By Mike Jaccarino PUBLISHED: 11:45 EST, 20 January 2013 | UPDATED: 05:40 EST, 21 January 2013 Wily: Leah Gayle Shipman skirted a potential 15-year prison sentence by marrying the victim she formerly seduced A former teacher facing a lengthy prison sentence for seducing a student has avoided jail by marrying her teenage lover. Leah Gayle Shipman, 42, wed Johnnie Ray Ison, now 19, in January of 2011 - two years after her arrest for having sex with the then 15-year-old student at a Wilmington high school, The Wilmington Star-News reports. As a result, officials cannot now compel Ison to render evidence against Shipman - and all statements he previously made to police concerning their affair are no longer admissible at trial.
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Johnnie Ray Ison, now 19, cannot be compelled to testify against 42-year-old wife
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Leah Gayle Shipman wed teen only six days after divorcing husband of 19 years
@placeholder's mother had to reportedly give written permission for her then 17-year-old son, who was still a minor, to marry Shipman in 2011.