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A teacher who was found guilty of raping her 12-year-old student and then marrying him years later has separated her property to her husband after his death at age 58.
Mary Kay Letourneau pleaded guilty to child rape after having a sexual relationship with Vili Fualaau, who was only 12 years old in 1996 when police discovered them in a minivan.
Upon their release from prison, the two were married on May 20, 2005.
Earlier this year, Letourneau died of advanced colon cancer at age 58.
It has now been revealed that Letourneau left his property to Mr. Fualaau and his two daughters even though the two were legally separated, People reported.
Mary Kay Letourneau has left her estate to her ex-husband, the student she was convicted of raping, and her two children. Source: AP
A source told People that Letourneau “loved Vili to the end” and received many sentimental items.
“She had built a life with him and he deserved to inherit what little he had,” the source said.
“They didn’t have a ton of money, but he and the girls are going to spread it out. They’re more interested in sentimental things, though.”
The relationship between Letourneau and Fualaau attracted international attention.
Letourneau and Vili Fualaau married after she was released from prison in 2005. Source: ABC News
Letourneau was a married mother of four in 1996 when she taught the then 12-year-old Mr. Fualaau in her class at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, a southern suburb of Seattle.
Police discovered them around 1:20 a.m. on June 19, 1996, parked in a minivan in the Des Moines Marina.
Letourneau, then 34, initially told officers the boy was 18 years old, raising suspicions that something sexual was going on.
At the police station, Mr. Fualaau and Letourneau denied that there had been any “contact”.
They claimed that Letourneau had been taking care of the boy and took him from their home after she and her husband had a fight.
About two months later, Letourneau was found to be pregnant. The two had a daughter and then another conceived in 1998 after she pleaded guilty to child rape, but before she began serving a prison term of more than seven years.
Letourneau died at age 58 of colon cancer in 2020. Source: Crime & Investigation / Fox
Fualaau’s mother filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging that the city and the school district failed to protect her son from the teacher.
But the defendants said the relationship was so strange that no one could have predicted it.
The district attorney said it started out of school after the academic year ended.
Police argued that they simply had no evidence of sexual abuse until it was too late. A jury found against the family.
The two were married from 2005 to 2017 when Fualaau requested a legal separation from Letourneau.
The two were seen together after the split and remained active in the lives of their older daughters, People reported.
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