
Letourneau: I wouldn’t want my daughters dating their teacher
Story here. Well of course not. But for her, that isn't the question. It's more like would she be the teacher who is "dating" the student? We already know the answer to that and so does her husband: the boy she started "having sex with" when he was only 12. Excerpt:
'It’s been more than 13 years since former Seattle schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau made international headlines when it was revealed that she was having a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau — a relationship that netted her a seven-year prison sentence for child rape.
Today she’s 48-year-old Mary Fualaau: married to that former student, raising two daughters, and she recently greeted her first grandchild, a girl. And she has a word of advice for her daughters: “Wait.”
“You want your children to wait,” Letourneau told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira in an exclusive interview Friday. “You want them to be productive adults, to get an education first, and experience all sorts of actual fun.” And that’s especially true if those children are girls, she said (hers are 12 and 13).
It’s not that Letourneau, who was a married mother of four when she became pregnant in 1997 with the child of Vili Fualaau, who had by then turned 13, believes it’s appropriate for underage boys to be sexually active. “In an ideal world, nobody would say that’s OK,” she said.'
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