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Child sex abuser dies after drinking unknown liquid after jury convicted him

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A Texas man died after he chugged a bottle of a mysterious “cloudy” liquid following his conviction for multiple counts of child sexual assault.

NBC News reported that Edward Leclair, 57, began drinking from the clear plastic bottle after a Denton County jury returned a guilty verdict on his first of five counts of sexual assault on a person between the age of 14 and 17.

“I looked over and noticed him drinking,” Leclair’s lawyer Mike Howard told NBC. “His hand was shaking. At the time, I thought it was shaking because of the verdict. Then he kept drinking and drinking.