She did the crime, but won’t do any time.
A sleazy 32-year-old Louisiana English teacher admitted to bedding her 16-year-old student but got off with a deferred sentence and will not be required to register as a sex offender.
Shelley Dufresne, 32, was so excited about the light sentence that the married mom of three posted a smiling selfie, one armed raised victoriously, to Instagram immediately after court with the caption: “My mood today” followed by three smiley faces.
In response to comments below congratulating her on the outcome, an ecstatic Dufresne wrote, “I am so relieved.”
Dufresne, once a teacher at Destrehan High School, received a deferred three-year prison sentence as long as she completes 90 days of mental health treatment.
Thursday’s plea deal helps her avoid a May 20 trial.
“She needs to be somber. I don’t think this was a joyous day at all,” Destrehan resident Lisa Young told WVUE-TV. “I think for sure she would have had to register as a sex offender.”
Dufresne is not out of the woods just yet. Though she admitted to sleeping with the teen last August and September at a home in Montz, she still could face charges from a group sex tryst she’s accused of participating in with another 24-year-old teacher last Sept. 12.
Authorities in Jefferson Parish say Dufresne and Rachel Respess seduced the same boy, now 17, after a football game.
Kenner cops say the menage a trois lasted from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Authorities say Dufresne “enticed and transported” the boy to Respess’s Montz apartment where Respess had sex with the teen while Dufresne “began intimately kissing (Respess) in an attempt to arouse all parties involved, all who were complete(ly) disrobed.”
The teachers were caught when the boy bragged about the sexual encounter.
Dufresne had been held on house arrest as she awaited trial, but was allowed to leave home to care for her three children, ages 3, 5 and 7, and to get mental health treatment.
In November, she asked to be allowed out so she could attend Jazzercise class.
Charges are pending against Dufresne and Respess in the group sex case.
