RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The Raleigh Police Department has charged a science teacher and coach at Southern Nash High School with indecent liberties with a 15-year-old student.
Joshua Thomas Sessoms, 24, is also charged with statutory rape.
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The alleged crimes happened in Raleigh on October 7 according to an arrest report.
Sessoms played football at NC State through 2016 and had returned to his former high school to teach and coach.
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The NC State website lists his hometown as Wilson.
A spokesperson with Nash Rocky Mount Public Schools said Sessoms has resigned from his teaching and volunteer coaching positions.