One of the reasons identified is the "attention" that teachers receive from the student, when the student is seen as the aggressor. “He always told me how beautiful I was and what a good person I was inside” (Owens, 2015). In this case the teacher was unhappy in her marriage and was receiving attention from one of her students. The teacher describes how at first she thought he was innocent and playful until one day he let his guard down and the sexual relationship between teacher and student began. It is not always the teacher who attacks or initiates the relationship, but teachers often lack the willpower to overcome the adolescent's confidence and persistence. In this case the teacher has accepted the consequences and the punishment, and continues to recognize that he gave in to an inappropriate situation. Debbie Lafave also presents a case of sexual inappropriateness with her student. In this case Debbie, at the age of 23, had sexual intercourse with a 14 year old student. In Debbie's case, she claimed she was insane and because she is a model and her lawyer said she was "too pretty for prison", Debbie did not serve jail or prison time, but instead house arrest and probation . (Jake, 2009) Debbie stated that her choices were due to her mental instability with her diagnosis of bipolar. In some cases the madness card might be true or it might fit;