N.C. Teacher, 30, Charged in Lesbian Sexual Affair With Female Student, 17

Posted on | March 4, 2016 | 117 Comments

Police in Fayetteville, N.C., say Laura Garrigus, 30, had sex with a 17-year-old girl who was her student at Cumberland International Early College on the campus of Fayetteville State University. Garrigus, a married mother of three, is charged with four counts of taking indecent liberties with a student and two counts of sexual offense with a student:

Each of the counts represent a different sexual encounter between October and December, investigators said. . . .
Despite the alleged victim’s age, and regardless of consent, under state law, students and teachers may not engage in inappropriate relationships. Investigators said Monday that evidence in this case does point toward consent.
“I would say that based in the fact that from October to December that this happened, it went two months without being reported, they had known each other prior… I would (be) led to believe that it’s a consensual,” [Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Sean] Swain said. . . .
Should Garrigus make bail, she will not be able to have contact with any children younger than 18, including her own, until the matter has been resolved in the court system. The instructions made Garrigus visibly disturbed.
“Do you understand that?” asked District Court Judge Cheri Siler-Mack, after she read the directive.
“Not even my own children?” Garrigus asked.
“You will not be around any child under the age of 18,” Siler-Mack repeated.

Garrigus is married to a police officer, Heavy.com reports, and her Facebook page included numerous references to Bible verses. Her arrest is the latest in several recent cases nationwide.

Kimberly Naquin

Kimberly Naquin, 26, was arrested Jan. 15 after it was learned that the high school geography teacher had sexually molested a teenage student, according to police in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Naquin had sex with the girl on at least 10 occasions over the course of nearly a year beginning in September 2014 when the girl was 16, police said.

Johnna Feazell

In December, former Missouri teacher Johnna Feazell, 48, was sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually molesting a 16-year-old girl she had known since the student was in seventh grade. Feazell, who had coached sports at a Webster County junior high school, was also convicted of tampering with evidence.

Tiffany Howard

In December, police in Austin, Texas, arrested former Bowie High School teacher Tiffany Howard, 41, on charges that she sexually molested a girl during a three-year period that began when the victim was 13. Howard had coached the girl in seventh grade.

In June 2015, former high school teacher and swim coach Leah Eames, 33, was sentenced to 30 months probation in Illinois after she pleaded guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old girl she coached.
In May 2015, a Michigan judge sentenced Erin Katharine MacDonald to a year in jail after the former Grant High School science teacher pleaded guilty to having sex with a teenage student.
In April 2015, Texas officials arrested Heather Lynn Packwood, 25, on charges that she sexually molested a girl who was a student at New Braunfels Christian Academy.
Meghan Colleen Daugherty, 36, was charged in February 2015 with criminal sexual conduct with a minor in South Carolina. The arrest warrant said the Hillcrest Middle School physical education teacher committed sexual battery on a 14-year-old girl.
Geraldine Alcorn, 28, was arrested in March 2015 in Pittsburgh after police say she became obsessed with an 11-year-old student at Beechwood Elementary School, where Alcorn was a pre-kindergarten teacher.
Shakyla Wilson, 22, was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse after police in Naperville, Illinois, say she had sexual contact in February 2015 with a 14-year-old girl from Hill Middle School, where Wilson was volunteering as a girls basketball coach.
High school dance teacher Michelle Smith White, 37, of Durham, N.C., was charged in October 2014 with having sex with a 16-year-old female student. Police said White had the student’s name and initials tattooed on her body.
Dance teacher Sabrina Epps, 19, was arrested in October 2014 after police say she admitted having lesbian sex with a 14-year-old girl who was a student at the Tennessee studio where Epps taught.
Gaile Supp, 25, pleaded guilty in September 2014 to sexual battery, a third-degree felony. A former teacher at Clearfield High School in Utah, Supp had originally been charged with object rape, a first-degree felony, in April 2013 for allegedly committing a sexual act on an unwilling 17-year-old female student at her West Haven home.
California teacher Rebecca Eileen Diebolt, 35, was arrested in June 2014 after a woman told police that she and Diebolt had a four-year sexual relationship that began in 2004, when the victim was 15 and Diebolt was her language arts teacher and swim/water polo coach.
Dance teacher Nichol Marie Phelps, 30, was sentenced to prison in June 2014 after she pleaded guilty to having lesbian sex with a 15-year-old student at the Florida academy where Phelps taught.
Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, was charged with 16 felony counts in February 2014 after two former female students accused her of sexually molesting them. One accuser said Cardosa started having sex with her when she was only 12.
Tonya Drueppel was arrested in January 2014 on charges that she had sex with a middle-school girl beginning in October 2012, when the victim was 13.
Amanda Michelle Feenstra, 32, pleaded guilty in October 2013 to having sex with a 17-year-old girl who was a student at the Texas high school where Feenstra was a dance teacher.
Kelly O’Rourke, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2013 for having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
Linda Wallace was sentenced to prison in September 2013 after pleading guilty to having had a four-year sexual affair with a female student that began when the girl was 13.
Nicole Wooten was arrested in February 2013 on charges that she had sex with a girl in 2005 and 2006, when the victim was a 12-year-old eighth-grader.

But it’s not like there’s a trend here or anything . . .

Category: Crime, Education, Gays

Comments

117 Responses to “N.C. Teacher, 30, Charged in Lesbian Sexual Affair With Female Student, 17”

Dana
March 4th, 2016 @ 10:07 am

Mrs Garrigus was simply helping the student, providing her with early, individualized sex education in non-majority sexual orientation activity. This wasn’t anything wrong, but simply helping the student understand the diverse nature of sexuality of which the teacher’s union so strongly approves.
CrustyB
March 4th, 2016 @ 12:57 pm

Murderers who picked up victims in Chicago:

Leopold & Loeb
Richard Speck
John Wayne Gacy
Andrew Cunanan
Jeffrey Dahmer

All of them were homosexuals, despite being only 1.5% of the population. But it’s not like there’s a trend here or anything . . ..
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 1:58 pm

Perhaps we could just say stuff happens and individuals need to be held responsible.

The trends argument is the same justification that the RadFems use against males in general. You can pick and choose bad examples and ignore the good examples. That way, you never need to talk about individuals, it’s about trends and statistics and who is the greater “danger to the community.”

Why is it better when conservatives use that justification against whatever Label X is this week?

Until and unless you can show that all of Label X engages in Action Y AND no one who is Not Label X engages in Action Y, the argument falls down. Which means maybe, just maybe we should look at something other than the label.
DeadMessenger
March 4th, 2016 @ 2:04 pm

Totally coincidental. And if not coincidental, these poor men were obviously triggered by what clearly must’ve been the conservative viewpoints of the so-called “victims”, who were simply injured accidentally during the course of consensual sexual activity.

In fact, you’re clearly an intolerent, undiverse white-supremacist patriarchal rapist for even mentioning this. It is you who are a danger to society. Do you have a Twitter accout? Well, not anymore, you don’t.
DeadMessenger
March 4th, 2016 @ 2:19 pm

This isn’t trends and statistics, it’s examples of stupid behaviors that ought to serve as a warning to people, so that they appropriately manage their choices and avoid risky, unlawful behaviors. For example, teachers who abuse their authority by engaging in sexual activity with students, whether consensual or not.

I’d like to think that potential abusers of authority might see examples like this and think twice.
Wombat_socho
March 4th, 2016 @ 2:28 pm

#notallmurderers 🙂
robertstacymccain
March 4th, 2016 @ 2:43 pm

Politically incorrect news — reports of events that in some way contradict the liberal media narrative — is a favorite subject of mine. It is impossible to know whether or not lesbian teachers molesting their students is actually a trend. However, none of these stories are ever going to be on CNN, are they? Certainly not. The liberal narrative is that all crime is committed by white heterosexual men.
concern00
March 4th, 2016 @ 3:07 pm

#statutoryrapeculture

I happened to be listening to a radio program this morning on a typical leftist station (don’t ask) and they were discussing anti-bullying programs in schools aka elementary school sexual deviance training. The expert being interviewed made the common and absolutely never proven assertion that kids are born with homosexual desires (“gay”) so this sort of schooling could not possibly influence their sexual predilections. Of course, this false assertion is never challenged and is simply taken as fact. America and the rest of the Western world are doomed.
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 3:27 pm

Drawing attention to politically incorrect news is one thing I admire about your work.

I’ve had to say “not all men” and “not all libertarians” and “not all pagans” and even “not all ‘whites'” much more than anyone should. Most of that was long before I started the reluctant advocate thing.

I think it’s wrong to use all the progressive tactics. It’s enough to find the exceptions, you don’t have to allege that all of Label X does Action Y. Even if that is exactly what most progressives would do their scapegoat of choice.

Especially if that is exactly what most progressives would do their scapegoat of choice.
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 3:28 pm

Okay, you got me there.

If the label describes that specific action, obviously that’s an exception.
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 3:34 pm

Just to be clear, I support reporting abusive and destructive behaviors.

I just don’t like it being called a trend when there’s not evidence that it is.
DeadMessenger
March 4th, 2016 @ 4:05 pm

Well, I’ve been around the block, and so have you. Seems to me that the term “trend” is supported anecdotally, especially since mainstreaming both homosexuality and feminism has increased acceptance of both, thus encouraging people to make really, really bad choices because they think that acceptance somehow translates to lawfulness (or appropriateness).

Seriously, NW, did you hear about this much lesbian teacher/student sexual activity 20 years ago? Or even 10? And I don’t think it was just simply not reported; indeed, I think it was more likely to have been reported in the past, when it happened, just because of the shock factor.

That’s just my opinion and observation, though.
Rhino
March 4th, 2016 @ 4:13 pm

I think the bond requirement that Garrigus cannot be around even her own children is ridiculous and abusive.
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 4:46 pm

There’s an example I use with the climate change crowd. Suppose I told you that your favorite relative was coming to visit you and they’d be coming in a red car. Suddenly you start noticing all the red cars on the road. Now, has the number of red cars really increased?
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 4:51 pm

Now, is there more lesbian teacher/student sexual activity?

I don’t know.

But does that mean that every lesbian or even most lesbians have sex with kids and adolescents?

No.

There’s something else going on, something that we need to take a harder look at.

I think I would start by looking at how we glorify victimhood. But I admit I have a personal bias there.
Adobe_Walls
March 4th, 2016 @ 6:19 pm

It is perfectly acceptable, indeed our duty to make blanket negative generalizations about Progressives/Khymer Rouge. Even if they’re unfair, especially if they’re unfair.
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 6:26 pm

And that proves conservatives are better how?
concern00
March 4th, 2016 @ 7:24 pm

What’s good for goose is good for the gander.
Rhino
March 4th, 2016 @ 7:48 pm

It doesn’t surprise me anymore that people think punishment should precede conviction.
Adobe_Walls
March 4th, 2016 @ 7:52 pm

The Progressives/Khymer Rouge deserve no consideration of an kind. Any thing we were willing to do to defeat the Nazis we should be willing to do to defeat the left. That conservatives are better has obviously not been enough. We need to be better AT it than they are.
concern00
March 4th, 2016 @ 7:59 pm

It is reasonable to expect equal application of the law. In this instance this is a consequence of her actions and not punishment. The law is intended to protect children from an alleged predator.
Rhino
March 4th, 2016 @ 8:04 pm

The bond conditions amount to a punishment prior to conviction. Supposing she slept with a 17 year old, which has only been alleged and not proven at this stage, there is no rational connection between that and the bond condition preventing her from seeing her children.

Bond in a pre-trial setting is for the purpose of ensuring the attendance of the defendant at future hearings. Using it to punish the defendant and her children prior to conviction is immoral, unjust, illegal, and unconstitutional.

You should be ashamed of yourself. You are as bad or worse than any feminist.

The judge should be run out on a rail.
concern00
March 4th, 2016 @ 8:08 pm

Rather than launch into an ad-hominem (you should be ashamed of yourself using the logic of the left) perhaps my opinion is not supported by a broad knowledge of the subject matter. So how about you give me the benefit of a doubt? If I ignore your ad-hominem, I appreciate your informative answer.
NeoWayland
March 4th, 2016 @ 8:18 pm

That is how monsters are made. Along the way they forget how to be human.

And I believe that is Godwin’s Law.
Rhino
March 4th, 2016 @ 8:31 pm

An ad hominem is when I call you a poopy head or a Rubio voter.

No, I will not relent, oh Queen of Hearts, you were told the problem in the first place and yet persisted in advocating for foolishness and iniquity for personal political reasons having literally nothing to do with the facts of this particular case and have shown yourself to be an indicator, in microcosm, of everything that is wrong with our justice system, including the very things we are all so pissed about that McCain writes about here virtually every day.

You had best hope that you never run across such an unjust judge because then you will understand, far better than I, what the problem is.
dabhidh
March 4th, 2016 @ 11:04 pm

The trend, if it can be reasonably called one, likely stems somewhat from the mainstreaming of homosexuality and radical feminism, but also perhaps more generally from the habits and attitudes of a generation of people who do not know how to control their urges. The homosexual teacher 30 years ago would have long been self-trained in restraint, knowing full well the risk of acting on desire. Many adults today seem to believe that restraint of desire is some form of false consciousness. Also, people generally seem to believe that mutual consent makes right. Basically these people have no moral center, that’s why they make these bad choices. Even if they understand that what they do is generally considered wrong, they don’t understand why, so they refuse to accept it.
DeadMessenger
March 4th, 2016 @ 11:44 pm

Yeah. What he ^^^^^ said.
DeadMessenger
March 4th, 2016 @ 11:49 pm

I’m not suggesting that most or all lesbians would do that. I think it’s more what the other guy said.
DeadMessenger
March 4th, 2016 @ 11:55 pm

I don’t think this is a good example, because…of course, this is my opinion…I think the percent of the population that is homosexual, whether in the closet or not, remains fairly steady, at least in western cultures. And maybe in others, too, for all I know.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 7:51 am

There I admit we get into some speculation. We can’t isolate the culture from the genetics. Not to mention that Really Big Assumption that you are either straight OR gay forever and ever, amen.

We can’t say how much a person’s sexual orientation depends on their conditioning, religious beliefs, cultural standards, rebellion, stress, pain, or pleasure. These factors can’t be eliminated.

Basically all we have to work with is observations and we don’t know how much is because of the biology and how much is because of the mind. That means in turn that any discussion of sex is going to bog down really quickly in ideas that can’t be quantified.

Thank the gods the same can’t be said for the act!
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 7:54 am

You yourself might not, but there is a tendency on this board to assume otherwise.

Still, we can mostly talk civilly about it.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:02 am

I make a distinction between RadFems and lesbians. I agree that most RadFems are lesbians, but I do not agree that most lesbians are RadFems.

I also think there are some broken people there, but for now let’s leave that on the shelf because it’s very messy.

Finally I draw a distinction between homosexuality and sex with children.

You make some good points about self discipline. It goes further than sex.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:07 am

“Also, people generally seem to believe that mutual consent makes right. Basically these people have no moral center, that’s why they make these bad choices. “

I disagree with these two statements. One of my favorite party tricks is showing how it’s possible to use what Christians call the Golden Rule to create a moral and ethical code that does not depend on an external moral center.

The libertarian in me insists that ALL human interaction SHOULD depend on mutual consent. Informed choices between consenting adults.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:14 am

Also worth mentioning.

?THE GOLDEN RULE – Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

THE SILVER RULE – Do for yourself at least as much as you do for others.

THE IRON RULE – Don’t do for others what they can do for themselves.?

They aren’t original with me, I ran across them as a motivational tool during my Corporate Clone days.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:17 am

How about that? The oversize quotes work in Disqus. I wonder what else works?

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Adobe_Walls
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:41 am

*down twinkles* for the improper invocation of Godwin’s Law.
I’m surprised at you, your reading comprehension is usually better.
I did not compare Progressives to Nazis, but rather put them in the same genre as the Khymer Rouge. My Nazis reference set the bar for acceptable tactics to combat Progressives.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:48 am

Godwin’s Law refers to the simple mention of Nazis or Hitler.

There are ways to disarm without open battle. If anything, these methods can work better against progressives. Take away their Moral Certainty® and they will scatter like rabbits.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 8:57 am

I should mention that much of their Moral Certainty® comes from either the implicit or explicit support of government and social institutions.

That’s precisely why government should not be involved in “social engineering.”

If your ideas can’t stand on their own without the threat of force, then you are doing it wrong.
Adobe_Walls
March 5th, 2016 @ 9:43 am

You can’t take away their moral certainty. You can’t disarm them without taking away they’re power. You can’t take away they’re power without rooting them out of government. to do this you must eliminate the illegal 4th branch and their NGO allies.
Adobe_Walls
March 5th, 2016 @ 9:53 am

For the founders ideas to triumph force was required.
Unreliable Consent
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:03 am

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https://twitter.com/frrlou/status/706132427824078849
Fail Burton
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:25 am

Trying to read some system of morality into the mind of a woman who has demonstrated she is in possession of no such system is a fool’s game. Whatever she may consider boundaries they are certainly not what society does. Ergo, no contact.
Fail Burton
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:26 am

Whitney, you saucy doxy. Be you the same Whitney my second mate ravished off the Dry Tortugas?
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:30 am

Yes you can because right now all their power is borrowed.

I know because I’ve done it. RSM touches on it in a few of his entries.

If they can’t define the terms or the argument, they fall silent.
Fail Burton
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:30 am

Weaponizing their own stupidity and throwing it in their faces is appropriate. How much have you heard about the Muslim couple who marched into a school and started spraying the place after it happened? Zilch.

Meanwhile, some nutty kid kills 9 blacks and NASCAR prohibits Confederate flags and some idiot shimmies up a pole and becomes a hero. Don’t expect that expert climber to go after any flags of Islam. Goose/gander, bitches.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:31 am

The Founders were responding to force.
Fail Burton
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:31 am

Godwin’s Law was created by an empty-headed child. It is perfectly appropriate to make simple comparisons.
Fail Burton
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:32 am

Maybe we should compare these Nazis to Brer Rabbit or Popeye the Sailor.
NeoWayland
March 5th, 2016 @ 10:34 am

Mike Godwin was a lawyer.

He may have been many things, but he wasn’t an empty-headed child.