Mom Angry At Boy, Not Letourneau She Feels Betrayed By Son For Latest Incident With Child Rapist
The mother of the 14-year-old boy at the center of the Mary Kay LeTourneau child-rape case says she is angry at her son, not his former teacher, for their latest transgression.
When she learned her son had been found in a car with LeTourneau at 3 a.m. Tuesday, “what went through my mind … (was) I’m going to strangle him,” the mother said in an interview with TV’s “American Journal” which is scheduled to air today in most markets.
Their meeting - which violated a no-contact order imposed on LeTourneau - resulted Friday in the former teacher being ordered to serve the 7-1/2-year sentence imposed last fall but suspended because she was a first-time offender.
“I was more angry at him than her. I don’t feel like she betrayed me. Who I feel betrayed me is my son,” the mother said in the interview. Her name was withheld to protect her son as a rape victim.
The boy’s mother is caring for the 8-month-old baby girl that the relationship between her son and LeTourneau produced last spring.
The two met when the boy was a second-grader and began having sex after LeTourneau - then the married mother of four - taught him again as a sixth-grader. He was 13 when their daughter was born.
LeTourneau pleaded guilty in August to two counts of second-degree child rape. As a first-time offender, she was sentenced last fall to six months in jail with credit for time served and ordered to undergo three years of sex-offender therapy.
She also was ordered to stay away from the boy and promised to do so, although she made it clear she wanted to see their daughter.
The boy’s mother said she feels the sentence imposed on LeTourneau is a “harsh penalty.”
“If it were up to me, I’d say you’re going to do six months of jail time,” she said.
“I think he truly loves her and I think she truly loves him, too. … No matter how sick it sounds, I think they truly love each other.
“If the day she’s let out of jail … my son is still in love with her and they hold true to each other, then yes, I will welcome her into the family,” the mother said.