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Teacher Charged With Sex With Minor

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By JOSH POLTILOVE

The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 20, 2008

Updated: 03/20/2008 03:56 pm

TAMPA - A Freedom High honors English teacher has been charged with one count of unlawful sex with a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Mary Jo Spack

The alleged victims were 17- and 18-year-old Freedom students, respectively.

Tampa police arrested Mary Jo Spack, 45, of Wesley Chapel today.

She was not their teacher, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

On March 14, she met the students and took them to a liquor store, a police release states. Then she drove them to a Howard Johnson Motel on Fowler Avenue, where they drank alcohol together.

"Those kids were texting some friends that they were going to have a party at this motel," McElroy said.

Three other students from the school joined them in the motel room, according to the release.

The 17-year-old student told police he had sex with her in the shower.

"The other students who were in the hotel room overheard the sex act in the bathroom," McElroy said.

The three other Freedom students didn't admit to drinking alcohol, she said.

Reporter Josh Poltilove can be reached at jpoltilove@tampatrib.com or (813) 259-7691.

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