Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have come so fast and steady that they feel like an official daily briefing. But they are an underground river in which fact and gossip and memory spin past the truth and flow straight through any number of agendas. Lewinsky's lawyers want to keep their client out of jail. The President's men want to keep their man in office. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr wants to keep his investigation moving, and the leaks have a way of flushing out witnesses he may not know about. And all sorts of other lawyers and witnesses, dreaming of fame and fortune, have...
...able to walk in a park, go shopping at Target or on Rodeo Drive or Connecticut Avenue? Monica has been branded with a scarlet letter, an A for adultery. Now will she be branded with an I for indictment, a C for conviction and a J for jail? For what? Why is the world saying that she has the government of the U.S. in her hands...
...Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, a former schoolteacher who last August pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape for having a sexual relationship (and a baby) with a former student, a 13-year-old boy. LeTourneau had been released from jail last month, her 7 1/2-year sentence commuted to six months on the strict condition that she never contact her young lover. But when police investigated her car before dawn last Tuesday, they saw that she was with the boy. They also found $6,200 in cash, new men's and infant's clothing and LeTourneau's passport...
LeTourneau was arrested and, after a court hearing, was hauled back to jail to serve her full sentence. Judge Linda Lau called LeTourneau's violations "egregious and profoundly disturbing." And Seattle-based sociologist Pepper Schwartz spoke for many parents when he observed, "To have a teacher take a child for herself is a serious act of treachery." Some medical experts who examined LeTourneau, however, protest that she is mentally ill in a way not typical of child molesters. She violated the terms of her release, they say, because she did not get the right treatment...
...decided to "bond" by having a baby. But in February 1997, a pregnant LeTourneau, turned in by one of her husband's relatives, was arrested and pleaded guilty. After baby Audrey was born in May, LeTourneau was sent to jail...