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   Former Florida middle school teacher Stephanie Peterson's   
   attorney filed a motion asking for a light sentence, citing her   
   relationship with her father and claiming the victim was into it.   
      
   A former middle school teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex   
   with an 8th grader is asking for a light sentence because her   
   lawyers claim the victim was into it.   
      
   Stephanie Peterson, 27, pleaded guilty in October to charges of   
   lewd and lascivious battery sex act with a child and electronic   
   transmission of material harmful to minors for sexting and   
   having sex with a 14-year-old middle school boy at New Smyrna   
   Beach Middle School in Volusia County, Florida.   
      
   The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office stated back in February that   
   Peterson’s relationship with the child is believed to have   
   started in November 2017.   
      
   A new motion filed on behalf of Peterson, obtained by the   
   Daytona Beach News-Journal, called the boy a “willing   
   participant” in the sexual assaults. However, he was not old   
   enough to legally consent.   
      
   Peterson faces between five and 10 years in prison, but the   
   motion seeks to reduce that term. In addition to claiming that   
   the victim wanted the sexual assaults, the motion pointed to   
   Peterson’s “troubled relationship” with her father and mental   
   health issues, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. The   
   motion states she received residential treatment at a behavioral   
   hospital and that she is in a support group for people who have   
   bipolar disorder.   
      
   The victim told his parents about the sexual assaults in   
   February after an unrelated conversation prompted him to burst   
   out crying and state “Anyone could molest you,” according to the   
   Daytona Beach News-Journal.   
      
   The victim told police that Peterson sent him nude photos and   
   “he said she started coming to his home at night, picking him up   
   around 11 p.m. on several occasions and bringing him back around   
   1 or 2 a.m.” according to the sheriff’s office.   
      
   She sexually assaulted him in her car, at her home and behind a   
   bar near the victim’s house, according to the Daytona Beach News-   
   Journal.   
      
   After the boy told his mother what happened, Peterson reportedly   
   told the boy over Snapchat, “Please tell her it was the worst   
   decision of my life and I know it was and idk where my brain was   
   but that I somehow fell in love with you briefly and idk why and   
   I’ll never be the same person because of it” before telling him   
   “I hate you” and “delete everything.”   
      
   https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/stephanie-peterson-florida-   
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