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Rebecca Cook, Associated Press
August 4, 2004 MARYKAY0805


GIG HARBOR, Wash. -- Mary Kay Letourneau, the grade school teacher convicted for having sex with a sixth-grade pupil, was released from prison early today, and her now 21-year-old former lover plans to challenge a court order that bars her from contacting him, a friend said.

``He's relieved that she's out of prison and currently he can't wait to see her,'' Noel Soriano told NBC's ``Today'' show.

Letourneau, who served 71/2/ years in prison, slipped unnoticed past the hordes of reporters and gawkers outside the Washington Corrections Center for Women before dawn.

As a condition of her release, Letourneau, 42, can't contact former pupil Vili Fualaau, the father of two of her children.

Soriano told NBC that Fualaau plans to ask a judge to dissolve that no-contact order later today.

Letourneau, who sang in the choir and recorded books-on-tape for the blind while in prison, wants to try to build a normal life, said Seattle attorney Anne Bremner, who struck up a friendship with Letourneau in 2002 and spoke to her recently by phone. ``She wants to be a mother, she wants to be a responsible member of society.''

As a sex offender, Letourneau will have to register with the state and receive court-ordered treatment. Authorities will notify her new neighbors - although the TV trucks will probably tip them off first. More than seven years in prison has done little to dim Letourneau's notoriety.

A small crowd gathered outside the prison gates on Tuesday night - a few families and some rowdy teenage boys flaunting signs that said ``I'm 18, Baby'' and ``Take Me Home'' for the TV cameras.

Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher in suburban Seattle and a married mother of four in 1996 when her friendship with the then-12-year-old Fualaau mutated into flirtation and then sex.

The illicit relationship was revealed when Letourneau's husband, Steve, found love letters from the boy. Steve Letourneau later moved to Alaska with the couple's children and was granted a divorce.

When Letourneau was arrested in 1997, she was already pregnant with Fualaau's daughter. A judge sentenced her to six months in jail for second-degree child rape, and ordered her to stay away from Fualaau.

But the temptation proved too much for her to resist. A month after Letourneau was released, she was caught having sex with Fualaau in her car, a violation of her parole. She was sent to prison for seven and a half years, and gave birth to Fualaau's second daughter behind bars.

``This case is not about a flawed system. This is about an opportunity that you foolishly squandered,'' King County Superior Court Judge Linda Lau told Letourneau at her sentencing, referring to the lenient terms she had earlier imposed.

Letourneau's two daughters with Fualaau are now 5 and 7. They visited her in prison about twice a month. Her four older children visited a few times a year.

Letourneau may now want to tell her own story. A state appeals court ruled in 2000 that she may sell and profit from her story. She has also expressed interest in working for a group that advocates for the rights of mothers in prison.

As for trying to reconnect with Fualaau, Letourneau was mum. ``I'm not allowing myself to think about being with him,'' Letourneau told Seattle's KOMO-TV earlier this week. ``We had a beautiful relationship, and I value it for what it was.''

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Letourneau or her lawyers were unsuccessful.

Fualaau told People magazine recently that he'd like to reunite with Letourneau, but wants to take things slowly. He is unemployed and told the magazine he is working on his GED. His mother is raising their children. Fualaau's phone number is unlisted.

``I don't know what my feelings are right now,'' Fualaau told KING-TV on Tuesday, acknowledging he was ``kind of nervous.''

``But I know that I do love her,'' he said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/04/teacher.sex/

deafdyke

I gotta say one thing about that relationship......EWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

Fualaau sounds a lot like the people my mom works with. Was he one of those loner types? If so even thou the sexes have been switched that would make this a VERY classic case of child sex abuse. Pedophilles tend to prey on the kids who are loners.
I'm openminded....but there is no way that a twelve year old can consent to sex!
I bet you ANYTHING Fualaau is a very stereotypical victim of sex abuse, and can't form a good relationship. Or maybe he grew up in a very dysfunctional family and was never exposed to healthy relationship role models.

VamPyroX

Damn, that's fucked up! What the hell do these people see in each other?

Hmm... I wonder if he will dump her and fall in love with another 14 year old when he's older!

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Defee

What was he DOING while she was in prison for 7 years?????
He surely didnt stay celibate waiting for her??....i seriously doubt it..
hes a young man ya know...i bet he had girlfriends.....
I bet she will drop him for a 14 year old boy...i wouldnt doubt it!!

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Oceanbreeze

From the way it sounds, HE WAS waiting for her all that time! And, that is pretty sick. He is now 21, so he can pretty much decide for himself what kind of relationship he has with her now. And, lets not forget, they have two children together. It has also been reported that he is going to go to court to have the restraining order against her dissolved, which would enable them to be together. As it stands now, with that order in place, she is not allowed to have any kind of contact with him.

I agree with what someone said above. He was sexually abused, and probably has a lot of problems as a result. This person is screwed up probably for life. And, that is sad. But, you know...As sick as this sounds ...He's 21, and if he wants to be with her, I don't know of anyone that can stop that now.

This is all just a bit too strange for me....

BigSpike

In my own opinion, I bet this 2 children of 13 years old boy who is currently 21 years old will learn the truth when they are full grown and realize how sickening of teacher get bonked by boy. The 21 year old man waiting for his own "soulmate" to be released...what kind of mental he get? I am not surprise he became heavily obessed with his former teacher about the night of sex. The world is getting more sick than ever.

Angel

I honestly can say that some children do have this sort of a crush on teachers but I never thought it would go this far, I'm kind of disappointed that Mary Kay had to go this far by having sex with a 12 years old student of hers and destory her marriage and her children, I did saw a movie about this and I'm not sure if she ever saw her children while she was in prison, Sometimes I wonder if she really do care about her children if she does she would have waited until that boy was old enough to be with than destorying her chance to be with her children...Now she has two other children by this young boy, I think she needs to get her act together once again and firgure out what she is going to do by getting closer to her children again and how she can be a better mom for them than worry about her lover!!!!

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Lasza

Mary Kay Letourneau and former student set wedding date

Nancy

See here: http://www.alldeaf.com/current-events/14617-notorious-ex-teacher-marry-victim.html

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