COVINGTON, La. (AP) - A Louisiana prosecutor says a former high-school math teacher and assistant girls’ basketball coach has pleaded guilty to molesting a 16-year-old girl who had sent him Twitter messages.
St. Tammany Parish District Attorney Warren Montgomery said in a news release Wednesday that 38-year-old William Leto of Bush was sentenced Monday to five years in prison without parole.
Leto taught and coached at Fontainebleau (FOUNT-en-bloo) High School in Mandeville. Montgomery says he pleaded guilty Monday to molestation of a juvenile by a teacher.
The prosecutor says the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office received an anonymous tip last year that Leto was having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student. Montgomery says investigators learned that Leto’s contact with the student began on social media and turned sexual.
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