Letourneau Pregnant Once Again Attorney Confirms Sonogram Results, But Jailed Teacher Hasn’t Named Father

Former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau - imprisoned for a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old former student that produced a baby girl last year - is pregnant again, her attorney confirmed Saturday.

“She’s upset that this news came out so early in the pregnancy,” David Gehrke told reporters who gathered at his home in this south Seattle suburb.

Letourneau, who has five children, has had three or four miscarriages in the past, he said.

Gehrke said he spoke to his client earlier Saturday and she confirmed a newspaper report that she is pregnant. Letourneau began serving a 7-1/2-year sentence at the Women’s Correctional Center in February, ordered to prison when she violated a judge’s order to stay away from the former student, now 14.

She did not tell Gehrke who fathered the baby, he said. But she said the father had been told of the pregnancy.

Earlier Saturday, Gehrke said that if his client was pregnant again, the father likely was the 14-year-old boy she considers the love of her life. And if that is the case, he said, she could face new criminal charges.

Her relationship with the boy put Letourneau behind bars for second-degree rape, destroying her teaching career and her marriage.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported her latest pregnancy Saturday, quoting an unnamed source “familiar with the former schoolteacher’s condition.”

Letourneau underwent a sonogram Wednesday at the Women’s Correctional Center in Purdy that showed a fetal heartbeat, the source said.

“She is absolutely giddy,” the source said.

The sonogram was administered after three urine tests failed to detect the pregnancy. The newspaper’s source said Letourneau substituted water for urine in the first test, and that two others were inconclusive.

“She is very excited about the new baby,” the source said.

Now six weeks pregnant, she was moved from a cell to the prison infirmary after the sonogram, the source said.

Letourneau pleaded guilty to second-degree child rape last fall for sexual contact with the boy when he was 13, beginning in June 1996 after he was in her sixth-grade class. Her sentence originally was suspended and she was released in January, ordered to undergo sex-offender treatment and to have no contact with the boy.

A month later, police found her and the boy together and she was ordered to prison. Authorities were alerted after the boy told his Child Protective Services counselor they had had sex since her release.

Gehrke said he believes Letourneau’s bipolar disorder - a form of depression - led her to continue sexual contact with the boy despite the obvious consequences.

“You don’t look ahead at the consequences with a rational mind,” he told Northwest Cable News earlier Saturday. “Anyone with a rational mind would look ahead and say, ‘I should not be pregnant.’ Anyone with a rational mind would make sure she didn’t get pregnant.”

Letourneau and the boy met when he was a second-grade pupil of hers in south suburban Burien. The sexual relationship began the summer after his sixth-grade year.

“There was a respect, an insight, a spirit, an understanding between us that grew over time,” Letourneau told the Seattle Times in a jail interview last summer.

The boy has objected to being called a victim. He says they planned the first pregnancy to affirm their bond, and exchanged rings. His mother has custody of their 9-month-old daughter.

Letourneau referred to the boy on the Oprah Winfrey show as “the love of her life” and said she wants to marry him.

Letourneau’s husband, Steve Letourneau, has filed for divorce and moved to Alaska with their four children.

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