Lawyer for disgraced teacher says she died Tuesday of cancer
Mary Kay Letourneau listens to testimony during a court hearing in Seattle in 1998. Letourneau, who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted for raping him, has died. She was 58.Mary Kay Letourneau, a teacher who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted of raping him in a case that drew international headlines, has died. She was 58.
Letourneau was a married mother of four having difficulties with her marriage in 1996 when Vili Fualaau was a precocious 12-year-old in Letourneau’s class at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, a south Seattle suburb.At about 1:20 a.m. on June 19, 1996, police discovered them in a minivan parked at the Des Moines Marina.
About two months after the marina incident, Letourneau became pregnant with the couple’s first daughter. Their second child was conceived in 1998, after Letourneau had pleaded guilty to child rape and received a 7 1/2-year prison term. Fualaau and Letourneau had previously characterized their relationship as one of love, and even wrote a book together –All American GirlKing County court records show Fualaau asked the court for a legal separation from Letourneau on May 9, 2017.
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