Fualaau moves for contact with Letourneau
SEATTLE – Vili Fualaau says he’s an adult now and can pick his own friends, including Mary Kay Letourneau, his elementary school teacher, rapist and the mother of his two children, who was released from prison Wednesday.
Just hours after Letourneau completed her 7 1/2 -year prison term for raping Fualaau when he was 12, the now 21-year-old Fualaau sought to reunite with her.
N. Scott Stewart, a lawyer for Fualaau, filed a motion to vacate a no-contact order between Fualaau and Letourneau, 42, that was part of Letourneau’s sentencing.
The King County prosecutor’s office is reviewing the motion, spokesman Dan Donohoe said, and had not yet decided whether to agree to it or request a hearing before a judge.
Fualaau “does not fear Mary K. Letourneau,” the motion argued, noting there was “no allegation of forcible compulsion” in the case and that the sole basis for criminal charges was Fualaau’s age.
“He is now an adult and, as an adult, is requesting that the court allow him to associate with other adults of his own choosing, specifically Mary K. Letourneau,” it said.
The sentencing order has allowed Letourneau to have contact with her children by Fualaau. Letourneau has said she would consider having more children with him.
Letourneau registered Wednesday afternoon at the King County Courthouse as a level-two sex offender, defined as one likely to reoffend. Under terms of her release, she was required to register within 24 hours.
She’s living in unincorporated King County south of Seattle, he said.
Authorities will notify her neighbors that a sex offender is living in the area.
So far, Letourneau has kept a low profile. She slipped out of prison quietly early Wednesday and slipped in and out of the courthouse unobtrusively later in the day.
Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher in suburban Des Moines and an unhappily married mother of four in 1996, when she began having sex with the preteen.
When Letourneau was arrested in 1997, she was already pregnant with Fualaau’s daughter. Though she professed her love for the boy, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail for second-degree child rape, and ordered her to stay away from him.
A month after Letourneau was released, she was caught having sex with Fualaau in her car. She was sent to prison for 7 1/2 years, and gave birth to Fualaau’s second daughter behind bars.
Letourneau’s two daughters with Fualaau are now 6 and 7. They have been raised by Fualaau’s mother, and visited Letourneau in prison about twice a month. Her four older children live in Alaska with her ex-husband.