NEW YORK – A gym teacher facing the specter of prison on charges that he raped a student was found dead Friday morning, the victim of an apparent suicide.
Lawrence Major, 45, was found shortly before 7 a.m. sitting behind the wheel of a car.
Major was arrested Wednesday and accused of engaging in a three-year sexual relationship with a female student that began in 2002 when she was 14. He had been charged with second- and third-degree rape, as well as child endangerment.
He faced seven years in prison if convicted and would have been required to register as a sex offender.
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