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Former Middle School Dean Designated As Sex Offender, Avoids Prison Time In Plea Deal
March 27, 2024
The former dean at Warrington Middle School in Escambia County has been sentenced on a plea deal to a year of community control and five years of probation.
Darreyel Devahn Laster, 34, was designated as a sex offender and ordered not to have any unsupervised contact with minors.
Laster was arrested in January 2023. He pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges of lewd and lascivious conduct and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Charges of committing a sex act with a student and using a computer to seduce or solicit a child were dropped as part of the plea deal.
Laster was accused of providing marijuana to a 15-year-old boy before sexually propositioning him.
He resigned as Warrington Middle dean.
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12 Responses to “Former Middle School Dean Designated As Sex Offender, Avoids Prison Time In Plea Deal”
This is exactly why innocent children and other adults get hurt or killed. The cops arrest them and the judges slap their wrist. He needs long term jail time. What are we turning into New York City. When he does something worse it’s on the judges hands.
I would assume that he automatically lost his teaching certification- but, you never know these days.
The victims parents may have gone along with the plea deal so that the victim doesn’t have to testify in court. I think he needs some jail time. There are those in jail that don’t like child molestors…….
Why were the charges dropped?? I mean really??? That’s messed up.
JAIL PLEASE
@ Jcellops….I agree!!! It’s very rare that all charges get dropped in situations like this. I think we will see him back in court as a repeat offender. I pray he proves me wrong.
Remember things like this when it comes around to election time. This judge should not have allowed this to happen.
You notice the most serious charges were dropped! Why was he even offered a plea deal? No justice there.
Seems like not enough punishment!
Since this was such an unusual sentence based on others accused of the same crime, I looked to see what the reasoning was. Directly from the “Sentence Recommendation” sheet it states, “This Plea offer was made after consultation with the victim’s family”.
If I was the parent of that 15 year old, I’d be consulting a lawyer immediately. There are civil remedies here, I believe. That child will need ongoing counseling for some time.
Why wasn’t he put in prison?