Tampa, Florida – A Riverview woman is upset not only because her boyfriend dumped her for another woman, but because of who that woman is and the time she may spend around her child.
That woman is Debra Lafave.
Lafave is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student. It is a confusing story that involves the ex-girlfriend of Lafave’s current boyfriend, Andrew Beck.
We learn about the triangle from court documents. In a motion for protection, the ex-girlfriend says Lafave came to the restaurant she works at and told her, ‘I’m Andrew’s first love and he would do anything for me.”
The ex-girlfriend, Lisa York, says “Lafave boasted, ‘If I wanted I could take him away from you.'”
The documents say “Lafave came back again and said he still loved her and she has him now.” Although Beck says Lafave would be a good influence on the two-year-old child he had with York as well as the 12-year-old daughter York has, she doesn’t want the children to be around Lafave.
York says if Lafave were a man, she wouldn’t be allowed to be around young children, and she doesn’t want her kids to be around Lafave.
However the court order granting bail made no mention of staying away from children.
Lafave’s attorney declined to comment. Some court house observers say it sound more like a motion filed from a scorned lover.
The judge refused to grant an order to keep Lafave away from the children.