Posted on 05/19/2005 9:25:03 PM PDT by Nachum
Her father is a politician or former politician. It's amazing how you can find money for extravagant things when you have family members who are politicians.
Isn't her father deceased?
Mary Kay's father -- once a prominent political figure in California -- himself developed a sexual relationship with one of his students, yielding two illegitimate children. Mary Kay's mother was an outspoken opponent of equal rights who regularly pulled her daughter from class whenever the topic of sexual education was scheduled to be introduced.
On one Free For All, Mary Schmitz made an impassioned plea for the importance of marriage and the family on the program just a few weeks before a sex scandal involving her husband broke.
It turned out that John Schmitz, champion of traditional morals and family values, had been having a longtime affair with a former student of his named Carla Stuckle. What's more, he had fathered two out-of-wedlock children with her.
The second family of John Schmitz became public knowledge because Carla was suspected of having abused or neglected her first child by John, a boy she had named John George.
Carla Stuckle, then 43, phoned her adult daughter from a previous marriage, Carla Larson, to tell her of some distressing news about John George, then an infant. Stuckle wept as she told her that the little boy's penis had been injured and would require surgery. "I took him to the doctor," Carla Stuckle sobbed. "He said the baby has a hair wrapped around his penis and it had been there for some time."
"Oh, my God!" Larson shouted. "Don't you ever bathe him? How could this have happened?"
"I don't know," said her mother.
Later, Stuckle called her daughter with more bad news. The surgery had gone well and John George would suffer no lasting damage. But Stuckle wasn't being allowed to take the baby home.
Bits of hair or other fibers often get trapped in babies' diapers and can cause infections and other ills. But at least one physician treating John George had become convinced that the boy had had a hair deliberately wrapped around the organ. He would recall it as being "tied in a square knot."
Child abuse investigators went to Stuckle's home. Still caring for her second child by Schmitz, a daughter named Eugenie, the woman appeared worn and frazzled. She had diabetes and worked long hours in two different jobs to support her youngsters in addition to caring for them. She answered all the questions that investigators put to her until they started asking about the children's father. She did not want to drag him into this.
"Until we find out and get this thing all done," a detective told her, "you're going to jail. Chances are you'll never see your son again. . . ."
"Well, it's John Schmitz," she said.
"John Schmitz," repeated the flabbergasted officer.
"John Schmitz, the state senator," she calmly stated.
Detectives thought the woman was almost certainly lying. Perhaps she wanted to make trouble for the outspokenly pro-family politician. Maybe she was deluded. But they had to check it out.
A detective took the politician aside at a John Birch Society meeting. "Well, is it your son?" the officer asked, after explaining why he was there.
"Yes, he is," Schmitz replied, "but I do not and will not support him financially. It is her responsibility to take care of him." He said he knew nothing of the hair on the boy's penis or how it happened.
Soon the second family of John Schmitz made headlines throughout the country. His political career was over. So was his wife's stint as a political commentator. However, their marriage survived. The couple separated for a period, then reconciled.
Investigators concluded there was not enough evidence to charge Stuckle with child abuse or neglect. John George was returned to her care. In 1994, Stuckle died from complications from the diabetes that had long ravaged her. John George was 13, his sister, 11. John Schmitz had no desire for custody of his two youngest children. The famous psychic Jeanne Dixon, who was a close friend of Mary Schmitz, took them in. When Dixon died in 1997, the children became wards of the state and went to an orphanage.
In the shadow of this scandal, Mary Kay took her father's side. She told friends of hers that her mother was a cold person and denied her father the affection he needed and deserved as a husband. When talking about it, she would comment, "She drove him to it."
She did not allow herself to become obsessed by the scandal swirling around her beloved father. She had her own life to live and she was enjoying it as a college student at Arizona State University. There she continued her party-animal ways.
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At the time of his daughter's scandal, it was revealed that John Schmitz had left politics, and was selling souvenirs at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station. He had also bought the home of his hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The death of former Congressman John G. Schmitz, January 10, 2001.
"I have a cousin who married a woman 20 years his senior. She was already quite wrinkled. Last I heard, they were still together, still married, and still happy.
You got a problem widdat?"
It's Friday, I've got no problem with anything. However, I'd bet that your cousin wasn't 12 when he met his wife.
Nope. About 35-40, IIRC.
;^)
Don King should be seeking to secure the rights to a celebrity boxing match between Mary K and Tonya Harding. He could build a whole card around it.
Do we know if it is a Judeo-Christian wedding or just some JoP or Elvis Impersonator?>>>>>>>>
Christian-
The celebration will not only be big; it will be traditional, Spencer says. Fualaau will be wearing a tuxedo. Their two children are expected to be flower girls. And they're working on their vows.
Answered Letourneau, "My mother, I know, will, she will share in our joy. But there still is that life, the philosophy she has, which is very Catholic, that, she will recognize our marriage when it is a Catholic ceremony."
Fualaau hesitated, but said his mother will attend.
Not only will their mothers be there, Letourneau's four older children also intend to be, Spencer says. And there are rumors her oldest son, who is near Fualaau's age, even plans to go to the bachelor party.
Smith remarked that a lot of people think this relationship isn't proper, even if they're getting married. He wanted to know if they seem to be aware that much of America perceives them in a negative light.
Spencer says their response all along has been: This is right for them, for their lives. They don't really concern themselves with what other people think. She's served her time, and all they ask is "for peace."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/03/earlyshow/main692538_page2.shtml
The 4 older kids will be there? And the son who is the grooms age will attend the bachelor party? One big happy circus....
You missed my point.LOL
Watching Fualaau's family right now on ET (no i dont usually watch it, just remote surfing)
Theyre all attending his wedding and looked thrilled and very jovial.
My point was that to him and his culture it's not such a big deal.
And by it I mean men having sex at young age and getting married at young age.
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