Ex-teacher's Lawyer Trying to Settle Federal Case Save Email Print

Lincoln, Neb.
Posted: 12:14 PM Mar 6, 2008
Last Updated: 12:14 PM Mar 6, 2008
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The lawyer for a teacher accused of having sex with a former student and fleeing to Mexico said he wants to get the federal case against her dropped in exchange for her pleading guilty to state charges of statutory rape.

Kelsey Peterson of Lexington faces a federal charge of crossing a border to have sex with a minor.

James Martin Davis, who represents the 26-year-old former teacher, said Thursday in U.S. District Court here that if he can't settle the federal case, he wants the court to order the boy's mother to be deposed.

Martin said Peterson told him that the boy's mother advised them on the logistics of their trip.

The pair left Lexington in late October and were found in Mexico a week later.