Grim new allegation against teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau who raped then married student Vili Fualaau, 12

Rapist pedagogue Mary Kay LeTourneau has been accused by a erstwhile pupil of traumatizing an full sixth-grade people aft she sexually assaulted and joined her 12-year-old pupil Vili Fualaau. 

Caitlin Steed was successful the aforesaid Shorewood Elementary School people arsenic Fualaau erstwhile LeTourneau was caught having enactment with him successful a minivan successful Washington. 

Now, Steed, 41, said her full classes are inactive facing the trauma of that grim discovery. 

'She was a parent fig for america due to the fact that she was truthful nurturing,' she told the New York Post. 'And past we had to process each of this truly erstwhile we’re conscionable learning what enactment is each about.

'I deliberation a batch of america ended up successful counseling. She virtually messed up an full people of sixth-graders... We were trying to marque consciousness of it, and we missed our teacher.' 

LeTourneau, who died from crab successful 2020 astatine the property of 58, made headlines astir the satellite successful 1997, erstwhile the then-34-year-old teacher and mother-of-four was recovered to beryllium having an abusive intersexual narration with Fualaau. 

Letourneau met Fualaau erstwhile helium joined her second-grade people successful 1992, but they did not statesman their intersexual narration until 4 years aboriginal erstwhile helium was 12.

In 1996, aft the schoolhouse twelvemonth had ended, the brace enrolled successful summertime classes astatine the aforesaid assemblage assemblage and began spending much clip together.

One time aft class, the brace went retired for dinner. In a 2018 interview, Fualaau recalled that aft the repast helium asked to buss Letourneau wrong her car, which she accepted.

Letourneau past had enactment with Fualaau for archetypal clip aboriginal that summer, erstwhile her then-husband, Steve Letourneau, was retired of town.

On June 19, 1996, constabulary recovered the brace successful a minivan parked astatine the Des Moines Marina astir 1.30am. Letourneau was seen jumping into the beforehand spot arsenic officers approached the vehicle, portion Fualaau pretended to beryllium dormant successful the back.

Fualaau and Letourneau denied determination had been immoderate 'touching.' They initially provided mendacious names and Letourneau told constabulary that Fualaau was 18.

Letourneau past said she had been babysitting the lad astatine her location and took him distant successful her van aft she and her hubby had a fight.

They were taken to the constabulary presumption but nary further enactment was taken.

However, the existent quality of their narration was uncovered successful February 1997, erstwhile Steve Letourneau recovered emotion letters that the brace had penned to 1 another. He confronted Fualaau, demanding helium extremity the narration different he'd pass his parents.

Letourneau was initially sentenced to 3 months successful jailhouse arsenic portion of a plea statement successful November 1997, successful which she agreed to nary longer person immoderate interaction with Fualaau.

She was large with her erstwhile student's kid astatine the clip of her conviction.

Letourneau was past paroled successful 1998.

However, soon aft her merchandise from jail, she was erstwhile again recovered having enactment successful a car with Fualaau connected February 3.

A justice past revoked Letourneau's anterior plea agreement. She was ordered to service 7 years successful situation connected second-degree kid rape charges for violating the no-contact order.

She gave commencement to Fualaau's 2nd kid portion successful prison.

The young begetter had inactive not yet turned 15.

Upon her merchandise from prison, Fualaau, who was by past an adult, petitioned successful tribunal for a justice to region the no-contact order.

The restraining bid against Letourneau was dropped, but the shamed teacher remained a registered enactment offender successful Washington authorities until her death.

Letourneau and Fualaau past erstwhile again shocked the satellite erstwhile they tied the knot successful 2005.

They remained joined for 12 years, until Fualaau filed for divorcement successful 2017.

Despite respective attempts to reconcile, the mates finalized their divided successful February 2019 and began surviving apart, according to King County tribunal records.

He cared for her portion she battled cancer. 

Leading up to her death, she wrote tons of letters as she was trying to atone for her 'deep remorse.' 

Letourneau began reflecting connected the inappropriate narration with  Fualaau aft being diagnosed with terminal crab successful 2020, a person claimed.

‘At the extremity of your life, you commencement reassessing a batch of things,’ the person told People. ‘And she was trying to marque her peace, not lone with everyone else, but with herself.’

The person told People that she received a missive from the disgraced teacher astir a period and a fractional earlier she died successful July 2020.

Letourneau wrote dozens of letters portion terminally sick to atone for her actions, the outlet said.