Pretty grade school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau in 1997 was convicted of statutory rape for having sex with a student, which began when she was 34 and the boy, only 12. She became pregnant and had the boy's child in 1997. Her sentence was 89 months in prison. That sentence was reduced to 6 months in jail, and she was released early, in 1998. Part of her release order specified that she and the young man have no contact with each other. The couple failed to abide by this order, and she again became pregnant. At that point, her sentence was reimposed.
The couple had first known each other when she was his second-grade teacher. They were again thrown together when the boy, Vili Letourneau, was in her sixth-grade class.
The amorous and reportedly bipolar teacher was released in 2004, and the next year, she and darkly handsome Letourneau, then in his early 20s, married.
Sometimes the mysteries of the heart are mysterious indeed.
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