutor to have all women on a jury. Potter

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goes on to say, there's a segment of men that

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would say the victim wasn't harmed but instead got lucky.

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You can have a horrible case, but if it appeals

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to that jury, it can be difficult. The societal double

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standard and the fact that the family of the boy

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preferred not to go through a trial where the two

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main factors in his decision to settle the case. Potter said.

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Rogers pleaded no contest in August to four counts of

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sexual battery by an authority. Figure served about six months

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in county jail and was released early for good behavior

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in February. Now less than two months after her release,

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Rogers finds herself back in trouble on allegations of violating

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the terms of her probation, and Potter is facing another

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round of second guessing for not taking Rogers to trial.

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He said he remains convinced the decision was the right one.

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The double standard on such sex offense cases exists nationally

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for a number of reasons that from David Rabin, a

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defense attorney and former prosecutor, male victims tend to be

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more embarrassed about coming forward and testifying in such cases. Also,

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some jurors would consider an adult male having an affair

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with a girl as much more harmful to a woman

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than a woman having sex with a boy. Absolutely, there's

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a significant disparity of treatment in the way the criminal

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justice system handles these things. Rayburn said. Unfortunately, there's a

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double standard because there is a double standard in society.

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The district Attorney, Potter said another factor, although a lesser one,

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in his decision to avoid trial last year, was what

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he said would have been immedia's circus that could have

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also affected the outcome of the trial. The case has

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drawn national attention, with photos of the attractive blonde ex

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teacher broadcast on TV and posted on internet websites. Under

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the plea agreement, Rogers was allowed to avoid prison and

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instead served nine months in the Warren County Jail with

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the remainder of the eight year sentence as probation. But

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a probation came with a number of conditions, including not

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using the internet, without permission and not having contact with

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the boy of his family.

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Violating those rules.

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Could send her to prison to serve out or senate.

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Rogers was arrested last Tuesday on seven counts of probation violations,

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all of them centered around her use of the Internet.

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She is accused of setting up a personal web page

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and using it to post messages to the boys. She

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also had an internet communication with the boy's teenage sister,

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Authority say and authorities are investigating so whether Rogers tried

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to make contact that would have violated her probation by

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other means, perhaps by telephone. Potter would not say whom

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the contact may have been with, but said he's not

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surprised Rogers is in trouble again. Quote, we were taking

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a chance she would mess up. Every time you put

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someone on probation, you do it with the idea there's

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a good chance they will. Potter said he sought the

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maximum probation period last year and will ask a judge

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at a July hearing to have Rogers serve out or

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sentence in state prisent. Rogers' attorney said last week he's

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very concerned about the charges against his client. Quote, the

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state has a much lower burden of prove to establish

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a probation violation. The consequences for a probation violation could

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be grave. He added, it was much too early to

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comment about specific charges.

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So there you have that. That was written in two.

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Thousand and six by Nashville TN Law dot com. And y'all,

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that is a double standard that still exists today, which

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is exactly why I do this series. All right, quickly,

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some information that was kind of breaking on Seawn Conbes

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in the last week or so. Number one, his sentencing

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has been set. It is October third, twenty twenty five,

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so of course I will bring you the update on that,

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and also wanted to reference this is a pretty crazy article.

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It's very short, but I wanted to reference it for you.

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I found it interesting. It headlined did he receives standing

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ovation from fellow inmates after jury found rapper not guilty

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on rico charges. Seawan Combes reportedly received a standing ovation

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from his fellow inmates after being acquitted on the most

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serious charges brought against him ten months ago. After hearing

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seven weeks of testimony from prosecution witnesses. Did He's jury

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returned three not guilty verdicts? The group of twelve originally

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announced they were deadlocked on racketeering conspiracy charges, but later

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chose to acquit the rapper. Did He return to a

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standing ovation at md C Brooklyn after the verdicts were read.

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According to his defense lawyer Mark agnafillo I said quote,

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maybe it's your fate in life to be the guy

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who wins. He added, they need to see someone that

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can win. I think he took that to heart. The

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jury found did he not guilty of racketeering conspiracy in

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sex trafficking On July second, he was found guilty on

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two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and could

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be sentenced to twenty years in prison. Don't bet on that,

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as each count carries a ten year maximum. Hours after

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the verdict we read in court, the judge denied Ditty's

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request for bail. The federal judge pointed to Ditty's violence,

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including the hotel attack on his ex girlfriend Cassie, as

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reasoning for his decision to keep the rapper behind bars.

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He will remain behind bars until a sentencing hearing, which

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is proposed to be held on October third. The prosecution

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suggested four to five years for Combe's sentence. According to

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Ditty's defense lawyer, did he will re enter a program

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for domestic batterers. I bet after he is freed. He

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had began the program shortly before his arrest in September

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twenty twenty four. I personally believe that was because of

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optics and Agnaphilla also assured the AP in all of

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you that he's doing okay. Quote he burns hot in

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all matters. I think what he has come to see

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is that he has these flaws and there's no amount

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of fame and no amount of fortune that can erase them.

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You can't cover them up, his attorney said, So there's

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your quick did he update? Thank you so much for listening.

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