Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Katherine Schmitz (formerly Letourneau; January 30, 1962 – July 6, 2020) was an American schoolteacher. She pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child. The victim was Vili Fualaau, who was 12 or 13 at the time and had been her sixth-grade student. She was born in Tustin, California.
While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau's child. With the state seeking a six-and-a-half year prison sentence, she reached a plea agreement calling for six months in jail, with three months suspended, and no contact with Fualaau for life among other terms.
Shortly after spending three months in jail, the police caught Letourneau in a car with Fualaau. She was later given a prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of seven-and-a-half years.[1] Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth to Fualaau's second child, another daughter.[2] She was imprisoned from 1998 to 2004.
Letourneau and Fualaau began a 14-year marriage in May 2005.[3][4] They divorced in 2019.[5]
Letourneau died of colon cancer on July 6, 2020 at the age of 58.[6][7]
References
- ↑ "LE TOURNEAU [sic] CASE: Police check reports that teacher resumed sexual relations with boy". The Kitsap Sun. Associated Press. February 8, 1998. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
- ↑ "MARY KAY LETOURNEAU: Teenage father can't wait to see newborn daughter". The Associated Press (kitsapsun.com). October 19, 1998. https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1998/10-19/0012_mary_kay_letourneau__teenage_fath.html. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Wilson, Kimberly A.C. (March 18, 1999). "Letourneau May Be Transferred to Out-of-State Prison". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/mary18.shtml. Retrieved May 11, 2009.[dead link]
- ↑ "Letourneau Marries Fualaau Amid Media Circus". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. May 21, 2005. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Letourneau-marries-Fualaau-amid-media-circus-1174066.php. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
- ↑ "Mary Kay Letourneau's Separation from Viki Fualaau is Final, Says Source: 'Everything is Split Up'". Yahoo Entertainment. August 22, 2019. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mary-kay-letourneaus-separation-vili-175117476.html. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ↑ "Mary Kay Letourneau dies at 58". KHOU. July 7, 2020. https://www.khou.com/article/news/mary-kay-letourneau-dies-at-58/281-3d2eddeb-20b4-4955-8ba5-d351ac4800b7. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ↑ Mary Kay Letourneau Dies of Cancer at 58
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