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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMary 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 Fualaaus children before he was 15, despite court orders aimed at keeping them apart.
https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-died-of-cancer/
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Freddie
(9,267 posts)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)Midnight Christmas Mass at St. James Cathedral in Seattle one year
underpants
(182,823 posts)So far right Orange County Republicans primaried him.
unc70
(6,115 posts)Both father and brother have "complicated" stories.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)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)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.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Filthy, sleazy and totally disgusting.
But then again, they were religious, right-winged, sexually-deviant, nut jobs.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)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)I am sorry she died at only 58. I dont 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)everytime she was released .
cabot
(724 posts)They were definitely together for a long time.
underpants
(182,823 posts)and her being a conflicted felon (I think) would have been a problem.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)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.
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)Upthevibe
(8,051 posts)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)She was flawed but I dont believe she was a bad person....
She paid her dues, certainly more than the rich male perps like the Epsteins 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.
JI7
(89,250 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)What motivated such an answer to my post....