Soap Opera Star Turned Drama Teacher Busted for Sex with Student

By: Edecio Martinez
Topics: Daily Blotter

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Undated Photo of Lisa Glide at age 35.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBS/AP) Soap opera actress turned high school drama teacher, Lisa Glide, has been sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to having sex with a high school student twice off campus, according to MyCentralJersey.com.

But the supposed victim, who was 17-and-a-half at the time, says he pursued her.

According to MyCentralJersey.com, at Glide's sentencing, the victim, who is now a college sophomore, sent a letter on her behalf which read, "I feel the entire case was blown far out of proportion and reason... I was the initiator of the contact, not Lisa Glide. I was clearly not a young child and Lisa Glide was not a sexual predator."

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Regardless, prosecutors had requested a jail term of up to 364 days for the 35-year-old teacher from Howell, N.J. But at Monday's sentencing hearing Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa said jail time would not serve any useful purpose.

DeVesa noted testimony that Glide, who is not married, was suffering from cancer and depression when the affair with the student, then a senior at Old Bridge High School, took place. She was arrested in December 2008.

Once a soap opera actress, Glide started teaching in the district in September 2004 as a drama teacher, the Jersey web site reports. She served as an adviser for the school theatre program, directing school productions.

Glide pleaded guilty in June to endangering the welfare of a child.

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She is barred from teaching again in New Jersey.

More At My Central Jersey.com

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by rinaldi40 August 28, 2009 5:44 PM EDT: this just goes to show how woman in america are spoiled,priviledged,and perverted. i know what is going on out there in suburbia,i was a plumber, many woman have no morals.; Reply to this comment


by ubrew12 August 11, 2009 7:42 PM EDT: The cover story of this weeks Economist Magazine (a center right British publication) is about 'America's unjust sex laws'. Apparently, the circumstances under which American's get jailed and tagged as 'sexual predators' for life (influencing their ability to get a job or where they can live) is seen in the rest of the developed world as draconian bordering on abuse. And they are concerned that the rest of the developing world seems to be following America's example in adopting similar laws.

Their cover story for abuse is the case of Wendy Whitaker (then 17). At school, during a video, a friend asked her to perform oral s*x on him, so she did. But he was two months short of his 17th birthday, SOOO, five years probation on sodomy. She missed an appointment, so one year in jail: meeting women who had killed people, etc. Now, she's considered a sex offender for life, on a public registry, so everyone knows shes a 'freak' although they don't know what she did. What she did, was make a stupid mistake as a dumb teenager. Good enough reason to brand her with a red letter 'A' on her forehead and shun her for life, don't you think?; Reply to this comment

by redskinsfanin_sc August 11, 2009 6:35 PM EDT

This is why these trifling behind teachers continue to have sex with students, because they are not held accountable. I don't care how much he defends her, saying it was him and not her, she was the adult in this situation, she should have nipped that in the bud, period. I'm sick of these teachers doing this, you're the adult, you should act as you are, she should have went to jail, I bet if this was the judge son or daughter the sentence would have been different.

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by protest2u September 16, 2009 2:00 PM EDT: The only question I have is "where was this woman when I went to school?"..I think the judge in this case is asking the same question!


by aChangeOfIdeas August 11, 2009 6:12 PM EDT: WOW, I'm getting old. I was confused, I thought that was the picture of the student, and then the article said the student was a male... She looks great for 35. Actually she looks great for 25.; Reply to this comment


by csi-lover August 11, 2009 1:09 PM EDT: Hell, I'd have sex with her too! She's hot. The judge got this case right. No harm, no foul, just 2 ***** people enjoying getting off on each other. I am glad that the student was honest enough to tell the truth, and as always, the truth will set you free. And in this case, it set her free too.; Reply to this comment