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Money can be made even out of a criminal act, or was that really true love?
Author: Lyn Thomas
Date: May 29, 2009 - 1:30:57 AM
Mary Kay Letourneau, thirty-year old teacher grabbed headlines in 1997 when she pleaded guilty to the criminal act of statutory rape (rape of a child) of 12 year-old student Vili Fualaau, who Letourneau said was her 'soul mate'. At the time Fualaau's father was serving a prison sentence for armed robbery.
Letourneau openly declared at her trial she knew had done wrong and asked for help. She served three months of her sentence and was then placed on probation. She had to enroll in a three-year treatment program for sex offenders. Yet, it was only one month later that she was again caught having sexual relations with the teenager. It appeared the couple had plans to skip out of the country.
Letourneau’s probation was cancelled and she was returned to jail, where it was discovered she was carrying the student’s second child. In November 1999, Letourneau was thrown into six months of solitary confinement for attempting to smuggle letters to Fualaau.
Fualaau's family, in 2002, sued the Highline School and city of Des Moines, Washington, for emotional suffering, lost wages and the costs of rearing his two children. He openly declared the school had failed to keep him protected from Letourneau. Siding with the defendant's lawyer, the jury agreed that 'Nothing could keep Letourneau and Fualaau apart'.
Letourneau finished her 7.5 year sentence, the maximum for child rape, with no time off for good behaviour. In 2004, Superior Court Jude Linda Lau, finally lifted the injunction she had enforced on the couple and permitted them to once again see each other. The couple got married on May 20th 2005, when a criminal seduction ended in a tightly guarded ceremony. Their two daughters acting as flower girls. Exclusive access to the wedding was sold to the television show Entertainment Tonight.
Letourneau's four children from her first marriage remain living with their father. Her two younger children, under court order, live with their grandmother.
John Schmitz, Mary's father, also caused a scandal when his long-term affair with a former student was revealed. He fathered two children to the student. Mary also went through marital problems when her first husband, Steve Letourneau indulged in numerous extramarital affairs.
Letourneau and Fualaau not only sold sell their wedding photos, but authored a book about their 'love affair'. Now the couple are hosting a 'Hot for Teacher Night', at a Seattle bar.
Letourneau will always be registered as a sex offender.
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