Eustis, FLORIDA

"Desperate Teachers of Florida," Episode #458

October 18, 2008 - Eustis High School English teacher Laura Pace, 38, was arrested, charged with five counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. For sexual activity with two male students.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office began investigating after the Lake County School Board received an e-mail detailing sexual misconduct between her and the two male students. One was an ongoing relationship then an encounter with the second. The papers say she sent images of her breasts and buttocks to one teen via cell phone.

One teen provided investigators with a letter handwritten on the fronts and backs of eight pages that Pace left in his mailbox, in which she apologizes for her sexual encounter with the second teen and tried to explain her drug use.The second teen told investigators he had one encounter with Pace at her home, where they also smoked marijuana and she offered him Adderall, an amphetamine. Both boys were 16 at the time and both have transferred to another school.

Pace is married.