Letourneau’s no-contact order lifted

SEATTLE – There’s nothing keeping them apart now.

King County Superior Court Judge Linda Lau on Friday agreed to lift a no-contact order between Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil, Vili Fualaau, with whom she had two children.

Lau sentenced Letourneau to prison in 1997 for raping Fualaau.

Fualaau filed the motion to lift the order just hours after Letourneau’s release Wednesday. His attorney argued the order was meant to protect a minor. Fualaau is now 21.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office did not object to Fualaau’s motion, said spokesman Dan Donohoe.

Letourneau, 42, was released after completing a 7 1/2-year term for child rape. She’s staying with friends at a home in the Boulevard Park neighborhood south of Seattle.

Fualaau was in New York on Thursday to appear on the “Today” show. He told the show he’s looking forward to seeing Letourneau and deciding if they can have a life together.

Letourneau has had continued contact with their daughters, now 6 and 7. They are being raised by Fualaau’s mother.

As required, she has registered at the King County Courthouse as a level-two sex offender, defined as one likely to reoffend.

Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher at a Burien school when she began having sex with Fualaau in 1996, when he was 12.

When she was arrested in 1997, she was already pregnant with their first child. A judge sentenced Letourneau to six months in jail for second-degree child rape and ordered her to stay away from the boy. A month after she was released, Letourneau 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 child behind bars.