Just what could Rogers do next?

Just when you thought the Pamela Rogers sex case couldn?t get any more bizarre, along comes ?Episode III, Return of the Video Camera.? It?s the final piece of evidence that shows Rogers has morphed into a lunatic right before our very eyes.

At first she was the good-looking teacher who was charged with having sex with one of her students ? although a large segment of the community just couldn?t believe such talk. The boy had to be lying, some people said. This was a vicious rumor that had spiraled out of control.

After 198 days in jail and two more arrests, I no longer hear anyone proclaiming Rogers is innocent. If there are still any doubters out there, I have a video to show you.

By now most folks are convinced Rogers suffers from some serious mental issues. But I?m not so sure. The more I think about Rogers, the more she resembles professional wrestling (and don?t forget she did win a pro wrestling beauty contest).

When I first started watching wrestling some 25 years ago, it was pretty tame by today?s standards. People yelled in the microphone and occasionally got hit by a chair.

The problem was the ol? chair-to-the-head routine got boring to some fans. They wanted more violence and more blood. As a result just about anything ? and I mean ANYTHING ? goes in the world of professional wrestling.

People are body slammed on thumb tacks. Wrestlers are thrown off the top of ladders. There have even been storylines where wrestlers have been abducted. It?s absurd.

But sadly those are the same antics of Rogers, who thrives in the spotlight. Constant attention is her drug of choice.

If her initial round of sex charges weren?t enough, Rogers gets out of jail and posts over 100 pictures of herself on the most popular teen Internet site in the world. It only took a matter of days before someone alerted authorities, who arrested her 45 days after she was released from jail.

The pictures ? and a second trip to jail ? were apparently not enough. Rogers made bail and proceeded to make her entrance into the world of sex videos.

In the video clip obtained by the Standard, a person who looks exactly like Rogers is seen dancing and thrusting various body parts in front of a video camera. This video was then allegedly sent to a 14-year-old boy.

I?m not convinced Rogers ever believed this video clip would be for the 14-year-old?s eyes only. She had to realize it would quickly be sent to dozens of other people and eventually to authorities. She had to know she would be arrested again.

In talking to District Attorney Dale Potter about this, I asked him if this was a ploy by Rogers to serve her jail time and be done with the strict conditions of her probation. For example, Rogers still has seven years of probation, but if she was sent to prison to serve that time there is a possibility she could be released after serving only 30 percent of it.

However Potter told me she has to abide by the rules of her plea agreement for the entire eight years. And after those eight years are over, Rogers can still not profit from her crime. If she were to sell her story to make a movie, her victim?s family could file a lawsuit to get the profits.

In an interesting sidenote, there is nothing to prevent the victim, or his family, from selling their story for a movie or a book deal. If I had gone through what that family has endured emotionally, I think I would feel a little money was fair compensation for my pain and suffering.

But it?s probably too soon for a movie deal at this point. If we?ve learned anything from the Pamela Rogers saga it?s that the last chapter to this story has not been written.

James Clark is editor of the Standard. He can be reached at 473-2191 or by e-mail at [email protected].