A 15-year-old boy (name withheld) told police that a sexual relationship developed between him and math teacher Stephanie Marie Ragusa when he was 14, and she was teaching at Davidsen Middle, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. Late Thursday afternoon, deputies arrested Ragusa, 28, at her Lake Bella Vista Drive home in Tampa and charged her with five counts of lewd and lascivious battery.

She is accused of having sex at least five times with the teen from Oct. 1, 2006, to May 4. One of the encounters took place while the teen should have been in an after-school class, and others occurred in Ragusa’s car and apartment, sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

Ragusa started working for the school district in 2006 at Madison Middle School in South Tampa, Hegarty said. She voluntarily transferred midyear to Davidsen in Town ‘N Country but it is unclear why, he said. Most recently Ragusa has been working at Martinez Middle School in Lutz. The school’s Web site lists her as a seventh-grade math teacher.

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