Wildcats: Shelley Dufresne, Rachel Respess & the Seduction of a Student

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Thirty two year old Shelley Dufrain seemingly
had it all. The beautiful blond English

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teacher at Destrahan High School in Saint
Charles Parish, Louisiana, was a married

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mother of three, had a fledging
career, and was the daughter of a

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prominent judge. Her life, on
the surface was your typical fairytale. That

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is, until September twenty ninth,
twenty fourteen, Shelley Duframe was arrested after

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an inappropriate relationship with a sixteen year
old student was reported to police. Then

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a day later, Shelley was arrested
again along with fellow teacher Rachel Respus,

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after an alleged passion fueled threesome with
that same student surfaced. Welcome to Exposed,

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scandalous files of the elite Wildcats English
teachers Shelley Duframe and Rachel Restus in

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the seduction of a student. Welcome
back to Exposed. I'm your host,

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this podcast. So I got a
hell of a story to tell y'all today,

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and this incident took place in Destrahan, Louisiana. Now, Destrahan's a

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small town. It's around twelve thousand
residents and it's located in Saint Charles Parish.

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And Destrahan is really a small suburb
just outside of New Orleans, JAW.

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It's only about eight miles from the
New Orleans Airport. Destrahan High School

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is the premier public school in Destrahanna
and it's known really for its football team.

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It's competed in won a ton of
state titles. Now, there were

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two English teachers at Desterrahan High School
in twenty fourteen, and that I guess

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you could call those our main characters
if you will, in this story,

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one of those being Shelley duframe and
the other being Rachel Respis. So to

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tell you a little about Shelley Dufrain. At the time of this incident in

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twenty fourteen, she was thirty two
years old and just a striking woman,

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beautiful blond hair, great smile,
and she taught English. Three. She

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was married, and she had three
young children, two sons and a daughter,

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all under the age of eight,
and she grew up rather privileged.

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Her dad was a judge, and
at the time of the incident I'm going

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to tell you about he was a
senior judge in Saint Charles Parish. She

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was very well known. She was
very well liked, not only in the

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city of Destraham, but throughout the
parish of Saint Charles, and especially well

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known and liked at Destrahant High School, where she not only taught for the

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past ten years leading up to this
incident, but she also attended and graduated

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from Destrahant High School in the year
two thousand, some fourteen years prior to

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this incident. And the other main
character, if you will, in this

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story, is a woman by the
name of Rachel Respus. Now, Rachel

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was much younger than Shelley. She
was just twenty four but really just as

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beautiful, and taught English to at
Destrahant High School and was only in her

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second year of teaching. Rachel was
not married, she didn't have any children,

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and she was also well known in
the area and at the school,

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having also graduated from Destrahane High School. Now, during my research, I

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actually came across an article that said
Rachel Restles was one of Shelley D.

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Frame's students at Destrahan during Shelley's earlier
years of teaching, but I was unable

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to confirm that, so take it
with a grain of salt. But if

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that's true, that just adds a
whole new layer of crazy to this case.

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So on Tuesday, September thirtieth,
twenty fourteen, everything changes for Shelley

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do Frame police come to a residence
with an arrest warrant and she is arrested

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for one count of carnal knowledge of
a juvenile. Now, according to the

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arrest warrant, school officials contacted police
the prior Friday and reported that a student

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was ring to other students at the
school that he was having a sexual relationship

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with teachers plural, y'all, with
an s teachers. Now, the student

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had told several stories, we'll call
him that for now, and in one

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of these stories, he said he
had sex with Dufrain in early September in

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the town of Months, which is
a very small town, not even a

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city, near Destrahan High School.
Now, keep in mind he's telling this

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to other classmates. He's not telling
this to teachers or to the principle or

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to the police. But as kids
do, they talk right And me,

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this is a beautiful woman. You
know, I was in high school once

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and sixteen years old once and hormones
of raging and everything else at that time

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of year life. And if a
beautiful teacher like this was showing interest in

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me, it would have blew my
mind. And on the other side of

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that, you know, igh school
students they make stuff up sometimes to make

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themselves sound bigger than they actually are. So rumors you have to investigate and

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Apparently that's what the police did,
and that's why Shelley do Frame was arrested.

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So Shelley is brought to jail at
around six pm that Tuesday, and

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by seven pm that Tuesday, she
had bonded out on a two hundred thousand

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dollars bond, which she actually posted
ten thousand dollars cash and the rest was

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a property bond, so she put
up a house or house or something to

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make the rest of that bond,
which I would suspect due to the speed

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of that. She was only there
about an hour when she was arrested and

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released. Probably indicates that her father, being a high ranking judge in the

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parish. I'm sure he knew about
this. I don't have any direct knowledge

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of that, but maybe someone gave
him a heads up, if you will,

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and he arranged all of this in
advance. It was a quick amount

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of time for her to be kind
of in and out of that jail.

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I don't have any evidence of it, but it's just a feeling I have.

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Then the very next day, on
Wednesday, Shelley do Frame gets rusted

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again, but this time Rachel Respass
gets arrested also, and both are charged

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with one count of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor in one count of

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carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Now, before I go any further, it's

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important to understand and grasp this.
There are now two different arrests. There's

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two different cases. Right, one
of these cases involves only Shelley do Frame

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and one of these cases involves both
Shelley do Frame and Rachel Respass. So

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on that Wednesday, which would be
October one of twenty fourteen, both were

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brought to jail. Do Frame bails
out on a seven thousand dollars cash bond

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that night, and Restless bails out
on a seven thousand dollars cash bond the

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following morning. Now, one of
the bond stipulations was that dow Frame had

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to be placed on house arrest after
leaving jail, so she couldn't leave the

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house. Once she left jail,
she was stuck there until her trial.

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Now, as you would imagine,
total shock and sued on the community of

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Destrahand and everyone was talking about it. Police did say it was a free

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way with Doframe and resp specifically that
the student and apparently very popular Destrahan High

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School football player was bragging about to
other students, and that it was other

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students that informed school officials, who
then informed the police. Both of these

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women they were facing some serious charges
due to the student being sixteen years old.

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The legal age of consent in Louisiana
is seventeen years old. And actually

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with those charges, if you added
them all up, that's like seventeen and

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a half years in prison. So
some serious repercussions they're facing now, according

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to police at the time, on
September twelfth of twenty fourteen, after the

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team played in a high school football
game. And how's this the team he

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played against that night. The mascot's
name the Cougars. You can't make that

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up, y'all, the Cougars.
So Duframe enticed the boy after that game

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to ribe with her to Rachel restless
apartment for a threesome. Allegedly, the

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police report said that Respus was aware
of the plan, and the report also

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alleged that while Restless was having intercourse
with the boy, do Frame began kissing

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Restless intimately in an effort to arouse
all parties involved in that they were all

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completely naked. So on October third, just a few days from the arrest,

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as you would expect, two judges
in Saint Charles Parish. They accused

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themselves from that case, being that
Duframe's dad was a judge and both of

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these judges they had a close working
relationship with him. That was the right

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thing to do, So a judge
was brought in from another parish to oversee

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the trial aspect of this case.
Now, shortly after the arrest of the

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two teachers, rumors start circulating regarding
the existence of a video coroborating the story

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the student was bragging about to his
friends and police they start investigating those rumors

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and they actually confiscate two cell phones
from two different students at that school.

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Now, this is a big story
in a small town, right and of

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course it takes some time to investigate
by a police. Remember, Doufrain's dad

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is a senior judge in that parish. So I guarantee you the police do

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not want to fuck this up.
They know that they are going to be

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watched and every single thing they do, one little slip up, is going

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to cost them the case. So
life goes on. They're investigating, and

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on January tenth of twenty fifteen,
Rachel Respass, attorney reiterates that Respus denies

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sex with the students and professes her
innocence In an article to The Times,

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picky you newspaper. That's the New
Orleans newspaper, and it said. The

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attorney for Rachel Respis, one of
the two Destrahan High School teachers accused of

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having group sex with a six sixteen
year old student, reiterated her innocence of

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crime, saying cryptically that she didn't
have consensual sex with that boy. Her

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attorney, Jeffrey Smith, would not
elaborate to a reporter, saying it's up

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to your imagination what that means.
Authorities have said. The boy, who

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was a student of Respus and a
former student of co defendent Shelley Duffrain,

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told investigators he had sex with both
teachers at restless apartment in Kenner. Kenner,

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y'all is a suburb of New Orleans
as well. Both women were booked

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with carnal knowledge of a juvenile,
in decent behavior with a juvenile, and

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contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. So after they booked them, they

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stacked charges is what they call that. They added more charges to them.

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Smith had proclaimed his clients innocence shortly
after his arrest, and he said Friday

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that he stands by the statement and
will fight any charges should prosecutors accept the

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police case. He shook his head
and be musement that Respus twenty four was

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arrested for allegedly having sex with a
now eight nearly eighteen year old who Smith

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described as looking like a professional football
player. The boy, considered a minor

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under state law, has not been
publicly identified. And I submit to you

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before I continue on with this article, that it really doesn't matter what he

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looks like. If he looks like
a grown ass man and he's sixteen,

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it doesn't matter that he looks like
a grown ass man. There's young ladies

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out there sixteen that look like they're
twenty four that you know, flipped that

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script a little bit. That's kind
of a bullshit answer. Smith said he

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talked with Restpus weekly and described her
as a bright young woman. He said

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she is devastated by the arrest,
but she's doing okay. His comments came

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after a status hearing lasting less than
five minutes in a Jefferson Parish courthouse.

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Smith was told that the the District
Attorney's office was still revealing the case and

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not decided what if any charges would
be filed against the client. So let

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me take that for you. You
can get arrested and not actually tried for

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anything. Just because you're arrested doesn't
mean you're going to court. You get

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arrested and then the district attorney looks
over the case and they decide if they're

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going to bring charges. So right
now, at least for this case,

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Rachel Rests as well as Duframe,
they're kind of in limbo. The district

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attorney's still trying to decide if he
wants to bring charges now this far along.

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I mean it's January tenth. They
were to arrested at the end of

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September. I also submit to you
that that is because of DW Frame's dad

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being a judge. I mean,
that's not common that you go that long

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without charges being brought. And he
mentioned the status hearing, and indeed that

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hearing did take place on March fifth
of twenty fifteen, and the next day,

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on March six, another article ran
in The Times Peaky un referencing what

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happened in that status hearing, and
it said Rachel Respus, one of the

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two former Destrahant High School teachers accused
of having sex with a sixteen year old

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must wait longer in legal limbo before
she learns what's to become of her criminal

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case. Respus was booked October first
with carnal knowledge of a juvenile in decent

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behavior and contributing to the delinquency of
a juvenile. She had a status hearing

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on Thursday, but Assistant DA Brian
Villalobos had no new information. Respus,

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who was not required to appear in
court, was given another date of April

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thirty, ath fort status hearing.
Now we're into March sixth of twenty fifteen,

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and charges still haven't been brought from
the DA. They're still investigating that

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case now. While the DA was
trying to figure out what to do in

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the threesome case, if you'll remember, Shelley Dufran had some answering to do

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in her individual case that she was
arrested for. So on April ninth of

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twenty fifteen, she answered for that
and many other things. And so I'm

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going to reference the Times picking un
again. They did a great job of

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covering the details on that, and
the headline on that says Destrahan High School

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teacher Shelley Duframe and mints sex with
student and this was April ninth of twenty

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fifteen. Former Destrahan High School teacher
Shelley Duframe pled guilty to obscenity, admitting

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in court that she had sex with
sixteen year old student. The plea let

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her and the student avoid a public
trial and allows her to bypass registering as

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a sex offender and serving three years
in prison. She must spend ninety days

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in an impatient mental health facility,
served three years of active probation, and

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pay a one thousand dollars fine.
If she fails to complete the court approved

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mental health program by the end of
August, she must report to the Saint

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Charles Parish Jail September first to serve
any days for which she has not received

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credit. This from Judge Anne Simon
during the plea hearing at a Hanville courthouse.

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Dufrain also agreed to surrender her teaching
license. With the parents of her

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former students sitting in the front row
of the courtroom. Dufrain admitted to having

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consensual sex with the juvenile as detailed
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true? The judge asked duframe Yes, ma'am, she replied. Dufran left

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the courthouse at eleven thirty five am
with her mother. She and her attorney,

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Dm. Williams would not comment to
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His mother appeared angry as she stared
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They were accompanied by an attorney who
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Dufrane, at, thirty two year
old Monts residents, who is married and

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has three children, was one of
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of on charges of having sex with
the same student. Their arrest touched off

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a flurry of gossip and speculation in
Desterhand and online, particularly over the notion

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of women in authority positions seducing or
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for inappropriate teacher student relationships. Her
plea came during a status hearing in the

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twenty ninth Judicial District. It was
accepted by the judge, the retired jurist

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whom the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed to
handle the case. After the three local

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judges, including Dufran's father, stepped
aside. Authority say Dufran and the male

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student had sex between August twenty second
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monts They have not specified the date
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Doufrain's house. Her initial charge,
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According to the plea agreement that her
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Attorney's office filed a new bill of
information charging her with the additional offense of

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obscenity. She pleaded guilty to obscenity
and simon deferred a three year prison sentence

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on the colonel knowledge charge. If
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obscenity, prosecutors will dismiss the colonel
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who was in court during the plea
hearing, released a statement. He said,

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I want to thank my special prosecutor
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resolution of this case, and he
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Colonel Knowledge cared a potential ten year
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offender if deframe breaks the rules of
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that cornal knowledge offense. Chase On
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they expressed their support for resolution of
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in discussing the plea agreement, said
she was advised that the usual treatment for

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first time offenders in Saint Charles Parish
is what they are doing these play agreements.

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Since prosecutors filed a carnal knowledge charge
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several status hearings. However, in
recent weeks there have been rumblings behind the

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scenes that the plea discussions were underway. The report indicates that the women consumed

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alcohol, but doesn't say how much
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whether a student consumed alcohol or identify
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the time and a sex crime victim, so they don't identify those juveniles.

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Investigators did say the boy had consented
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minor in the general age of consent
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law, cannot consent to sex.
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at the time of the Kenner or
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someone had recorded video activity on the
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test of a phone have never been
made public. So to some all that

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up do frame on that first trial
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They did a plea agreement, so
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plead to obscenity, you're not going
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not going to have to register as
a sex offender. That's a sweetheart deal

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for this case. She pretty much
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pay a lot of money, and
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things like that. She had to
go to a mental health facility and do

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some things. But she got a
sweetheart deal on that. So that case

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is over, and that was the
judge's ruling. Now, all of those

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stipulations that he put in place,
those had to be followed to the tea

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or she would have to serve time
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twenty fifteen, she agrees to that
play agreement and she's good to go on

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that case now. So pretty much
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Saint Charles Parish district attorney still could
not make up his mind on whether to

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charge these teachers in that whole threesome
incident. Now, why do you think

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that is? I have my thoughts, But what do you think knowing what

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you already know about this case?
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every year after their arrest, both
teachers are finally formally charged, all

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they differently. Shelley Dwframe was charged
with two counts of carnal knowledge of a

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juvenile and Rachel Respis was charged with
one count of failure to report the commission

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of certain felonies. And that's huge
for her. It basically means the district

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attorney did not believe or did not
have enough evidence to prosecute her regarding the

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story the team was telling his friends
at school about having a threesome, but

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it does mean that Respus had direct
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the teen and did not report it. So on December twenty second of twenty

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fifteen, Respus goes to court on
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she pleaded not guilty, as did
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on May one of twenty sixteen,
a very detailed civil lawsuit is filed by

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the parents of that teen and man
is it detailed. I'm going to read

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you the article from the Batnerange Advocate. They did a great job of breaking

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down that civil suit, and it
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moved in fast. From the first
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year. She targeted a sixteen year
old boy in her English class, flirting

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with him every day. When he
got sick and he had to stay home,

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she contacted him on social media.
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appeared she was trying to determine if
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it was to establish a close personal
and emotional relationship with the student. That

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civil suit alleged soon she was sleeping
with the student. Yall ready for this

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more than forty times in thirty six
days. Those are among these new allegations

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in a previously unreported lawsuit filed by
the student and his parents against Dufrayne,

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fellow teacher Rachel Ruspis, and the
Saint Charles Parish Public School system. It

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was filed on August eleventh and amended
February twenty fifth of twenty sixteen. The

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suit is pending in twenty nine Judicial
District Court. In the related criminal case,

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Dufrain admitted to having sex with the
student. Police said it happened at

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a home in monts where Dufrain and
married mother of three lived. Dufrain is

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also charged in depending criminal case in
Jefferson Parish for having sex with the student

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at Restpas apartment in Kentner. Respus
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and both have pleaded not guilty.
The lawsuit adds details, although unproven,

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to the criminal cases. It says
Duframe treated the boy as her favorite

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in class, encouraging him to believe
that responding to Miss Duframe's attention and advances

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would impact his grades. To cement
the relationship, she offered to take him

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home from football practices and games.
Only two or three weeks into the term,

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The suit said Duframe kissed the student
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and then they began having sex August
twenty second of twenty fourteen that continued through

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September twenty seventh, more than forty
times. In all. Respus had learned

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of the improper relationship, but did
not report it to authorities or try to

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protect the victim. The suit said, instead, she offered up her apartment

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in Kenner for sex after a football
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According to the student. Police say
the teachers engage in group sex with the

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student at Restless apartment. Although police
book with a sex crime, prosecutors did

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not file one against her. Both
teachers were arrested in October twenty fourteen after

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the crimes became public. The suit
said Deframe made disparaging comments about the victim

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to third parties on social media,
causing him embarrassment in humiliation, and in

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that petition it actually had a section
where it said that when fellow teacher Rachel

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Ruspis found out about the relationship,
she did not turn over the coworker and

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in fact offered to let her use
restus kinner apartment. And that was new

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news for me Up until that point, I thought that that threesome was kind

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of a spurt of the moment thing. According to this suit, anyway,

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supposedly Respus found out and said,
hey, you can use my apartment to

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have sex with him, and maybe
I'll join in that kind of thing.

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So that suit comes out and everybody's
eyeballs poke out, especially at the forty

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times in thirty six days. That's
more than once a day. So Shelley

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Duframe she fires back just seven days
after that suit, and she responds and

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accuses the team of bragging about those
relations on social media and attempting to blackmail

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her in return for preferential treatment in
better grades. She claimed the student intentionally

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and voluntarily posted details about the incidents
on social media, including tweets and retweets

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on Twitter, in an attempt to
raise his popularity throughout school. Dufrein also

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maintained the student removed his genitals from
his clothing and placed them on the face

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of a defendant as she slept,
and she didn't say if that was her

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or re Respuss, but you're going
to find out later on. Then recorded

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photos and videos of the act on
his cell phone. He then showed those

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recordings to members of the Destrahan football
team. Dufrain said she intended to request

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the student be transferred from her English
class to another class in September of twenty

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fourteen, at which time the student
replied that she better not which to her

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insinuated retaliation so, she said he
made it clear that he expected favoritism,

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good grades, an exemption from certain
class projects and assignments in return for not

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making certain allegations public. Finally,
on April twenty fifth of twenty seventeen,

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nearly three years after the incident,
the trial starts in Shelley Duframe's trial was

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up. First, the team in
the case took the stand, and what

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he claimed is riveting, to say
the least. During his testimony, he

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admitted to secretly recording one of the
women sleeping after sex as proof to show

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his fellow football players, and that
was Rachel Respishaw. He said the month

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long affair began with a Facebook message
from dew Frame after the team was out

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sick one day in August of twenty
fourteen, and quickly progressed to the student

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and teacher kissing in the classroom within
days later. On that night was the

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first time that Shelley and I had
intercourse, he sat in court when discussing

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the first time they had sex.
The teen said Duframe picked the team up

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from his home in Destrahan after a
football scrimmage. He testified that the teacher

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drove to an isolated location behind a
Daker shop and they had sex. A

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day later, she messaged the teen
with the text good morning Sexy. He

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then said Duframe coordinated these sexual meetups
using a fake Facebook profile under the name

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get this shall Madison, Mexicano,
complete with an image of a cartoon character

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Speedy Gonzales as the profile image.
The cover photo also included the phrase you

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ready for this? I love Mexican
boys, a reference to the teen,

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so he was obviously Latino. The
teen said he didn't appreciate the reference,

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however, since he is half Columbian
and half Caucasian. The team provided in

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court a list of places where he
met Duframe to have sex, including her

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house in monts inside her Honda Pilot
suv, in multiple parking lots, and

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even in a shed at a friend's
house. He said the relationship culminated with

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a threesome with another former Destrahan High
School English teacher, Rachel Respis, at

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her apartment in Kenner. All three
of us were in bed together, The

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team told the court, we all
started having sex. The teen also said

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he recorded video of Raspus while she
slept after the threesome, and admitted the

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court that his genitals could be seen
in the footage. It was kind of

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like proof, he testified, adding
that he should she showed the video to

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some of his teammates on the high
school football team. I told him about

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it, but they didn't believe me, so I wanted to get video proof.

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Defense attorneys then cross examined the team, and, in a kind of

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a ballsy move in my opinion,
they accused the team of committing a crime

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himself by recording himself touching Raspus as
she slept and later showing that video to

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his teammates, eh kind of victim
blaming there. They also accused the teen

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of not being truthful about his relationship
with Deframe, questioning the exact date of

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their sexual relationship and arguing that the
dates and locations provided to authorities were not

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correct. Defense attorneys claimed that the
thresome didn't even occur because the team told

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authorities he could not get an erection, acclaim. The team denied. Investigators

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were unable to recover the video of
Raspus sleeping because the teen admitted to deleting

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it, as well as other photos
and text messages. He did so,

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according to the defense, because he
knew what he was doing was illegal.

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You know it's a crime to video
someone without the permission, they said.

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The defense then hammered the team on
the fact that he threatened Duframe at any

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moment, I can expose this and
you can go to jail and you'll lose

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your life. As you know it
that the defense claimed. The teen said,

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and the lead video of Respus,
according to the defense, was an

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act of revenge for a problem he
had in her class a year earlier.

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Regarding the night of the alleged three, some of the teen said he remembers

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do Frame and Respae were kissing,
they had given each other oral sex,

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and then I proceeded to have sex
with Shelley and that was it now.

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Saint Charles Parish Deputy Lieutenant Clint Patterson
also testified, and he said that the

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team took investigators to two locations in
Saint Charles Parish right after the last incident

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occurred, which was on the twenty
seventh, only three days before the arrest

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of do Frame. He took the
lieutenant to two locations where the lieutenant found

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gold Trojan condoms at both the rappers. He also claimed that Shelley offered to

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buy him a peal to help him
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So after a two day trial,
the verdict came in and what do

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y'all think? What do you think
happened? Guilty or not guilty? Well,

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here's that article from the Baton Rouge. Advocate Shelley do Frame not guilty

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in the Destrahan teacher sex trial.
A judge on April twenty sixth, twenty

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seventeen found former Destrahan High School teacher
Shelley Duframe not guilty of allegation she had

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sex with her sixteen year old English
student on two occasions in Jefferson Parish.

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Judge Danielle Taylor of the twenty fourth
Judicial District found du Frame not guilty of

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two counts of carnal knowledge of a
juvenile, citing lack of investigation by Jefferson

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Parish authorities and an untrustworthy main witness
the team at the center of the case.

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While Taylor felt it was likely that
something had occurred, prosecutors did not

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prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. I do not believe that the threshold

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has been met by the evidence presented
in this court, she said, later,

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noting the teen's braggadacious nature and his
propensity to lie created reasonable doubt.

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Dufray had waived a right to a
jury trial, so Taylor heard the case.

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Prosecutors have accused Duframe of bringing the
student to Jefferson Parish for a pair

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of encounters, part of a month
long sexual relationship that she carried out mostly

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in Saint Charles Parish during the late
summer of twenty fourteen. Duframe pleaded guilty

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September one of twenty fifteen in Saint
Charles Parish to a reduced charge of obscenity

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and admitting to having sex with the
team there. A judge sentenced her to

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a deferred three year prison term,
three years of probation, and a one

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thousand dollars fine. Jim Williams,
Duframe's defense attorney, said he felt Taylor

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made the correct decision. The entire
prosecution was based upon things that happened in

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Saint Charles Parish that she's already pleted
guilty to and admitted to. He said,

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they just didn't have a case here
in Jailjefferson Parish. Kim McElwee,

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Dufraan's defense attorney and a former prosecutor, took the case pro bono because she

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said she believed it should not have
come to court in Jefferson Parish. Yes,

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she's not innocent, McElwee said of
Duframe, she did these things.

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She had an improper relationship. She
broke the law and she should be punished.

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But there's a difference between innocent and
not guilty. They have to prove

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their case and they didn't come close. As a mother, Taylor said she

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understood the anguish of the victim's family. She too found Dufrain's behavior reprehensible,

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referring to the omissions of sex in
Saint Charles Parish. She betrayed a very

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basic public trust as a schoolteacher.
The judge should of Duframe. The violation

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caused public outrage, but the court, Taylor said, cannot be swayed by

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the emotion of the case and must
rule based on the law. Defense attorney,

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he said, argued the former student
was a bragger and a liar who

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concocted the tale of group sex with
Doframe and another Destrahan High School former teacher,

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Rachel Ruspras. The now nineteen year
old student in the case, took

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the witness stand with occasionally graphic testimony. He got on the witness stand,

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and he still lied about just about
everything. You can't see past that.

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Williams said that the team was not
on trial. Taylor said his credibility was

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critical to issues that the court had
to consider. The team's testimony during the

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trial apparently fueled Taylor's doubts about his
truthfulness. This coordinates for an absolute fact

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that the team was willing to lie
to the court, she said, noting

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how he told prosecutors he did not
wear watches during testimony about why he could

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not remember the exact dates and times
of the sexual encounters. At that moment,

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Taylor said she had in front of
hers acution's file Facebook messages and information,

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and there's a twenty six teen photo
of the team wearing a watch.

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Why lie about a watch? She
said. It's possible the team wanted to

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say what the prosecutor wanted him to
say, and that is a perilous position

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for him as a witness. This
court must wonder whether he gave other statements

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because people in authority wanted him to
do so. It's apparent that the team

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committed some criminal behavior himself, thus
assailed his character. The judge said she

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was referring to the defense assertion that
the team committed a crime when he used

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his cell phone to record video of
his genitals touching respers following the alleged group

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sex at her apartment. Well,
I submit to you that had Rustpus,

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had he not been in Ruspus's apartment, that couldn't have happened. So her

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crime led to his crime. And
I mean, come on, this kid

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was sixteen. That part. I
don't know why. It just sticks in

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my crawl a little bit. They
keep bringing that up. I get it

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that it's illegal for him to record
someone and they don't know about it.

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But at the same time, he
shouldn't even been in there, and he's

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a kid. I mean to me, the honest on that always falls on

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the adult. Defense attorneys said the
team also broke the law by showing the

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video to his football teammates. The
team, Taylor said, was not only

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a willing participant, but broach the
subject of sex. The teen, she

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said, seemed to enjoy having something
to hold over deframe. In additions to

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problems with the witness, Taylor said
prosecutors failed to present any coroborating evidence to

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bolster their claims of sex. In
Jefferson Parish, prosecutors admitted that Kenner Police

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did not investigate the case, relying
solely on information provided by the Saint Charles

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Parish Sheriff's office. No investigation whatsoever
took place in the parish of Jefferson,

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Taylor said. An investigation took place
in Saint Charles Parish. The collection of

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evidence took place in Saint Charles Parish. One would think if you wanted to

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prosecute a case in Jefferson Parish,
you'd expect an investigation in Jefferson Parish.

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Kenned police officials did not comment on
the case Wednesday evening. The team was

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not in the courtroom when Taylor rendered
the verdict, but his mother was in

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the front row and began crying after
the judge found Duframe not guilty. She

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could be heard crying in the hallway
as Duframe wiped tears from her eyes and

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embrace relatives inside that courtroom. The
teen's family is devastated by the verdict,

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said carlois Zelena, the attorney representing
them in a civil lawsuit against the Saint

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Charles Parish School System and Dufrain,
in a written statement. Jefferson Parish District

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Attorney Paul Connick Junior said, we
disagree with Judge Taylor's decision. We believe

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that our prosecution team proved beyond a
reasonable doubt the misdow Frame committed the crime

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of carnal knowledge of juvenile for sexual
involvement with this teenager at locations in Jefferson

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Parish. So that was that.
Shelley Dwframe is found not guilty on April

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twenty sixth of twenty seventeen. So
if she's not guilty, then commonsense says

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that if the threesome against Shelley Duframe
did not happen, then how can you

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find that it did happen in the
trial against Rachel rest Us. Well you

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can't. In less than two months
after the do Frame trial, on June

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sixteenth of twenty seventeen, the all
charges against Restus. So I think it's

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safe to say that the prosecutors in
this case no offense. But they got

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their ass kicked in this one,
plain and simple. So there it is.

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I told you this was one wild
case. And how about this?

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How about this for an absolute mind
blower. These two get arrested in September

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twenty fourteen, and right after their
arrest, another female teacher at the same

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high school, Destrahand High, starts
up a relationship with a tea that lasted

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almost a year before she was caught
in August of twenty fifteen. I'll be

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telling that story on an upcoming bonus
episode just for Patroon members. Y'all will

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not believe it. Talk about dumb, That's all I can say on that.

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Thank you so much for listening.
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