Mary Kay Letourneau, jailed for raping
underage student she later married, dies
Posted By: Maggie2u, 7/8/2020 1:33:21 AM
Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle-area schoolteacher who was at the center of a national scandal in the 1990s when she was convicted of raping her sixth-grade student whom she later married, has died, her attorney confirmed to KOMO News Tuesday night. Letourneau lost a battle with cancer, her attorney, David Gehrke, said. Letourneau was a former Highline teacher who passed away after being ill for some time. She was 58. "It was expected but sad anyway," Gehrke said. "She was a good person.“Letourneau generated international headlines when she admitted to a relationship with Vili Fualaau, who was her sixth-grade student at the time.
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She was one sick puppy and should have spent a lot more time in prison than 7 years.