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Mary Kate Letourneau Teacher-Student Affair 20 Years Later

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In February 1997, school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau was caught having “a sexual affair with Vili Fualaau, a 13-year-old boy in the class she taught.” Their relationship started that previous summer, and at the time of her arrest, she was 35 and pregnant with Fualaau’s child.

Letourneau gave birth to a baby girl, named Audrey, in May 1997. Three months later, Letourneau pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree rape,” according to Bio.com. She was released from prison after serving 80 days, but was sent back to jail after being caught once again with Fualaau. In October 1998, while serving her second sentence in prison, Letourneau gave birth to her and Fualaau’s second daughter, Georgia.

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Letourneau was released from prison in 2004 and married Fualaau a year later. Fualaau has since worked as a DJ, even hosting “a series of ‘Hot for Teacher’ nights at a local club in 2009.”

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Ten years after their wedding anniversary, their daughters, Audrey and Georgia, “attend school and sing in a choir in the same district in Seattle where their mother had once taught.”

The illicit nature behind their parents’ relationship was never a big deal for Audrey and Georgia. “There was never a sit-down chat, ‘Now is the time we’re going to talk to our children about this,” Letourneau said in an interview with Barbara Walters on 20/20. “They seemed to already know… because they grew up with it. …There’s just never been a ‘Wow, we better explain.'”

For Fualaau, the marriage hasn’t always been easy. “I don’t think there’s ever a full 10 good years of marriage,” Fualaau said. “You have your ups and downs in marriages. But, you know, what matters is how you pull through all the bad times.”

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As for raising kids as a teenager, Fualaau was all alone. “I don’t feel like I had the right support or the right help behind me,” he said. “From my family, from anyone in general. I mean, my friends couldn’t help me because they had no idea what, what it was like to be a parent, I mean, because we were all 14, 15.”

Letourneau hopes to get her status as a registered sex offender lifted, and has expressed a desire to return to teaching.

When asked how he would feel if his daughters were having a relationship with their teacher, Fualaau responded, “I don’t support younger kids being married or having a relationship with someone older. I don’t support it.”

Source: GUFF

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