Teacher who was fired for having sex with 15-year-old student avoids jail by marrying him (PICTURED)

	Leah Gayle Shipman.

A teacher who had sex with her 15-year-old student has avoided going to prison by marrying the boy.

Leah Gayle Shipman, 42, married Johnnie Ray Ison two years after she was arrested for having sex with him aged just 15 at Wilmington High School in North Carolina.

That means the authorities can’t make Ison, who is now 19, give evidence against Shipman, The Wilmington Star-News reports.

This is because under North Carolina law a defendant’s spouse cannot be made to testify in criminal cases.

Brunswick County Assistant District Attorney Gina Essey reportedly said: ‘None of the statements made in this case would be admissible without the victim. The defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against them.’

Simpson was facing 15 years for statutory rape at the time of the wedding, which came just six days after she divorced her husband of 19 years.

Ison’s mother gave permission for son, who was still a minor, to marry.

The wedding only became public knowledge after Shipman pleaded guilty last month to resisting an officer investigating alleged abuse. She was given a 30-day suspended jail sentence. She was fired by the school.

NY Daily News

Comments (18)

  1. OmG! Wonders shall neva end, what a crazy world. Lets pray o.

  2. What a world we are immorality is just increasing daily'May God help us

  3. U makin it real here, keep it up. More greez 2 ur elbow. About d marriage, its a total child abuse & d woman must b jail 4 dat. Nonsense!

  4. U makin it real here, keep it up. More greez 2 ur elbow. About a d marriage, its a total child abuse & d woman must b jail 4 dat. Nonsense!

  5. this is what call a futunate event, but she is the luckies woman on earth.

  6. That was quite d easiest escape route for d 42years old mama. If it were here in Africa, i wld advise d young boy to save his head bt among d whites,decadence is d order of d day;anythng goes, so am not suprised

  7. If he was 15 2 years ago pls how is he 19 now

  8. She will only bully that youg man with sex

  9. luv dont have age,sex dont have age.luv is for old nd young.luv is a wounderful thing so my der carry go.

  10. How would 42yr old marry a 19old boy is she in sane.

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