The Seattle area teacher married her former 6th grade student after being convicted of raping him.
Mary Kay Letourneau, who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted for raping him, 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 having difficulties with her marriage in 1996 when Vili Fualaau was a precocious 12-year-old in Letourneau’s class at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, a south Seattle suburb.
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