Nearly a year has passed since former Freedom High School principal David Sheppard’s wife Donna was found at the bottom of the swimming pool at the Sheppards’ Lutz home, but the woman who was convicted of stalking Sheppard has finally been sentenced.
According to the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office, Tracey Elana Seenath, 40, of The Hammocks community in New Tampa was adjudicated for four counts of stalking on September 2.
She was sentenced to 12 months of probation for each count of stalking, without the option of early termination. During that time, Seenath is not allowed to have any contact with Sheppard or his family. She also will have to undergo a psychological evaluation and submit to any treatment deemed necessary, as well as serve 200 hours of community service with the HCSO work detail.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), Sheppard had an affair with Seenath when he was assistant principal at Paul R. Wharton High (located off Bruce B. Downs {BBD} Blvd. in New Tampa), where she also was working as a secretary. Sheppard reportedly ended their relationship in December of 2011, telling her in March 2012, one month after taking the top job at Freedom, to have no further contact with him.
The HCSO arrest report states that from the time when Sheppard ended the affair to Seenath’s September 11 arrest, Sheppard and his wife received repeated threats in the form of notes, letters and phone calls to their home, letters sent to Hillsborough County School District (HCSD) officials, as well as thousands of emails to Sheppard and text messages to the couple’s cell phones. Seenath also reportedly sent books, flowers, CDs, lingerie, magazine articles, song lyrics and nude photographs to the Sheppards’ home.
Donna Sheppard was found lifeless at the bottom of the family’s swimming pool on October 29, 2013, with a dumbbell strapped to her waist. Her death later was ruled a suicide.
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