``I mean I just told her, I was like, you know, I'm sorry,'' Lafave, 23, says to an unidentified 14-year-old student whom she is accused of molesting.

In her phone call with the teen, which was recorded by Temple Terrace police, Lafave was referring to a conversation she had with the boy's mother the previous evening. Lafave was trying to explain to her a trip to Ocala she took with the teen.

Lafave did not know the 14- year-old had confessed to his mother that he and Lafave had sex on that trip. The mother had called Temple Terrace police, and the conversation between Lafave and the boy was being recorded.

On Thursday, the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office released hundreds of pages of police interviews, telephone transcripts and DNA information as part of public record disclosure. The boy recounts how his relationship with Lafave developed. It's the first time that information has been released.

According to the statement the teen gave to police investigators, Lafave, a Greco Middle School reading teacher, approached him about a week before the school year ended last May.

``She told me she was thinking about me a lot and had feelings for me that she didn't know what to do with,'' he wrote.

The teen said Lafave befriended him and wrote him passes to get out of class. He spent the time in her classroom, but nothing sexual occurred then. When the school year ended, the two kept in touch by cell phone.

Soon, their relationship became physical, he said. The teen told police he and Lafave were engaged in sexual contact at her town home in Riverview. Lafave was married, but her husband has since filed for divorce.

Then, on June 13, she invited him to her portable classroom, asking him to help her clean up. The next day, the two met there and had intercourse for the first time, the teen said. He told police he had never had sex before.

They had sex again during a trip to Ocala in June when his cousin drove Lafave's sport utility vehicle, the teen said.

Boy's Mother Finds Out

The teen's mother found out about Lafave and her son June 17, after a second trip to Ocala, records show. The teen's aunt saw him and Lafave in Ocala and called his mother.

The mother spoke to Lafave about the trip but did not let on that she knew about the sexual contact. Instead, she followed police instructions to allow her son to call the teacher.

In those recorded conversations, the teen told Lafave that his mother was at a meeting and would be gone all day.

``Are you sure?'' Lafave asked him repeatedly, saying she was afraid because they almost got caught ``last time.''

On June 21, when she arrived at his home, she was arrested and charged with lewd or lascivious battery. It was three weeks after classes ended. She later was arrested on similar charges in Marion County.

DNA reports, taken from swabs of the teen after his return from Ocala, were matched to Lafave, Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports show.

On Tuesday, Lafave's attorney, John Fitzgibbons, said he plans to file court papers that will present an insanity defense. Fitzgibbons was not specific about the reason for the defense other than to say doctors had evaluated Lafave.

In a Temple Terrace police interview released Thursday, another teacher at Greco Middle School said Lafave normally was strict with her students but had recently begun to become much more casual. Lafave had taught at Greco for two years. The teacher said Lafave began to miss work and blamed it on headaches she was suffering. She was stressed because of the anniversary of her sister's death, Lafave reportedly told the teacher.

Lafave's pregnant older sister, Angela Beasley, was killed by a drunken driver in April 2001.

A licensed therapist from Indianapolis told The Tampa Tribune on Thursday that in sex abuse cases involving male, teenage victims, people often underplay damage to the teen because he is male. In our culture, she said, we have a misguided impression about men as sex abuse victims.

``It's like every 14-year-old boy's dream is to have an older woman and have sex with her,'' said Karen A. Duncan, who provides therapy to underage sex-abuse victims.

Male Sex Abuse Victims

In reality, she said, 38 percent of convicted sex abusers are women. Their male victims often suffer depression, anxiety and later have trouble trusting women emotionally, sexually and financially. Self- esteem and self-image problems are common.

Although friends may present the victim as the ``macho guy who had sex with the teacher,'' he may not feel that way about himself, Duncan said. That could lead to embarrassment and shame.

``It's not sexuality she has introduced him to,'' Duncan said. ``She has introduced him to sexual abuse.''

Reporter Thomas W. Krause can be reached at (813) 259-7698.