Mary Kay Letourneau (born January 30, 1962), née Mary Katherine Schmitz, married Steve Letourneau on June 30, 1984 and had two daughters and two sons together.

She first met Vili Fualaau (born June 24, 1983) when he was a student in her second-grade class at Shorewood Elementary School, near Seattle, Washington. He was seven years old; she was 27. She was his teacher again in the sixth grade, and the relationship became sexual as he entered seventh grade. Her husband discovered her relationship with Fualaau when he read her love letters to him in February, 1997, and revealed it to family members: a cousin reported the relationship to child protective services and Mary Kay was arrested for rape on February 26, 1997. Four months later she gave birth to a daughter fathered by her student. On August 7, 1997 Mary Kay pled guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape. She was sentenced to spend 80 more days in jail, and enrolled in a sexual deviancy treatment program. She was released from jail early (January 6, 1998), for good behavior, and was forbidden from seeing Fualaau.

On February 3, 1998 police discovered Letourneau having sexual intercourse in a car with Fualaau and arrested her for violating the conditions of her suspended sentence. She had also failed to complete her sexual deviancy treatment program. The original sentence of 89 months was reimposed.

In March, 1998, it was revealed that Letourneau was again pregnant with Fualaau's child: their second daughter is born in October 1998.

Steve Letourneau filed for divorce in May 1999 and has custody of his four children.

The sentence imposed on Mary Kay Letourneau was the subject of much debate: because the raped child was male some consider the offense lesser than if he were female: the law does not. Mary Kay's subsequent comments make clear that she believes she has done nothing wrong.

In 2000 Fualaau and his mother sued the town he attended school in for emotional suffering, lost wages, and the costs of rearing his two children, claiming the school had failed to protect him for Letourneau's sexual advances. The jury found against them and no damages were awarded.

Mary Kay and her child-lover wrote a book together, Un seul crime, l'amour by Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, published in France, from which they earned some $200,000. The episode also inspired a "true crime" book, If Loving You Is Wrong, by Gregg Olsen, The Mary Kay Letourneau Affair by James Robinson, a television movie in 2000, The Mary Kay Letourneau Story: All American Girl, an A&E Biography episode Mary Kay Letourneau: Out of Bounds, and a Court-TV documentary, Mary Kay Latourneau: Forbidden Desire.

Mary Kay Letourneau will be eligible for parole in 2004.

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