Jailed Ex-Teacher Pregnant Letourneau Hasn’t Named Father, But Attorney Thinks It’s Same Boy

A former teacher imprisoned for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy who fathered her daughter is pregnant again, her lawyer confirmed Saturday.

Mary Kay Letourneau, 36, is about six weeks pregnant, David Gehrke told reporters at his suburban Seattle home. She did not tell him who the father is.

“I didn’t ask her and she didn’t volunteer to tell me,” Gehrke said.

But Gehrke said 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.

Gehrke said Letourneau, who has five children, told him the father is aware of the pregnancy.

Letourneau is serving 7-1/2 years in prison for her sexual relationship with the boy. Their daughter was born last year.

Letourneau received a suspended sentence in January after pleading guilty to second-degree rape. But she was imprisoned in February after she and the boy were found together in a car.

The boy told a counselor that he and Letourneau had sex before she went to jail.

Letourneau has had several miscarriages and her lawyer said she did not want her pregnancy to be disclosed until she had passed the first trimester.

“She’s upset that this news came out so early in the pregnancy,” Gehrke said.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported her pregnancy Saturday, citing sources who said Letourneau underwent a sonogram Wednesday at the Women’s Correctional Center that showed a fetal heartbeat.

Letourneau is happy that a life has been created but is worried about her future and her pregnancy, Gehrke said.

“She’s concerned about how this will lay on her future, her children, her image,” he said. “It’s another blow to everyone.”

Telephone calls to the boy’s lawyer were not returned. Prison officials also did not return calls for comment.

Letourneau’s husband, Steve, reached by telephone at his Anchorage, Alaska, home, said there’s little doubt that his wife was impregnated by the same teenager.

Steve Letourneau moved to Alaska last year with his four children - the oldest of whom is a boy one year younger than the rape victim - and has filed for divorce.

“It’s not surprising,” he said. “It kind of figures the way things are going, and as far as I’m concerned, this does not set me back. Back in November, it could have gone either way; she could have worked her way back into the children’s life or the way she’s chosen to go now.”

It was during Letourneau’s 32 days out of jail that she told friends she had stopped taking medication for her bipolar disorder - a condition marked by erratic mood swings.

Letourneau’s telephoned comments from jail to Oprah Winfrey were nationally televised last month in which she told the talk-show host that she broke her promise never to see the rape victim again because “this young man is the love of my life.”

Relatives suspected all along that Letourneau would be found pregnant.

“She’s one sick person,” said Steve Letourneau’s mother, Sharon Hume, 55, also from Anchorage. “I don’t really care what happens to her. She’s so stupid. … God only knows what her family is thinking.”

Steve Letourneau’s girlfriend, Kelly Whalen, said Saturday: “It saddens me beyond belief. Just the actions alone. It’s bad enough they’re having to deal with the first sibling and now a second.”

Whalen said she, Steve Letourneau and the children are in counseling together. The latest news is being kept from the children, pending advice from a psychologist.

“We had just started to get along. Our emotional level was just coming to a plateau,” said Whalen, 35, an Alaska Airlines flight attendant.

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