A Louisiana judge has entered a finding of not guilty against one of the two English teachers in small-town Louisiana arrested for having an epic, nine-hour threesome with the same then-16-year-old male student.
The now-former teacher is Shelley Dufresne.
Dufresne, 34, taught at Destrehan High School in the suburbs of New Orleans.
The other teacher allegedly involved in the unholy trinity was Rachel Respess, 26.
The district court judge, Danyelle Taylor, based her criminal trial finding of reasonable doubt on a lack of evidence provided by local investigators and her belief that the male teen — the primary witness at trial — was unreliable, reports The Times-Picayune.
The judge conceded that Dufresne probably did have a bunch of sex with her now-19-year-old paramour.
“She betrayed a very basic public trust as a school teacher,” the judge said.
However, the case in Judge Taylor’s courtroom turned largely on the location of all the sex. Was it in Jefferson Parish, where Taylor presides, or was it in St. Charles Parish, the next parish over?
“I do not believe that the threshold has been met by the evidence presented to this court,” the judge said. She also described the teen as having a “braggadocious nature” and a “propensity to lie.”
Police say the ménage à trois occurred in the fall of 2014. They say it featured the then-16-year-old male student along with Dufresne and the other teacher, Respess.
Dufresne, then a married mother of three, was 32 at the time.
Respess was 23.
Prosecutors said the trysts between Dufresne and the teen started with some flirting and soon escalated into an impressive torrent of sex and oral sex — often within the cozy confines of her trusty Honda Pilot.
The threesome, which allegedly occurred inside Respess’s apartment, was a kind of grand finale of the romance between Dufresne and the teen student, prosecutors said, according to The Times-Picayune.
The epic threesome lasted from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. the next morning, according to police reports.
At some point during the lengthy overnight encounter, the football-playing male student recorded video footage of his experience.
Allegations by Dufresne in a related civil case suggest that the video showed the teen’s scrotum in the face of Respess as she slept.
Through her attorneys, Dufresne has claimed that the now college-aged student showed the video to his friends and football teammates but later deleted the footage and thus spoiled evidence.
St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s deputies alleged that the threesome happened on a Friday night, after a high school football game (which Destrehan won easily, 41-7). It was a special night, too, because it was Dufresne’s birthday.
Dufresne had been the student’s 11th-grade English teacher in 2016. Respress had the pleasure of teaching him in English class when he was a sophomore.
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