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The famous former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, who raped her 12-year-old student and later married him, was plagued with remorse as she lay dying.
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Letourneau died of colon cancer in 2020 at the age of 58.
And in her final days, she was desperate to reconcile her life choices.
“The bottom line is that she understood on a very deep level that she had really ruined her life and the lives of many other people in 1996,” said an anonymous friend. People.
“She realized, although things turned out relatively well, that she was responsible for a wide swath of destruction for her actions. He apologized to a lot of people for a lot of things. “
Letourneau, an elementary school teacher in Washington state, shocked the United States when she pleaded guilty to rape in 1997. She had been having sex with Villi Fualaau, had violated her probation, and became pregnant with the boy’s children.
He served seven years in jail and registered as a sex offender. The couple married in 2005.
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But at the time of her romance with the boy, Letourneau was married with four children. Two years before he died, he said in an interview that he did not know that sex between adults and children was illegal.
“If I had known, if someone knows my personality, the idea that this would count as a crime,” he told Australia Channel seven. “If someone had told me, if someone had told me, there is a specific law that says this is a crime.”
Letourneau later said it was the boy who chased her, not the other way around. He filed for separation in 2017, but said he felt like he had “lost a part of himself” after she died.
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