Teacher 55, Picks Up Young Man in Bar, Turns Out to Be Student, 17 - Gerald DiPanfilo

Not the best way for a long time teache to be remembered: for going to a bar, allegedly picking up a young man there, taking him home and reportedly paying him for sex, only to find out the boy in question is only 17 and a student at the school. That's what allegedly happened with Gerald DiPanfilo, 55, a teacher at Seminole High School in Florida and now officials there would like to fire him because the think his effectiveness to teach "has been diminished." Ya think? Here's more from TBO:

DiPanfilo, 55, was investigated in July after St. Petersburg police suspected him of having engaged a minor in prostitution, the school documents show. But after the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office took a look at the case, prosecutors opted not to charge him.
The case was turned over to the Office of Professional Standards, which is the school system's internal affairs division, and DiPanfilo was assigned to the district warehouse during the probe.
According to a St. Petersburg police report, DiPanfilo admitted he met someone at a bar and the two took a cab to DiPanfilo's apartment in St. Petersburg, school documents say. DiPanfilo said that once they reached his apartment, he may have given money to the teen, and the police report goes on in some detail about the sex the two had, the school documents say.
Police identified the 17-year-old as a Pinellas School student, but there is no evidence showing they knew each other before they met at the bar, and DiPanfilo told authorities he had no idea the teen was a minor, school documents say.
The 17-year-old told authorities DiPanfilo gave him money for crack and for sex, school documents show. Though DiPanfilo told St. Petersburg police he may have given the teen money, when DiPanfilo was interviewed by the Office of Professional Standards he said he was unable to recount what happened July 17 because of the amount of alcohol he had consumed, school documents show.