Teacher charged in sexual battery on boy, 15

A teacher found at 2 a.m. in the backseat of her car with an undressed teen in Tamarac told deputies the boy was trying to seduce her and she was only trying to mentor him, the Broward Sheriff ’s Office said.

Pamela Sylvia Stigger, 33, of North Lauderdale, teaches at Forest Glen Middle School in Coral Springs, an arrest report said.

She was arrested at about 4:45 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of two counts of sexual battery on a victim older than 12 and younger than 18, and one count of lewd conduct.

The teen was taken to a rape treatment center for an examination.

He told investigators he was being driven home Wednesday night when Stigger stopped her car and began kissing him. They moved to the back seat, both removed pants and underwear and engaged in sex acts. She dressed, and the deputies — responding to a call for a suspicious car that was obstructing traffic with no one in the front seat — arrived to find the teen naked from the waist down, according to the report.

During Stigger’s first court appearance Friday, Broward County Judge Mardi Levey Cohen ordered bond of $37,500, GPS monitoring and no contact with the victim in the case. Levey Cohen also said Stigger cannot have contact with minors or return to teaching at this point during her case.

Broward County Schools’ spokeswoman Tracy Clark said Friday the district’s special investigative unit is working with law enforcement.

“The teacher is being administratively reassigned away from the school, and will not be permitted access to students, pending adjudication of the case,” Clark said in an email.

Stigger was hired by the district in August 2008. She taught language arts at James S. Rickards Middle School in Oakland Park from then until June 30, 2011.

Stigger has spent the rest of her career at Forest Glen Middle School, teaching drama from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 and language arts from July 1, 2012 until this week.

Stigger is state licensed through June, 2020 to teach English and English as a second language. She does not have a discipline record according to the Florida Department of Education website.