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Former Stockdale teacher convicted of improper relationship with student
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Peter A. Leach was sentenced July 30 to 13 years in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice facility. The 81st District Court sentenced Leach, a former Stockdale Independent School District teacher, to 13 years in prison on charges of improper relationship between an educator and student and indecency with a child by contact, and 10 years on charges of child grooming and tampering with evidence. Leach, 36, will serve the sentences concurrently. Prior to sentencing, Leach waived his right to a jury trial and pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to the improper relationship and indecency charges — both second-degree felonies...