A Texas weather reporter was reportedly found dead after sharing a Facebook post confessing her “sin.”
Plasker accused her band director of grooming her in a five-year-long relationship in a Facebook post Sunday, according to the New York Post.
STATEMENT REGARDING LOSS OF KCBD FORECASTER"We are deeply saddened by the tragic and sudden loss of KCBD weekend…
Posted by Kelly Plasker KCBD on Sunday, August 30, 2020
“I have sadly learned that not only were Laura and I his students and victims of his inappropriate use of authority as an educator but have been contacted by more women with the same stories; only now realizing how perversely pervasive, things situations which are still happening in our school systems MUST STOP!” she wrote on her Facebook. “Thanks all I needed to get out there as my final confession for the sins I am responsible for adding to the cross.”
KCBD, the news station Plasker worked for, confirmed her death on the same day, the NYPost reported. (RELATED: CBS News Journalist Maria Mercader Dies At Age 54 Of Coronavirus)
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic and sudden loss of KCBD weekend morning forecaster Kelly Plasker,” Vice President and General Manager Dan Jackson said in a statement.
“Kelly was a dedicated member of the KCBD weather staff, well-liked by viewers, and admired by her co-workers,” he reportedly added. “Our deepest sympathies go out to Kelly’s family in this time of great loss.”
Plasker’s cause of death has not been released, but the network aired a tribute to the reporter that alluded to suicide, according to People magazine.