Dead at 58.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53335906


20 years ago I was in Australia and mentioned to a shopkeeper that I was from Seattle. He said, "oh, where Mary Kay Letourneau is from". Not Bill Gates, not Kenny G, not Ken Griffey Junior, not Bill Boeing, not anyone Seattle would like to be famous for. Mary Kay Letourneau. *sigh*


I did not know the bit about her father. Apple... tree... not fall far from.

One of the strangest tales of the last decades. I guess it was a manifestation of how really, really good sex can somehow trick the participants - one or both - into mistaking their attachment as true love.

When one is an adolescent, of course, the fixation can be taken as part of the "grooming".

I feel worst about the children involved - hers from her first marriage and then her child-husband and THEIR children. I can't imagine how they can ever unscramble their brains.

I also pity him because he was not only raped into sex, but raped into premature fatherhood.
I can certainly understand the rage of his parents.

I'm glad to see that every headline marking her death, begins with the bald designation of her as a "child-rapist".

If it had been a male teacher and a female student, how long would it have been news?