Obituary: Mary Kay Letourneau

Infamous teacher and sex predator who later married the young boy she preyed upon and with whom she had two children,  Mary Kay Letourneau,  has reportedly died of cancer.  She was 58 and before she died, second husband and victim, Vili Fualaau, filed for a legal separation.  According to the article, he was with her when she died and had been taking care of her during her final illness.

Mary Kay with ex-husband Vili and their daughters

Letourneau had a host of mental issues, there is no question of it.  I remember the 20/20 interview she gave with Vili, and I felt terrible for him.  I wrote about it here, although the video has since disappeared, probably due to a copyright strike.

Letourneau died fairly suddenly in her home late Monday, her former attorney David Gehrke told CNN. Most of her family was with her, including Vili Fualaau, her former student and ex-husband who was giving her 24-hour care the last month of her life.

The two met when Letourneau was a 34-year-old teacher in Seattle. She was married with four children when she began an affair with Fualaau, her 13-year-old student in 1996.

It was clear from the interview he had been badly damaged from the situation. Little wonder he filed for a legal separation.

Letourneau was a daughter of one-time representative John Schmitz, who once ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket, and who himself went down in a sex scandal involving a woman who had been a student at the community college where he taught and had two children with her.  Unfortunately, the woman died, and, if I remember correctly, Schmitz didn't acknowledge them enough to have taken custody following their mother's death.  Schmitz has since died.

Schmitz was a radical right politician from Orange County, California,  a John Bircher.  He is mentioned in Claire Conner's excellent memoir, Wrapped in the Flag. 


New York Times:

Anne Bremner, a lawyer who has been friends with Ms. Letourneau for nearly 20 years, said Ms. Letourneau hoped in her death that people would be able to see her as someone who had served her time and gone on to raise two daughters with Mr. Fualaau and have a positive impact on the people around her.

“She was always a really good person,” Ms. Bremner said. “She was always a really good friend.”

Ms. Letourneau is survived by six children, four by a previous marriage.

Daily Mail:

Their illegal relationship was uncovered by Letourneau's husband at the time, Steve Letourneau, who found love letters exchanged between the pair and alerted school officials.

After Letourneau was arrested and charged with statutory rape, Steve filed for divorce. He received sole custody of their four children and moved the family to Alaska.

Letourneau was initially was sentenced to three months in jail as part of a plea agreement in 1997, in which she agreed to no longer have any contact with Fualaau. She was pregnant with her former student's child at the time of her conviction.

Letourneau was then paroled in 1998. However, shortly after her release from jail, she was found in a car having sex with Fualaau and was ordered to serve seven years in prison on second-degree child rape charges.

Letourneau reportedly died of colon cancer.  This is something I don't wish on anybody.  My brother Jim died of the disease back in 1989.  He was gone in less than four months after diagnosis.  He had never been sick a day in his life, and then all of a sudden he felt he had the flu he couldn't shake.  He went to the doctor, a man who had such a wonderful bedside manner he said my brother "wouldn't last six months."  His cancer had spread all over his body and nothing was removed.

Throw Up Time

Convicted pedophile Mary Kay Letourneau still doesn't think what she did to Vili Fualaau was wrong.

She basically destroyed his life.  Sure, she married him, and they are still together, but I saw the 20/20 interview of a few years ago, and he was a man completely defeated.

What a tragedy for him.

Even if she got her name off the sex offenders registry, what good would it do?  People still have the internet.  She still has her great, big mouth to brag about the "love" she has for her victim.  People will not change their minds.

They have two daughters together.  They are pictured in the article.  They are nice looking young women who have no idea how utterly depraved their mother is.

Their mother, though, learned from the master.  Her daddy, onetime congressman John Schmitz, was a noted philanderer and had kids out of wedlock.  He is dead as well as the young woman he impregnated years ago.

Today, Letourneau works as a paralegal at the same court where she faced trial 21 years ago.

She hopes use her new skills in her fight to remove her name from the sex offenders' registry.

Fualaau filed for separation from Letourneau in 2017, but later withdrew the request, despite admitting to Sunday Night there are problems within their marriage.

The now 35-year-old said he had thought about leaving the relationship.

He is so trapped in this relationship with a mentally ill woman. I feel total sympathy for him and his daughters.

As for his wife, none whatsoever.

Here is the interview I am talking about. I hope it stays up for a long time:

She is Batshit Crazy

Mary Kay Letourneau is batshit crazy. After the despicable 20/20 interview she and the student she molested and then married ten years ago Vili Fualaau gave to Barbara Walters, there is absolutely no doubt about it.

It's really hard to sit through this pile of crap interview, especially if one has been a teacher or is currently one or works in education. MKL at one point (from an earlier interview, I believe) talked about how she realized Fualaau had a crush on her, but she was ETHICALLY OBLIGATED to have reported that to her superiors. In Oregon you can have your license sanctioned just for failing to do that. I am sure the same is true in Washington state (by the way, her license revocation is not on the Washington state ed board website--license sanctions go back only to 2000). But what does this stupid woman do? She reciprocates, and at that point destroys this poor kid's life.

I have tremendous compassion for Vili Fualaau. He was molested by somebody who clearly was not right in the head to begin with, and then on top of that was in a position of authority. His life was destroyed because of her. He has dealt with alcohol abuse, depression, and affairs because of what this woman did to him. She stole his childhood, and, on top of that, she went ahead and had two children with him when he was in NO POSITION WHATSOEVER TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEM. His family had to raise those girls until MKL got out of prison in around 2004.

There are so many victims of this unstable, vile woman: Vili, his family of origin, their two daughters, her family of origin (the Schmitzes), her ex-husband, and the four children from her first marriage. I am sure I have left out others whose lives she damaged. But hey, she has a happy family life with the man she molested as a youth. For Vili, who has aged so much that he looks to be close to her 53 years--and MKL looks every bit that--he no doubt knows his wife is crazy and stays with her for that and for those two teenage daughters.

This interview is an all-time low for ABC and Barbara Walters.

Pure Delusion

If Mary Kay LeTourneau thinks for one minute she will ever teach students ever again, she needs to be locked up in a nuthouse.

She and the husband she sexually abused when he was only 13 years old and she was a former teacher of his are going on 20/20 to talk to Barbara Walters about how she and Vili Fualaau are so happy. Granted, their two daughters are nice looking and everything, but one wonders what they think about this whole mess.

More to the point, what do her ex-husband and her four children from THAT marriage think? After all, she destroyed their lives and upended Vili's family.

I will bet they weren't asked.

I plan to miss this show just like I will miss the upcoming Bruce Jenner interview.

My stomach can only take so much anymore.