Mary Kay Letorneau, who made headlines over affair with student, dead at 58
Mary Kay Letorneau, the former Seattle teacher who was convicted in 1997 of raping a 12-year-old student who she would later marry, died Tuesday from cancer, her lawyer told Q13 FOX of Seattle.
David Gehrke, the attorney, told the news station that Letorneau had been battling the disease for about nine months.
Letorneau pleaded guilty in August 1997 to two counts of second-degree rape with a student who was 13 at the time. (She was 34, married and had four children.) She later married the student, Vili Fualaau, in 2005 — after serving a seven-year prison sentence. He was 22. They had two children and Faulaau filed for a legal separation in 2017, the Q13 FOX report said.
Mary Kay Letorneau, the former Seattle teacher who was convicted in 1997 of raping a 12-year-old student who she would later marry, died Tuesday from cancer, her lawyer told Q13 FOX of Seattle.
David Gehrke, the attorney, told the news station that Letorneau had been battling the disease for about nine months.
Letorneau pleaded guilty in August 1997 to two counts of second-degree rape with a student who was 13 at the time. (She was 34, married and had four children.) She later married the student, Vili Fualaau, in 2005 — after serving a seven-year prison sentence. He was 22. They had two children and Faulaau filed for a legal separation in 2017, the Q13 FOX report said.
She knew her actions were wrong morally and professionally but took the risks in part because of her diagnosed "hypomania," a type of bipolar depression, Gehrke told local media.
Police discovered the pair about 1:20 a.m. June 19, 1996, in a minivan. Letorneau told officers the boy was 18, raising suspicions among the officers. Fualaau and Letorneau denied there had been any "touching." Instead, they said, Letorneau had been babysitting the boy and took him from her home after she and her husband had a fight.
About two months after the marina incident, Letorneau became pregnant with the couple's first daughter.
Other related developments:
- Teacher who had affair with 12-year-old student, said she 'didn't know' it was illegal
Other related developments:
- Teacher who had affair with 12-year-old student, said she 'didn't know' it was illegal
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