Word: letourneau
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...Mary K. Letourneau sat on the steps in front of her home, staring west across a glorious sunset over Puget Sound. Inside with a friend was baby Audrey Lokelani, Mary's fifth child and her first with Vili Fualaau, the teenager she has become so infamous for loving. It was a breezy summer's eve, and she could smell the fresh-cut grass on her lawn. She squinted into a blazing horizon. "I had a dream last night," she said, speaking to a neighbor. "I dreamed I was sitting here watching the sunset. And I sat there and sat there...
That was last summer, before her life spun completely out of control, before it was again and again on Oprah and Dateline and Geraldo, before it was retold (and often mistold) in papers from the New York Times to the tabloids. Letourneau's relationship with Vili, who turns 15 in June, as well as her conviction and imprisonment, have drawn international attention. The BBC has come to Seattle to film a documentary. Her image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster; so blond, so pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated...
EXPECTING. MARY KAYE LETOURNEAU, 36, schoolteacher who last month was ordered to serve her suspended 7 1/2 year child-rape sentence for meeting the 14-year old student with whom she has a nine-month old daughter. She may face new charges if the boy is again the father...
...says he loves LeTourneau and objects to being called a "victim." LeTourneau, now on suicide watch, is without medication or therapy. And there is no assurance, say her doctors and lawyer, that she will get either one in prison...
...drugs like Depakote produce side effects like nausea. And manic depressives, remembering the high of hypomania, are prone to dump their medicine. Within days after her January release, her friends reported, LeTourneau stopped taking Depakote and planned to see a "naturopath" instead. She quarreled with the doctors in her treatment program. Within weeks, she was in her car with her illicit young lover, kissing and talking, fully clothed, until they were discovered by police...