July 8, 2020 @ 4:47 pm
Northwest News
SEATTLE (AP) — Mary Kay Letourneau, who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted of raping him, has died. She was 58.
Her lawyer David Gehrke told news outlets Letourneau died Tuesday of cancer.
Letourneau was a former teacher in suburban Seattle when she pleaded guilty in 1997 to raping Vili Fualaau, who was 12. At the time, Letourneau was a married mother of four.
Letourneau and Fualaau married in 2005 in Woodinville, after she served a 7½-year prison term for child rape.
They had two daughters together. Fualaau filed for a legal separation from Letourneau in 2017.