All American Girl: Mary Kay Letourneau Story-Full Movie starring Penelope Ann Miller
This day in history: Mary Kay Letourneau (née Schmitz) was born on this day in 1962.
Letourneau was an American sex offender and teacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child. Letourneau was 34, and the child, Vili Fualaau, was 12 years old when she initiated the sexual abuse. He was her sixth-grade student at an elementary school in Burien, Washington. While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau's daughter. With the state seeking a seven and a half year prison sentence, she reached a plea agreement calling for six months in jail with three months suspended and no contact with Fualaau for life, among other terms. The case received national attention.
Shortly after Letourneau had completed three months in jail, the police caught her in a car with Fualaau. A judge revoked her plea agreement and reinstated the prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of seven and a half years. Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth to Fualaau's second child, another daughter. She was imprisoned from 1998 to 2004. Letourneau and Fualaau were married in May 2005, and the marriage lasted 14 years until their separation in 2019.
Other teachers who have married their students are Brigitte Trogneux, who married her student, Emmanuel Macron, who became President of France, in 2017, and Abigail Fillmore who married Millard Fillmore, a future President of the United States, and Jackie Battley, who married future U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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