SEATTLE - Mary Kay Letourneau died at age 58 after a battle with cancer, her attorney David Gehrke confirmed to Q13 News on Tuesday.Letourneau is a former Seattle teacher at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien who became tabloid fodder when she was convicted in 1997 of raping the then 12-year-old Vili Fualaau.
She was 34 and a married mother of four when the relationship began.On Tuesday evening, Letourneau's former attorney David Gehrke spoke with Q13 News about the her passing.
Gehrke said she always struggled to accept what she'd done was against the law. But he said she told him one day she'd have a big happy family with Falualulu, but he said it would never be possible.This past year when Gehreke went to visit her, he admitted he had.