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Docs: Teacher, Student Compared Sex Stories
Woman Accused Of Having Sex With 16-Year-Old Student

POSTED: 9:58 am EDT August 16, 2007
UPDATED: 10:35 am EDT August 16, 2007
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- A former Jackson Middle School teacher and her 16-year-old student apparently tried to coordinate the stories they told the Titusville police officers accusing them of having a sexual tryst.

It is not clear whether Janet L. Hughes, 32, and the boy knew the conversation they were having in the back of patrol cruiser was being recorded.

The seven-page transcript of the conversation was among investigative documents released by the State Attorney's Office to Local 6 News partner Florida Today. Those documents became public record after being requested by attorneys for Hughes, who faces one count of sexual battery on a child by a familial or custodial authority and attempted sexual battery on a child by a familial or custodial authority.

Hughes' attorney, Kepler Funk, did not return phone calls from Florida Today seeking comment.

The taped conversation included the student telling his teacher he'd wait two years to be with her, by which time he'd be 18. Other parts of the 45 pages of investigative documents cite the boy telling detectives and Hughes that he loved her.

Undercover Titusville police officers meeting to discuss an unrelated case found Hughes and the 16-year-old in a van parked at a church. Officers said they determined the two were about to have sex, and authorities said the two admitted to having sex before.

Hughes told detectives she was talking with the student about his personal problems as well as about her marital problems and should not have let the incident escalate as it did.

"Hughes indicated (the student) was showing her attention that sucked her in even though it's wrong," a detective wrote in a report.

The detective also wrote in his report that the student said the two had kissed in Hughes' classroom during school on the day police found them in the van.

During the recorded cruiser conversation:

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Hughes indicated that she knew it was risky to come to that spot because she'd seen police there before. She told the student: "Why did I even come here knowing that, that I thought the other day when they were here it was like a one-time deal and that they would, they come here on a regular basis."

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Hughes told the student that detectives asked her about the number of times they had been alone together and whether the two had had sex.

The boy replied, "Well, don't think of it as sex."

Hughes said, "Well, we didn't have sex today, no."

A court date is scheduled for Sept. 10 in the case.

Brevard Public Schools fired Hughes on May 8 because of violations of the teacher's code of conduct and has forwarded the incident to Florida Department of Education.

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