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Originally Posted by Msmith

This is what a male teacher did to avoid being put in jail.

"A prosecutor in Alabama is calling a nearly 40-year-old man's marriage to his 18-year-old former student a "sham" to prevent her from testifying against him in a sex case.

Matthew Shane Wester - a 38-year-old former math teacher and one-time coach for both track and football at an Alabama high school - allegedly had sexual contact with one of his students back in 2014. According to AL.com, prosecutors indicted Wester in January 2015, alleging he "intentionally and knowingly engaged with a male or female student under the age of 19 in sexual contact which was done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party, to wit - kissing and spending the night with the victim."

Wester, who was married with a child at the time of the incident, resigned from his teaching position a month after the indictment, AL.com added. Last June, Wester, who divorced his wife a year ago, married the student, who has been identified as 18-year-old Amy Nicole Cox (Cox has previously shared photos of herself and Wester together, including one now widely-shared picture captioned "happily married"). But with the trial against Wester on the horizon at the time of their wedding, authorities are saying the marriage is simply a strategy to stop the teen from testifying against Wester in court - Alabama state law provides married couples with "marital privilege," meaning they can't be forced to testify against each other..."

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/math-teac...143119931.html

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