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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:42 PM Jul 2020

Mary Kay LeTourneau Has Died of Cancer at the Age of 58

Mary Kay Letourneau, the controversial Washington middle school teacher who began a sexual relationship with a student when he was just 12, has died of Stage 4 cancer, PEOPLE confirms. She was 58.

According to two sources close to Letourneau, she died after quietly battling the disease for several months. The exact nature of her cancer has not been immediately released.

LeTourneau was a sixth grade teacher when she began the illegal relationship with Vili Fualaau. He was one of her students. They soon began to have sex.

Ultimately, she was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for child rape in connection with their relationship. She twice became pregnant with Fualaau’s children before he was 15, despite court orders aimed at keeping them apart.

https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-died-of-cancer/

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Mary Kay LeTourneau Has Died of Cancer at the Age of 58 (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2020 OP
I remember her. and him. they married when he was of age, as I recall Demovictory9 Jul 2020 #1
Yes, and she had 6 kids Freddie Jul 2020 #8
I saw them (her and her brood) filing in for gopiscrap Jul 2020 #2
Her father was .....well you'd just have to read up on him underpants Jul 2020 #3
Her brother was at Blackwater and IG of DoD unc70 Jul 2020 #5
Her father was so far right, Orange County Republicans primaried him. LenaBaby61 Jul 2020 #10
Mary's father was a real RWNJ Congressman in Orange County Raine Jul 2020 #4
"family Values", "moral majority" Demovictory9 Jul 2020 #9
That whole family was ... LenaBaby61 Jul 2020 #12
"If Loving You is Wrong" by Gregg Olsen Freddie Jul 2020 #6
She deserved her prison sentence. madaboutharry Jul 2020 #7
Was she still with him when she died ? I remember how it seemed like she kept getting back with him JI7 Jul 2020 #11
I think they divorced in 2019 cabot Jul 2020 #13
I think they divorced because he was getting into a weed business underpants Jul 2020 #14
Someone close to him thinks that .... LenaBaby61 Jul 2020 #15
All around, a sad story. Turbineguy Jul 2020 #16
I've kind of kept up with this story over the years... Upthevibe Jul 2020 #17
Six kids just lost their mother.... Pachamama Jul 2020 #18
the kids are all adults now JI7 Jul 2020 #19
Just because your an adult doesn't mean you aren't their child or that you didn't love them Pachamama Jul 2020 #20

Freddie

(9,267 posts)
8. Yes, and she had 6 kids
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:58 PM
Jul 2020

The 2 girls with him and 4 kids with her first husband. He and the 4 kids moved to Alaska to get away from the publicity about the case.

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)
2. I saw them (her and her brood) filing in for
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:44 PM
Jul 2020

Midnight Christmas Mass at St. James Cathedral in Seattle one year

underpants

(182,823 posts)
3. Her father was .....well you'd just have to read up on him
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:47 PM
Jul 2020

So far right Orange County Republicans primaried him.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
10. Her father was so far right, Orange County Republicans primaried him.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 11:13 PM
Jul 2020

He'd fit in right now with these party of putin (Formerly GOP) Senators. They're treasonous, back tRump all the way. Lie for him. Are treasonous. Don't CARE if he destroys this world. Don't care that he doesn't care that tRumpcaronavirus is spreading in a hideous way. They protect him, and God only knows what one would see if we were allowed peak into the innermost depths of their personal lives.

Today, this muthafukker justified the US having 'only' 131,000 deaths from tRumpcaronavirus is fine because hey, it could be much more than that. But if we stop testing, it would be marvelous because there would be no caronavirus at all

Karma, please come get the party of putin's illegitimate president.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
4. Mary's father was a real RWNJ Congressman in Orange County
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:53 PM
Jul 2020

super religious who it turned out had fathered a child with a woman he was cheating on his wife with. Mary was pretty screwed up by her parents her mother was a RWNJ too.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
12. That whole family was ...
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 11:16 PM
Jul 2020

Filthy, sleazy and totally disgusting.

But then again, they were religious, right-winged, sexually-deviant, nut jobs.

Freddie

(9,267 posts)
6. "If Loving You is Wrong" by Gregg Olsen
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:55 PM
Jul 2020

Great true-crime book about the case, written while she was in prison. What a story. Her father was a California state legislator and an extreme RWNJ.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
7. She deserved her prison sentence.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 10:55 PM
Jul 2020

I am sorry she died at only 58. I don’t think she was an evil person, but what she did was wrong on every level.

There are laws in place to protect minors for a reason.

JI7

(89,250 posts)
11. Was she still with him when she died ? I remember how it seemed like she kept getting back with him
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 11:15 PM
Jul 2020

everytime she was released .

underpants

(182,823 posts)
14. I think they divorced because he was getting into a weed business
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 11:20 PM
Jul 2020

and her being a conflicted felon (I think) would have been a problem.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
15. Someone close to him thinks that ....
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 11:29 PM
Jul 2020

HE had enough of her, and they had separated finally. But, not before they did "Hot for teachers" themed nights in the late 2000's at local clubs I also believe he wanted to start a pot business as well, and said that was the only reason they were separated.

No one really knows what their 'marriage' was all about the final several years, or if they really separated.

Upthevibe

(8,051 posts)
17. I've kind of kept up with this story over the years...
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 12:32 AM
Jul 2020

I'd seen interviews off and on after they married and had their kids. It seems to be a really complicated story.....

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
18. Six kids just lost their mother....
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 03:17 AM
Jul 2020

She was flawed but I don’t believe she was a bad person....

She paid her dues, certainly more than the rich male perps like the Epstein’s and his cohorts have or even the many men who over centuries molested underage girls.

58 is young to have died...

Rest In Peace and sending love to her children who will suffer her loss - even more so the ones that were taken from her by the father to Alaska.....I am sure they have suffered terribly and are conflicted and they may not have worked through a lot of their pain and loss.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
20. Just because your an adult doesn't mean you aren't their child or that you didn't love them
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 03:31 AM
Jul 2020


What motivated such an answer to my post....
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