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She was convicted of statutory rape and served seven years in prison. BackgroundMary Kay's father was John G. Schmitz, a Roman Catholic U.S. Congressman from Orange County, California and a professor at Santa Ana College. He was generally considered one of the more conservative members of the House, and ran for President of the United States in 1972 on the ultra-conservative American Independent Party ticket. Her mother Mary Schmitz was a homemaker and anti-feminist activist. Mary Kay is one of seven children born to John and Mary, and she has two half-siblings that were the result of a longtime affair between her father and his mistress. One of her brothers served as White House counsel in the George H. W. Bush administration. Another, Joseph E. Schmitz, was appointed Inspector General of the Department of Defense by George W. Bush. Mary Kay Schmitz married Steve Letourneau on June 30, 1984. The couple had two daughters and two sons together.
The teacher-student relationshipLetourneau first met Vili Fualaau (born June 26, 1983) when he was a student in her second grade class at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien, Washington. He was eight years old; she was 28. She was his teacher again in the sixth grade, and she had sex with him during the summer of 1996, when he was 13. Her husband became aware of the situation and revealed it to family members when he read their letters to each other in February 1997. His cousin reported the relationship to local child protection services.
Legal mattersOn February 26, 1997, Mary Kay was arrested for statutory rape, called "child rape" in Washington. Four months later, she gave birth to daughter Audrey Lokelani, who was fathered by her former student. On August 7, 1997, she pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree statutory rape. She was sentenced to 89 months in prison by Judge Linda Lau. The prison term was suspended and she was sentenced to serve six months in county jail and enroll in a three-year sexual deviancy treatment program. She was released from jail early (January 1, 1998) for good behavior, and as a condition was forbidden from seeing Fualaau; however, on February 3, 1998, police discovered Letourneau in a car with Fualaau and arrested her for violating the conditions of her suspended sentence. She had also failed to comply with her sexual deviancy treatment program. In the car police found $6,500 in cash, baby clothes, and a passport, indicating that she planned to leave the country. The original sentence of seven and a half years was reimposed.
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