High School teacher caught having sex in van with 16 year old student:

Janet Lea Hughes mugshot

Janet Lea Hughes, 32, a teacher at Jackson Middle School, didn’t say anything after she bonded out of jail Wednesday night. Police said they caught Hughes just as she was about to have sex with a 16-year-old student in her van. Hughes is charged with unlawful and attempted sexual activity with a minor.

Her Myspace Page
(Still up as of this writing)

Age: 32
Birthplace: Long Beach, Cali
Current Location: central florida
Hair Color: burgundy brown
Eye Color: blue-grey
Height: 5′9″
Heritage: ? just white
Your fears: BUGS, especially spiders
Your weakness: procrastinating
Goal for today: finish school work
Goal for this year: start grad school
Lifetime goal: be able to retire
When do you want to get married?: already am
and to whom?: Pat
Ever been in love?: of course
Currently in love?: oh yea
Do you think you are attractive?: do u think i would say no
Your best physical feature: eyes
Have you ever…
eaten Sushi…: yuck!
gone skinny dipping…: yea
been beaten up…: no way
wanted to kill someone…: many times
gone a week without MySpace…: no
gone a week without TV…: no
Who’s the last person to…
kiss you…: Courtney
say hi to you…: my mom
talk to you…: Pat

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — School officials placed a Jackson Middle School teacher on paid administrative leave on Tuesday after she was found in a van with a 16-year-old student. Janet Lea Hughes, 32, of Viera, was arrested Monday night after two undercover Titusville police officers found her with a student in a van parked at First Presbyterian Church. Hughes was issued a $35,000 bond on one count of unlawful sexual activity with a minor when she made her initial appearance Tuesday afternoon. On a second count of attempted sexual activity with a minor, Judge Judy Atkin ordered Hughes to community supervision and to have no contact with the boy”

From WFTV:

The 32-year-old wife and mother was arrested after two undercover detectives found her in a van in a church parking lot with the 16-year-old male student. The detectives just happened to find them. “These detectives met in a parking lot to go over a case and they see the van. They walk over there and that’s when they discover the sex was about to happen between these two,” explained Todd Hutchinson, Titusville Police Department. The two were found lying on a blanket in the back of the van, in a position detectives said was clear they were about to engage in a sexual activity. When Hughes was taken back to the police station, detectives said she admitted to having sex with the same student in the past.
Hughes has only worked at Jackson Middle School for less than a year, teaching business electives. Before there, she worked at Palm Bay High School. Investigators said they are particularly interested in finding other young male students she might have come in contact with and talking to students she took on field trips, like one earlier this year to Busch Gardens in Tampa. The school district said Hughes has no disciplinary issues in her personnel file.

Authorities were not permitted to explain why the 16-year-old was still in middle school.

Janet likes Jamiroquai.

Here she blogs about how fun spring break was!

Like I said, there is no time for anything besides work and sports during the school year.

Oh I don’t know, I think she has time for a few other things on the side. After all, it’s very important to take time out for things like, you know, going for a walk, hanging out at the beach, having sex in a van… that sort of thing.

Here’s more images from her MySpace:

Two Things:

1. Where were teachers like this when I was in school?

2. Why is a 16 year old kid still in middle school?

2. This case doesn’t surprise me as what we seem to have here is a 32 year old woman who is emotionally stunted. She says yuck! to Sushi and when asked if she thinks she’s attractive responds do u think i would say no in typical teenager fashion. If her MySpace profile didnt have any photos of her and her family, I would think it was the profile of a 16 year old. Therefore, I ask the court to grant this woman leniency, as she is probably not much more mature than the lucky boy she was diddling in the back of the van. Oh yeah, and she’s from Long Beach.

One of the kids who goes to Jackson Middle school (8th grade) has a MySpace profile and Janet Hughes left this comment:

Crazy? For sure. Lucky? Not so much.

Pure gold, ladies and gentlemen.

First Presbyterian Church, Titusville, FL. will u be lucky tonight?