Pamela Rogers, Infamous Elementary School Teacher

Pamela Rogers Picture by Duane Sherrill

Pamela (Joan) Rogers, who was described as sex addict by a psychologist, was a former elementary school physical education teacher and coach in McMinnville, Tennessee. She had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy, one of her students in Centertown Elementary School. During the three-month relationship, Rogers and the teen had dozens of sexual activities in the school, in her house, and in the teen's home.

Pamela Rogers faced 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape on February 4, 2005, but pleaded not guilty after she posted bail of $50,000.

On August 12, 2005, Pamela Rogers plead no contest to 4 charges of sexual battery. She was sentenced 9 months to the Warren County jail in Tennessee. During an 8-year suspended sentence where bans her from profiting from the case and being interviewed by the medias, she must also serve a term of 7 years and 3 months of probation, register as a sex offender, and surrender her teaching certificate for life.

On April 24, 2006, Pamela Rogers was arrested again on charges that she had sent text messages, nude photos, and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father's cellphone. She was also charged for communicating with the boy via online means. The judge ordered her to remain in jail until her next court hearing.

On July 14, 2006, Pamela Rogers was sentenced to 7 years in prison for violating her probation by sending explicit videos to her former victim and maintaining contact with him via online blogs.

Rogers asked for mercy and apologized to her family and the teen's family saying tearfully to the judge (video below). But Circuit Judge Bart Stanley denied her request.