Mary Kay Letourneau, an educator who wedded her previous 6th-grade understudy after she was sentenced for raping him for a situation that drew worldwide headlines, died. She was 58.
Her legal advisor David Gehrke told different media sources Letourneau lost her life Tuesday of cancer. He didn't promptly restore an email from The Associated Press.
Letourneau was a married mother of four in 1996 when she taught 12-year-old Vili Fualaau in her group at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, a south Seattle suburb.
Police found them at about 1:20 a.m. on June 19, 1996, stopped in a minivan at the Des Moines Marina.
Letourneau, at that point 34, at first told officials the kid was 18, raising doubts that something sexual was going on. At the police headquarters, Fualaau and Letourneau denied there had been any "touching." They guaranteed Letourneau had been watching the kid and took him from her home after she and her husband had a fight.
Around two months after the fact, the proof was irrefutable: Letourneau was pregnant. They had a girl, and afterward, another, born in 1998 after Letourneau had confessed to child assault yet before she started serving a 7 1/2-year jail term.
Letourneau and Fualaau got married on May 20, 2005, in Woodinville, Washington, after her discharge.
Fualaau and Letourneau portrayed their relationship as one of adoration by then, in any event, composing a book together, "Un Seul Crime, L'Amour," or "Only One Crime, Love." Their story turned into the subject of a USA Network film, "All American Girl."
Be that as it may, it didn't endure forever: King County court records show Fualaau requested a lawful detachment from Letourneau on May 9, 2017.
