And on top of that, they had to deal with the public scrutiny of a lot of people saying, ‘You are not a victim because you are a boy.’ I think she layered on the impact with these boys.” I think she took advantage of that and she made their problems even worse. I wasn’t functioning in a healthy adult manner at all.”ĭistrict Attorney Cristina Ortega told people that, “I think she took advantage of each of the boys and what issues they may have had, whether it was their family or drugs or that sort of thing. “I had extreme self-esteem issues, and they said things that made me feel good about myself,” she said. She also confessed, according to People, to having sexual contact with a 17-year-old after she was arrested and while out on bail. Her victims were 16 and 17 at the time.Īltice had admitted to having sex with a the 16-year-old student in a church parking lot and during the school lunch hour. In 2013, one of the victims came forward to police according to People. She was English teacher a wife and a mother of two.Īltice, who is now 37, had pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible sex abuse in exchange for 11 charges including three first-degree felony rape charges getting dropped. I regret the decisions I made that brought us here.” I’m very aware of it and I am very remorseful.
This was not my ex-husband’s fault, or the school’s fault, or my students’ fault. Utah teacher Brianne Altice pleaded guilty in 2015 to sexual abuse for having sex with three of her students.Īccording to People, Altice said, “This was no one else’s fault but my own. Letourneau now works as a legal assistant and Fualaau works as a DJ and employee at a home garden center. They celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2015 and are raising their two daughters together. The judge granted the request and the pair married in 2005. When she got out of jail, Fualaau, who was 21 at the time, filed a motion in court to reverse no-contact order against Letourneau. Both daughters were in the custody of Fualaau’s mother while Letourneau served six years in prison. Letourneau became pregnant with their second daughter to whom she gave birth to in prison. Authorities speculated that the pair was planning to flee the country. According to Biography, police found $6,200 in cash, baby clothing, and Letourneau’s passport inside the car. The judge approved the plea bargain on condition that Letourneau had no contact with Fualaau.īy 1998, she was out of jail, and soon after, police once again caught Letourneau and Fualaau together in a car. She gave birth to their first daughter not long before Letourneau pleaded guilty to child rape in exchange for a three-month jail sentence and probation. Not long after, she found out she was pregnant with Fualaau’s child. She was soon arrested for second-degree child rape. Letourneau lied to police and said that the boy was 18. Police found Letourneau and Fualaau in a minivan parked at the Des Moines Marina, according to Biography. In a 2015 interview with Barbara Walters, Letourneau said, "The incident was a late night that didn't stop with a kiss. It was 1996, and Letourneau was Fualaau’s sixth grade teacher. Mary Kay Letourneau was 34 and married when she began her relationship with 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau. Some people thought she did this because of me they thought I was gay or we didn’t have an intimate sexual relationship,” he said.
“I heard all the jokes on the cable talk shows and how guys say they wish they had a teacher like her. He said he endured a lot because of the sex scandal. Her ex-husband Owen Lafave told Ocala that in 2006 that he often felt like he had a sign around his neck that said, “I’m Owen Lafave, my wife slept with a child.” Debra Lafave, who is now 36, was able to end her probation early in 2014. She later sued Florida to have her parole ended and won. She faced up to 30 years in prison but her attorney said "to place Debbie into a Florida state women's penitentiary, to place an attractive young woman in that kind of hellhole, is like putting a piece of raw meat in with the lions."Īccording to Aol, because her victim didn’t want to stand trial, Lafave pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and got off with house arrest and probation. She was married at the time, and she and her husband divorced amid the scandal. According to the New York Daily News, Lafave pled guilty in 2005 to at least four sexual encounters with one of her middle school students a year before. Debra Lafave was a Florida teacher who became notorious after having an affair with a 14-year-old student.