| Former teacher's aide gets 3 years for sex with students The Associated Press July 06, 2005 A 36-year-old former Citrus County High School teacher's aide has been sentenced to three years in prison for having sex with two teen boys. Tammy Huggins also will have serve another 12 years of sex offender probation when she is released from prison. She was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty last month to sexual offenses with a victim between the ages of 12 and 15, and sexual battery on a victim age 16 or 17. Circuit Judge Ric Howard decided not to sentence Huggins to the maximum punishment because the victims were in some regard willing participants, he said, and because she cooperated with investigators and even volunteered that there had been a second victim. Huggins was arrested in January after investigators accused her of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy that had begun a month earlier. The teacher's aide also had sex with a 16-year-old boy in April 2004 at a Beverly Hills home. When the allegations surfaced, she quit her job. She began working for the school district in 2000 and had good job evaluations, according to personnel records. Huggins' arrest followed the high profile case of Hillsborough County middle-school teacher Debra LaFave, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student. LaFave has another court hearing scheduled later this month. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050706/APN/507060794& cachetime=3&template=dateline |