He was a child, she was his teacher. A look at the life of Mary Kay Letourneau, who died of cancer this week at 58
Throughout the public’s decades-long fascination with the couple, a few dissenting voices pointed out just how deranged this narrative was. “We are supposed to somehow believe they were just two fools in love,” writer Sasha Brown-Wortham noted in 2015, following a. “Despite the fact that he was a child and she was an adult.” Occasionally, someone would bring up the psychological impact of Fualaau experiencing such abuse as such a young age.
Since the 1990s, when Letourneau and Fualaau became tabloid fixtures, we have consistently seen coverage of female sexual predators undermine the severity of their crimes, focusing instead on the question of why an attractive older woman would exhibit sexual interest in an underage boy . The, accused of having intercourse and oral sex with a 13-year-old boy more than a dozen times, as a “stunning” “blond bombshell,” taking care to note her past as a bikini model for Harley-Davidson.
, was breathlessly lauded in the press for her icy blond beauty, to the degree that her attorney used it as an excuse for her to avoid jail time: “to place an attractive young woman in that kind of hellhole, is like putting a piece of raw meat in with the lions,” he said in 2004. Vili Fualaau carries his bride-to-be, Mary Kay Letourneau, over the threshold of their new rental home in Normandy Park, Washington, in April 2005, a month before their wedding.
As our understanding of sexual abuse has gradually evolved, so too has our perception of female sexual predators like Letourneau. While tabloids and bro blogs still breathlessly document underage sexual abuse cases, with Barstool Sports issuing a nauseating annual “sex scandal teacher starting lineup,” it is relatively rare to see such offenders achieve the notoriety of a Letourneau or a Lafave.
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