Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student, dies of cancer at 58

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Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher jailed for raping student, dies

Seattle – Mary Kay Letourneau, a teacher who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted of raping him in a case that drew international headlines, has died. She was 58.

Her lawyer David Gehrke told multiple news outlets Letourneau died Tuesday of cancer. He did not immediately return an email from The Associated Press.

Letourneau was a married mother of four in 1996 when Vili Fualaau was a 12-year-old in Letourneau’s class at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, a south Seattle suburb...
 
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