Ex-teacher jailed again

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former teacher who served time in jail for having sex with a 13-year-old boy was arrested for the second time in two weeks, accused of again contacting the victim and sending him sexually explicit videos of herself.
A judge on Wednesday ordered Pamela Rogers, 28, who had been free on bond after an April 11 arrest on a probation violation charge, to remain in jail until a July hearing.
District Attorney Dale Potter has said he will seek to revoke Turner’s probation and send her to prison for seven years. Potter didn’t immediately return calls Wednesday seeking comment on the latest arrest.
Rogers’ attorney, Peter Strianse of Nashville, said he will have to question his client’s mental competency if prosecutors substantiate the new charges.
“If they’re able to prove this, it would show an incredible lack of judgment,” Strianse told the Southern Standard newspaper after Wednesday’s hearing.
Rogers, dressed in a striped jail suit, didn’t speak at the hearing. It was her second court appearance this month on charges that she has violated her probation by contacting the boy.
The latest charges contend that Rogers reached the now-14-year-old student by cell phone just hours after her April 12 court appearance. Authorities said she previously contacted with the boy and his teenage sister by text messages and through the social networking Web site MySpace.com.
Rogers pleaded no contest last year to multiple charges of having sexual intercourse and oral sex with the student who attended the rural elementary school where she formerly taught.
In a deal with prosecutors, she was sentenced to a six-month jail term and lengthy probation under the condition that she not contact the victim or his family or use the Internet.
The new arrest warrants accuse her of talking with the student as recently as April 19 and sending him text messages and videos.
“These were videos of the defendant involved in sexual activity, and she was nude in the pictures,” the warrant says. She also is accused of receiving photos and videos from the boy on her phone.
The arrest records show some of the text messages were sent on a cell phone belonging to the Fentress County School Board of Education, where her father is a high school basketball coach. Neither the coach, Lamar Rogers, nor Fentress County school officials returned telephone messages seeking comment.
Investigators have said she began trying to reach the boy soon after her February release from jail through a blog where she addressed the victim by his basketball jersey number, called him her hero and said she would not fall in love again for three years.
She also contacted his sister through the site and posted photos of herself in a bikini, investigators said.
Rogers, who played college basketball at Tennessee Tech and Cumberland University, got her first job teaching physical education and coaching girls basketball at Centertown Elementary School near McMinnville, a town of about 13,000 residents 65 miles southeast of Nashville. She was married when the relationship with the boy began but she has since divorced.