Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prosecutors chose the assault charge because it carries a penalty of up to life in prison; attempted murder is limited to 15 years. In the Roman myth, one of Saturn's children escapes to depose him; in Missouri, Stewart could be put away for life by the son he may have tried to destroy...
Within weeks of these musings, brutal reality set in. In August, Letourneau was taken into custody; in November, she was sentenced to seven years and five months in prison for having sex with Vili. And though Judge Linda Lau initially suspended the sentence, her leniency imposed an impossible condition: Letourneau must not have contact with Vili. In February, Lau learned that police had caught Mary and Vili together. Livid, she reimposed the sentence and sent Letourneau to prison...
Though Mary and Vili kissed and touched, they mainly talked that night. He needed to vent. He was a normal kid with school pressures, three older siblings, a hard-working mom and a dad in prison, and now--he still couldn't believe it sometimes--a baby. Vili has had trouble at school, and he was arrested on a minor robbery charge last year. Few people listened. Letourneau, his soul mate...
...fiction, it is, in this instance, also harsher. Mary, 37, is pregnant again, and her and Vili's second child, when it is born, will be Exhibit A in the likely case that the local prosecutor will bring fresh charges of rape against her. Though she has persuaded her prison keepers that she is ill enough to stay in the infirmary--which is equipped with a phone that she uses constantly--prison is still a terrible place to be pregnant. The appeal of her original case will take weeks just to plan, weeks more to be heard, weeks more...
While serving time in a prison camp, Wang saidhe read Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P.Hungtington's Clash of Civilizations andGoldman's Sowing the Seeds of Democracy inChina, which features Wang in his role as aleader in the 1989 demonstrations...