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Grim New accusation against teacher Mary Kay Letourneau who then married student Vili Fualaau, 12

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Caitlin Steed was in the same Shorewood Elementary School class as Vili Fualaau when Mary Kay Letourneau (pictured in 1997) was caught having sex with him in a minivan in Washington.

Rapist educator Mary Kay Letourneau has been accused by a former student of traumatizing an entire sixth-grade class after sexually assaulting and marrying her 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau.

Caitlin Steed was in the same Shorewood Elementary School class as Fualaau when Letourneau was caught having sex with him in a minivan in Washington.

Now Steed, 41, said her entire classes are still dealing with the trauma of that grim discovery.

“She was a mother figure to us because she was so nurturing,” she told the New York Post. “And then we really had to process all of this as we just learn what sex is about.

“I think a lot of us have ended up in counseling. She literally screwed up an entire class of sixth-graders…we were trying to understand, and we missed our teacher. ‘

Letourneau, who died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 58, made headlines around the world in 1997 when the then-34-year-old teacher and mother-of-four was found to have had an abusive sexual relationship with Fualaau.

Letourneau met Fualaau when he joined her second-grade class in 1992, but they did not begin their sexual relationship until four years later when he was 12.

In 1996, after the school year ended, the couple enrolled in summer classes at the same community college and began spending more time together.

Caitlin Steed was in the same Shorewood Elementary School class as Vili Fualaau when Mary Kay Letourneau (pictured in 1997) was caught having sex with him in a minivan in Washington.

Now Steed, 41, said her entire classes are still dealing with the trauma of that grim discovery. “I think a lot of us have ended up in counseling. She literally ruined an entire class of sixth-graders... we tried to understand, and we missed our teacher' (pictured: Fualaau and Letourneau)

Now Steed, 41, said her entire classes are still dealing with the trauma of that grim discovery. “I think a lot of us have ended up in counseling. She literally ruined an entire class of sixth-graders… we tried to understand, and we missed our teacher’ (pictured: Fualaau and Letourneau)

A day after class, the couple went out to dinner. In a 2018 interview, Fualaau recalled asking to kiss Letourneau in her car after the meal, which she accepted.

Letourneau then had sex with Fualaau for the first time later that summer, when her then-husband, Steve Letourneau, was out of town.

On June 19, 1996, police found the couple in a minivan parked in the Des Moines Marina around 1:30 am. Letourneau was seen jumping into the front seat as officers approached the vehicle, while Fualaau pretended to be asleep in the back.

Fualaau and Letourneau denied there had been any “touching.” They initially gave false names and Letourneau told police Fualaau was 18.

Letourneau then said she dropped the boy off at her house and took him in her van after she and her husband had an argument.

They were taken to the police station but no further action was taken.

However, the true nature of their relationship was discovered in February 1997, when Steve Letourneau found love letters the couple had written to each other. He confronted Fualaau and demanded that he end the relationship or he would inform his parents.

Letourneau was initially sentenced to three months in prison as part of a plea deal in November 1997 in which she agreed to have no further contact with Fualaau.

Letourneau, who died in 2020 of cancer, mother with her student with her student

Letourneau, who died in 2020 of cancer, mother with her student with her student

Letourneau made headlines around the world in 1997 when the then-34-year-old teacher and mother of four had an abusive sexual relationship with Fualaau (pictured with his family)

Letourneau made headlines around the world in 1997 when the then-34-year-old teacher and mother of four had an abusive sexual relationship with Fualaau (pictured with his family)

She was pregnant with her former student’s child at the time of her conviction.

Letourneau was subsequently released in 1998.

However, shortly after her release from prison, she was again found having sex in a car with Fualaau on February 3.

A judge subsequently revoked Letourneau’s previous plea deal. She was ordered to serve seven years in prison on second-degree rape charges for violating the no-contact order.

She is giving birth to Fualaau’s second child in prison.

The young father had not yet turned 15.

Upon her release from prison, Fualaau, who was then an adult, requested in court for a judge to remove the no-contact order.

The restraining order against Letourneau was revoked, but the shamed teacher remained a registered sex offender in Washington state until her death.

Letourneau and Fualaau then shocked the world again when they tied the knot in 2005.

They remained married for 12 years until Fualaau filed for divorce in 2017.

Despite several attempts to reconcile, the couple ended their split in February 2019 and began living apart, according to King County Court records.

He cared for her while she battled cancer.

In the run-up to her death, she wrote tons of letters as she tried to atone for her “deep regrets.”

Letourneau began reflecting on the inappropriate relationship with Fualaau after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2020, a friend claimed.

“At the end of your life you start to reassess a lot of things,” the friend told People. “And she tried to make her peace, not just with everyone, but with herself.”

The friend told People she received a letter from the disgraced teacher about a month and a half before she died in July 2020.

Letourneau wrote dozens of letters while terminally ill to palliate her actions, the outlet said.

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