[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Leslie Buttram Gillespie, a teacher in Alabama, was found dead by suicide in her home on Saturday, just two days after she had been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two male students.
The woman was 44 years old. The shocking death comes after Gillespie was charged with one count of second-degree rape, one count of second-degree sodomy, and two counts for being a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19.
According to WAFF 48 and online police records, a student came forward with the allegations recently, telling investigators that he and another male student had been sexually abused by the educator in a classroom after school in September 2020.
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