Shelley St.Pierre Dufresne & Rachel Alyse Respess, Destrehan, Louisiana (suspended Sept 2014)

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  1. john smith

    john smith Active Member

    Am I the only one who thinks it's odd that Dufresne has one lawyer who defended her in St. Charles Parish and another lawyer representing her in Jefferson Parish? Is that normal in that region for criminals who commit crimes in multiple jurisdiction to have multiple lawyers? Just wondering what the reasoning is for having two different lawyers....
     
  2. john smith

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  3. Knippy

    Knippy Super Major Contributor

    Same here
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    DESTREHAN, LA (WVUE) -
    A teacher admitted to a judge that she had sex with a 16-year-old student, and hours later took to Instagram to post about her joy.
    After Dufresne left court, she posted on social media a picture of her smiling with the caption "my mood today" followed by three smiling faces. It's unknown what Dufresne was posting about, but comments below suggest it had something to do with her name being in the news.
    "She needs to be somber. I don't think this was a joyous day at all," Destrehan resident Lisa Young said. "I think for sure she would have had to register as a sex offender."

    http://www.wbtv.com/story/28767539/teacher-admits-to-sex-with-student-posts-her-joy-to-social-media
     
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  4. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    Just when you think dumb can't get any dumber ...

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    Married teacher, 32, who had sex with her student, 16, celebrates avoiding jail by posting a smiling selfie on Instagram - but still faces charges over 'threesome' she had with ...
    • Shelley Dufresne in of St Charles Parish, Louisiana, took a plea deal
    • Mother-of-three avoided prison and won't have to register as a sex offender
    • Took an image of her smiling after the hearing and wrote: 'My mood today'
    • Also said she was 'relieved' when followers began congratulating her
    • Is still facing charges over an alleged threesome she had with the same student and fellow teacher Rachel Respess, 24
    32-year-old English teacher who admitted having sex with a 16-year-old student posted a celebratory selfie on Instagram just hours after discovering she had avoided a prison sentence. Shelley Dufresnein from St Charles Parish, Louisiana, took a plea deal on Thursday that gets her out of serving any time behind or having to register as a sex offender. When she returned home from court she uploaded an image of her grinning to the social media site alongside the message: 'My mood today,' followed by three smiley faces.


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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aces-charges-threesome-youngster-teacher.html
     
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  5. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    Teacher pleads guilty to sex with student, posts her joy to social media

    After [Shelley] Dufresne left court, she posted on social media a picture of her smiling with the caption "my mood today" followed by three smiling faces. It's unknown what Dufresne was posting about, but comments below suggest it had something to do with her name being in the news ... In a separate case, Dufresne and Rachel Respess, 24, are accused of having sex with the same student in Kenner. That case is pending in Jefferson Parish.


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    http://www.kfvs12.com/story/2876753...ex-with-student-posts-her-joy-to-social-media
     
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  6. News Readers

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    Teacher, accused of threesome with student, avoids jail time; posts gleeful pic to Instagram

    HAHNVILLE, La. — A former Louisiana high school teacher admitted to having sex with a 16-year-old student but avoided jail time with a plea deal. Shelley Dufresne, 32, was originally charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile, a charge that carries a ...


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    http://myfox8.com/2015/04/10/teacher-accused-of-threesome-with-student-avoids-jail-time-posts-gleeful-pic-to-instagram/


    Teacher pleads guilty to threesome with student; posts joy to Instagram

    She and another former teacher at the school have been arrested, but not yet formally charged, in a Jefferson Parish case involving the same student. After leaving court Thursday, Dufresne posted on Instagram a picture of her smiling with the caption ...


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    http://fox2now.com/2015/04/10/teacher-pleads-guilty-to-threesome-with-student-posts-joy-to-instagram/


    Teacher, accused of having threesome with student, posts gleeful pic to Instagram after avoiding jailtime

    ... having sex with a 16-year-old boy and another former female teacher at the same time has avoided jail time with a plea deal, WGNO reports. Shelley Dufresne, 32, was originally charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile, a charge that carries a ...


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    http://q13fox.com/2015/04/10/teacher-pleads-guilty-to-having-threesome-with-student-posts-gleeful-pic-to-instagram-after-avoiding-jailtime/
     
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  7. News Readers

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  8. john smith

    john smith Active Member

    Well, apparently the victims parents aren't too happy with the outcome. The public at large seems to agree there should have been some jail time and at the the very least she should have been required to Register as a sex offender. The prosecutors, however are patting themselves on the back for what a great job they did. The judge felt the need to justify what she recognized to be a lenient penalty by saying she was told (by the prosecution) that this was normal sentencing for first time offenders in St Charles Parish. And the perp, Ms Dufresne is posting celebratory pics (insulting to the victims family and the public at large) as she enjoys the benefits of being well connected.

    - Prosecution happy.
    - Defendant happy.
    - Judge seems to want to wash her hands of the whole affair.
    - Victims family unhappy.
    - The public at large unhappy.

    So explain to me again why we should believe Dufresne's fathers influence wasn't a factor in how things played out.

    Jefferson Parish...please don't repeat this travesty of justice!
     
  9. TMP

    TMP Himself

    It's business as usual in one of the most corrupt states in the U.S.
    And so it goes ....
     
  10. Chicago Tom

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  11. john smith

    john smith Active Member

    Let me see if we can get this all straight....

    1. Dufresne admits in open court to having committed acts consistent with the crime of carnal knowledge of her student. However, in that same April 9 court appearance, she pleads guilty to a lessor felony obscenity charge that, per her plea agreement, would included no jail time nor sex offender registration.

    2. We are told by the Judge during sentencing that she was told (by the DA's office) that probation with no jail time or sex registration is the normal way of things for first time sex offenders like Dufresne in St Charles Parrish. It seemed odd that this ad hoc judge felt the need to explain the light sentence. It came off sounding as if she knew this plea agreement would be unpopular, but felt powerless to do anything other than what the DA suggested....as opposed to exercising her own discretionary power to ensure the sentence fit the crime....which was the whole purpose for this ad hoc judge being handed the case.

    3. That same day the DA touts this felony obscenity conviction to the public, praising his team and profusely patting themselves on the back over what a great job they did. (No doubt the defense attorney and Dufresne's father were among those also patting the backs of the DA and his staff.)

    4. The DA then tries to sell to the public that despite Dufresne plea agreement having no jail time or any requirement to register as a sex offender, that this sentence is really and truly is quite severe (despite what our lying eyes are telling us) and that we should trust him that this outcome was for the good of all concerned.

    5. The DA also claims (both then and now) that the victims parents were on board with the plea agreement, despite multiple media reports to the contrary. While they may have consented to the plea agreement on paper, it doesn't necessarily mean they were supportive of it. It would be interesting to know if they were pressured in any way to sign off on the agreement, especially if that pressure came from the DA's office. Unfortunately we've yet to hear directly from the victims parents, nor their attorney. I would suggest to the St. Charles Parrish DA that a comprehensive statement from the victim's parents (through their lawyer) describing their satisfaction with the conviction and sentencing would have gone a long way to ending the public discourse....both then and now.

    6. Dufresne goes home and post celebratory pics on line over her plea agreement. This outraged a public already in shock over the light sentence she receive and was insulting the victims family. One thing was clear, there was no expression of remorse by Dufresne.

    7. Then the following day, unbeknownst to the public, the DA meets behind closed doors in chambers to have the crime Dufresne pleaded guilty to the day before reduced to a misdemeanor so that the DA could honor the terms of the sweet plea bargain he orchestrated for Dufresne. (The felony obscenity charge she plead guilty to the day before apparently didn't allow for the wrist slap the DA wanted to give her.) Such motions for sentencing relief are almost always initiated by the defense, never by the prosecutions.....except in this case it seems. This misdemeanor charge makes no mention of the sex acts committed by Dufresne on the boy, and in fact makes it sound as if she did nothing more than send the boy a link to some advertisement for a porn site.

    8. Once this was exposed by MCC, the DA goes public again and essentially argues that the change to a misdemeanor was necessitated in order to honor the terms of the plea agreement he constructed for Dufresne. He goes on to say that the Metropolitan Crime Commission's probe request failed to point out that the carnal knowledge charge still hangs (invisibly) over her head, and that she'll really be in for a world of hurt should she fail to meet the sweet conditions of her "felony probation" for the reduced misdemeanor crime the court records now indicate she was convicted of. (As if that is supposed to make a difference to those angered by the sentence handed out.)

    9. The DA goes on to say that on Sept. 1, Dufresne would be back in court for a review of her adherence to the felony probation conditions. The DA says that she "promised" through her attorney that they will at that time "file any motions and take any necessary steps to correct any legal or technical issues with her felony sentence....." He offers no description of what that entails. My guess is it WILL NOT include Dufresne and her attorney insisting that the misdemeanor conviction be changed in the court record to reflect instead a felony conviction to jive with her felony probation. My guess is that they simply need to state in the court records that Dufresne agreed to follow the terms of a felony probation (including oversight by the state) while keeping the misdemeanor conviction in the court records intact.

    The DA talks in circles but ultimately it is the same message. She gets no jail, no registration as a sex offender, and now we also discover no felony conviction in the court records nor mention of any sex acts even taking place.....but despite all that, he says the public should be satisfied with the knowledge that should she not follow the agreed upon felony probation guidelines (I assume as determined by this same DA's office) that she will get into a lot of trouble. One has to wonder how the public would have reacted had they known on April 9 that the DA, as he boasted over the felony conviction, would the next day change it to a misdemeanor conviction that made no mention of any sex acts taking place? Clearly Dufresne knew. Her celebratory pic is a lot more understandable (though no less callous or cruel to the victims family) now that we are getting a clearer picture of what took place.

    But hey, there is no doubt that daddy judge is most certainly pleased with the outcome in St. Charles Parrish. It doesn't take a mental giant to see the obvious conflict of interest in this DA's office prosecuting this individual. When viewed in that context, it's pretty clear where the DA's allegiance and priorities were focused in the adjudication of Dufresne. I doubt if a defense attorney was even necessary....she clearly had the DA on her side and working on her behalf.
     
  12. john smith

    john smith Active Member

    Regarding the St. Charles Parrish charges, could it possibly have turned out any sweeter for Dufresne given the crimes we all know she committed? Nope, no sign of any preferential treatment having taken place here....none at all. It's beyond shameful.
     
  13. interestedthirdparty

    interestedthirdparty Registered Member

    Has this site been abandoned by the moderators? Nothing new gets posted. Only replies to existing threads.

    Anyway, big news on this front. New details have emerged via a civil suit by the student's parents.

    New details can be found here regarding the suit that had remained mysteriously unreported:

    http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2016/04/destrehan_teacher_sex_abuse.html

    And here you can read that they had sex with the student over 40 times including a threesome that lasted some 9 hours:

    http://theadvocate.com/news/neworle...-had-sex-40-plus-times-per-newly-revealed-sui

    It also appears Mrs. Dufresne spoke disparagingly of the boy after the relationship became public, causing undue mental anguish.
     
  14. Knippy

    Knippy Super Major Contributor

    At one point one of the moderators said his/her day job was consuming the time they normally spent on the site. I can only assume that is still the case.
    Good find on this one, I was wondering where the two of these "ladies" were in their cases.
     
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  16. TMP

    TMP Himself

    Most of the newest stuff since April 2014 is in the News Feeds for Arrested Teacher Reports subforum, which is accessible only to registered members (that includes you guys). The restriction is to keep Google from indexing the irrelevant feed items & threads in progress as things are consolidated such superfluous index might seriously damages the sites ranking (not that it's so hot at the moment anyway).

    My absence is due not only to work but family considerations, and I've a feeling the family considerations will be getting worse. I'm probably on verge of shedding a number of my internet projects.

    If any of you would like to take over the site, I'm open. Misconduct Tracker (325 posts) and Knippy (91 posts) are the obvious choices.
     
  17. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    Student testifies about threesome with his teachers

    A former student who allegedly had a threesome with two high school teachers in Louisiana testified in court on Tuesday about the steamy romp — and admitted secretly recording one of the women sleeping after sex as “proof” to show to his fellow football players. The unidentified student, now 19, detailed the relationship he had with former Destrehan High School teacher Shelly Dufresne, 34, that began when he was a 16-year-old student in her English class. The month-long affair began with a Facebook message from Dufresne after the teen was out sick one day in August 2014, he testified, and ...


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  18. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    Student testifies about threesome with his teachers

    A former student who allegedly had a threesome with two high school teachers in Louisiana testified in court on Tuesday about the steamy romp - and admitted secretly recording one of the women sleeping after sex as "proof" to show to his fellow football players. The unidentified student, now 19, detailed the relationship he had with former Destrehan High School teacher Shelly Dufresne, 34, that began when he was a 16-year-old student in her English class. The month-long affair began with a Facebook message from Dufresne after the teen was out sick one day in August 2014, he testified, and ...


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    https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/student-testifies-about-threesome-his-teachers/3171325/
     
  19. Knippy

    Knippy Super Major Contributor

    Not Guilty in Jefferson Parish:
    Former Destrehan High School teacher Shelley Dufresne was acquitted by a Jefferson Parish judge Wednesday on two counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile stemming from a month-long sexual relationship she had with a teenage student in 2014.

    Judge Danyelle Taylor of 24th Judicial District Court in Gretna said that while Dufresne’s behavior may have been outrageous and wrong, there wasn’t enough evidence that a crime had been committed in Jefferson Parish.

    The illicit relationship between teacher and student was not in dispute. Dufresne, 34, pleaded guilty in 2015 to the lesser charge of obscenity in St. Charles Parish, but that investigation indicated two trysts may also have occurred in Jefferson Parish: in a Metairie parking lot the first time the pair had sex on Aug. 22, 2014, and an alleged threesome in a Kenner apartment days before the relationship became public the next month.

    http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/courts/article_a2c412c2-2ab0-11e7-88f2-4bdc2b55f32e.html
     
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  20. Knippy

    Knippy Super Major Contributor

    For Rachel Respess:
    Charge dropped for 2nd teacher in Destrehan student sex case
    The Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office dropped a charge against Rachel Respess, 24, one of two teachers alleged to have had sex with a 16-year-old Destrehan High School student in 2014. The dropped charge ends criminal proceedings against the two teachers.
    http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/06/destrehan_teacher_sex_rachel_r.html
     
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