Lesbian teacher rapist off hook - no jail time
High-school coach faced 15 years, gets house arrest, probation in plea
Posted: January 20, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
=A9 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Amy Lilley (Photo: St. Petersburg Times)
For the third time this week, a public school teacher convicted of
raping a same-sex student has been sentenced to no jail time - this
time it's a lesbian coach in Florida who had relations with a
15-year-old.
Amy Lilley, 36, a former teacher and softball coach at Lecanto High
School in Lecanto, Fla., was sentenced yesterday to two years of house
arrest and eight more years of probation.
According to the St. Petersburg Times, the sentence, handed down by
Circuit Judge Ric Howard, was part of a plea deal between the state and
the defense.
Lilley, who was arrested in November, pleaded no contest to lewd and
lascivious battery, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years
in prison.
The 15-year-old girl Lilley assaulted was in tears during the hearing,
asking the judge to remove a stipulation in the sentence that barred
contact between the two. Howard declined her request.
The Times reported the girl's parents, who are divorced, differed on
the issue of contact between Lilley and her victim. The teen's father
said he had no problem with them seeing each other, but her mother
objected.
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