Unalived: Teacher commits suicide days after she’s charged with having sex with students

[Sugar Cookie]

A teacher at R.A. Hubbard High School was found dead this morning, two days after she was arrested on felony charges of having sex with students, the authorities said.

Leslie Gillespie was found dead at her home around 11:30 a.m., said Scott Norwood, the county coroner.

“It appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Norwood said. Gillespie’s body will be autopsied at the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.

Gillespie, 44, was an English teacher at R.A. Hubbard, according to the school website. The school is located in North Courtland, a small town in Lawrence County in north Alabama.

Gillespie was arrested Thursday on felony charges of having sex with two students — ages 15 and 16 at the time — according to court records. A Lawrence County sheriff’s office investigator wrote in a criminal complaint that the sexual contact happened when Gillespie met with the two students in her classroom after school during September of 2020. She was booked into the Lawrence County jail on two counts of school employee engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19 and one count each of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy. She was released on $60,000 bail later Thursday, records show.

Alabama teacher dies 2 days after arrest on student sex charges

Leslie Gillespie was found dead at her home in Lawrence County this morning, the coroner confirmed.

www.al.com

 

[Sejanus]

I always wonder what goes through the mind of a sexual predator that is a teacher.
Just cannot comprehend how a person in authority can sexualize children.
I guess she knew what she did was wrong and then some and the shame just overcame her.
On one hand I get why a person would kill themselves, God knows I hope for some perps to do it frequently.
In this case though I actually feel a bit of sadness over it.
There is some terrible unhappiness in her demeanor.
It's not often I would use this phrase but she actually strikes me as something of a tortured soul.

My thoughts are also going to the victims.
What must be going through their minds knowing that a person they had sex with killed herself over it or rather being caught for the illegality of it.
Are they sick about it, do they feel relief, did they like her?

She should have invested in better bras too.
Always remember a nipple should never be anywhere near a belly button when going out.

 

[JackBurton]

People charged with felonies, especially violent crimes, should have their firearms confiscated until the judicial system is done with them.

Now a woman is dead because Texas loves its guns. Shameful.

Anyways, she must have had some issues prior...afterall these teacher rapers usually only get a cuople years tops. Then again, she appears to be not too pleasant on the eyes, which coulda led to a harsher sentence most likely.

 

[Doctor Slaughter]

People charged with felonies, especially violent crimes, should have their firearms confiscated until the judicial system is done with them.

Now a woman is dead because Texas loves its guns. Shameful.

Anyways, she must have had some issues prior...afterall these teacher rapers usually only get a cuople years tops. Then again, she appears to be not too pleasant on the eyes, which coulda led to a harsher sentence most likely.

Very good insight. And we don't all love guns down here. Ok I lied we do XD