On February 4, 2005, Rogers was charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of
statutory rape stemming from a three-month relationship with a teenage boy who was her student in the basketball class where they engaged in
vaginal intercourse,
oral sex; both
fellatio and
cunnilingus, as well as
digital penetration at his home, at her apartment, and even at the school’s gym on more than 12 different occasions. and from that point onward, the relationship was sexual. The student who at the time had a girlfriend of the same age upon first meeting Rogers decided to terminate the relationship with his girlfriend to be with Rogers. She was given an eight-year
suspended sentence, during which she was to serve 270 days in the
Warren County jail in Tennessee followed by seven years and three months of
probation. She was also ordered to surrender her teaching certificate and register as a sex offender for life because sexual battery by an authority figure is a "violent sexual offense" under the law of the state of Tennessee. The sentence prohibited her from profiting from the case through books and movies as well as barring her from granting interviews for eight years.
Additional offenses Rogers was arrested again on April 24, 2006, on the grounds that she had sent
text messages, nude photos, asked if he would too and sex videos of herself to the same boy while using her father's cellphone. She was also charged for communicating with the boy via
blogs and a website. The judge ordered Rogers to remain in jail until her next court hearing. On July 14, 2006, she was sentenced to seven years in prison for violating her probation by sending explicit videos to her former victim and maintaining contact with him via online blogs. Rogers asked for mercy and apologized to her family and the teen's family, saying tearfully to the judge, "I have humiliated myself. What I did was wrong, I am willing to do anything to rehabilitate myself." She asked for local incarceration with therapy. Circuit Judge Bart Stanley denied her request saying, "You have done everything except show this court that you wanted to rehabilitate yourself." He revoked Rogers's probation and ordered her to serve the rest of a seven-year prison sentence at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center. Rogers received two additional years of prison time in January 2007, after she pleaded guilty to sending nude photos of herself to the boy. She was released in 2012. ==Second crime and prosecution==