Posted on 04/10/2015 12:56:07 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
When Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau was forced to go public in 1997 with an affair she was having with her former sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau, after she became pregnant with his child, it was the teacher-student sex scandal heard around the world.
At the time, Mary was a 34-year-old, married teacher in Seattle, who already had four children of her own. Vili was just 13 years old. Mary was arrested and served seven and a half years in prison.
Today, Mary is 53 and Vili is 31. The couple is still together and are about to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The two daughters they have together are now teenagers -- older than Vili was when the affair started.
Mary and Vili sat down for an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters to talk about how they managed to stay together all these years, despite their very public and forbidden relationship.
If it wasn't strong enough in the beginning, it wouldn't have carried through those years, Mary told Walters.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Yep...definitely.
“I wonder if she even sees her other children.”
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Reading the article can be very informative.
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You truly believe a teacher, 18 years older, who fell in love with one of his students in the 1920’s was normal?
It was unheard of.
Actually Mary Kay’s father wasn’t a liberal. He was a member of the John Birch Society and was a congressman from California. He also ran for president as a candidate for the American Party.
Now that was a circus. Even the marriage didn’t last that long. I believe he was claiming that Liza threw something at him. LOL
She’s fifty three and still wearing a micro mini skirt? This woman is terrified of aging.
I used to think this story couldn’t get any more disgusting. I was wrong;
Why does the press glamorize this crap?
You and me too where’s the Barfeteria?
The old man (Schmitz) ran on the American Independent Party ticket in 1972 after George Wallace was shot. Schmitz was a solid conservative and was the first candidate I was eligible to vote for—preferable to Nixon and certainly to McGovern.
Who in their right mind would let their kid be tutored or take piano lessons from someone like this?
Well it is Seattle, right?
Go back and read your history. Confederate and Union veterans were marrying 14 & 16 year old girls in their 60’s,70’s and even 80’s.
It not unheard of for men to be marrying girls from 14 years old on up in a multitude of places all through history.
Lord you see men today in their 60’s or older marrying young girls 18 or older.
You must not be much of a student of history or an observer of society in general.
I had a business acquaintance who lived in an area of Kentucky where 18 year old women regularly married middle-aged guys. He was 45 and divorced at the time, and wanted no part of that (”I ended up re-marrying a woman who was 35, and I could barely keep up with her!”)
Georgian first name, Samoan last name?
He wasn’t a solid conservative. He was out on the fringe.
Well, I thought he was at the time.
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