Notorious ex-teacher to marry victim
LeTourneau served 7 and a half years for raping her ex-student
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:56 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2005
SEATTLE - Mary Kay Letourneau plans to marry the former sixth-grade pupil with whom she had two children, months after her release from prison for raping him, according to an online bridal registry.
Letourneau, 43, and Vili Fualaau, 22, set a wedding date of April 16, according to their registry at a department store. Letourneau served 7½ years on a 1997 conviction for raping Fualaau, who has said in the past that he hoped to wed his former teacher.
“It’s been long overdue,” Noel Soriano, a friend of the couple, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a story published Monday. “It’s going to be fabulous, seeing them get hitched finally.”
A lawyer for Fualaau and a friend of Letourneau did not immediately return calls Monday seeking further comment.
Letourneau was a 34-year-old married mother of four when she began a sexual relationship with her then-12-year-old elementary school student in 1996. She was pregnant with Fualaau’s first child when she was arrested in 1997 and ordered to serve a six-month sentence for second-degree child rape.
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LeTourneau served 7 and a half years for raping her ex-student
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:56 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2005
SEATTLE - Mary Kay Letourneau plans to marry the former sixth-grade pupil with whom she had two children, months after her release from prison for raping him, according to an online bridal registry.
Letourneau, 43, and Vili Fualaau, 22, set a wedding date of April 16, according to their registry at a department store. Letourneau served 7½ years on a 1997 conviction for raping Fualaau, who has said in the past that he hoped to wed his former teacher.
“It’s been long overdue,” Noel Soriano, a friend of the couple, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a story published Monday. “It’s going to be fabulous, seeing them get hitched finally.”
A lawyer for Fualaau and a friend of Letourneau did not immediately return calls Monday seeking further comment.
Letourneau was a 34-year-old married mother of four when she began a sexual relationship with her then-12-year-old elementary school student in 1996. She was pregnant with Fualaau’s first child when she was arrested in 1997 and ordered to serve a six-month sentence for second-degree child rape.
To read rest of article, click here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6967449
Nancy