Hey, everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious.

You know there are some stories in true crime that just sicken me, like right to my core.

I have a story for you today about a teacher allegedly acting pretty inappropriately

with students. And I know you're going to say, stop, I've heard it before, I've heard it a bunch,

but I am telling you, I have never heard anything as cringe and as sickening as what this teacher is alleged to have done with not one,

not two, not three, four, five, six, or seven, multiple boys, many of them 13. And the husband is kind of involved in the story.

You may have heard a headline about a teacher who allegedly bought scream masks

and had sex with students wearing the scream masks.

And if that's the only story that you've heard, you need to buckle up and get a drink.

Because this is the story of a former 31-year-old Indiana teacher and mother that's sending shockwaves through her

small town community after she was accused of unspeakable crimes involving her own students.

Her name is Brittany Fortenberry,

and prosecutors say the smiling substitute teacher,

the one parents trusted with their kids,

wasn't just crossing lines with her students.

She was blowing them out of the water,

obliterating those lines.

Behind the substitute teacher facade, prosecutors say Brittany Fortenberry was living a secret

double life, one fueled by manipulation and drugs and deception and threats involving

boys as young as 13, and lots of them.

She's now facing 47 criminal charges. 47. And by the way,

you know, strap in here because there may well be more charges to come for this woman because

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