Mary Katherine Schmitz (formerly Letourneau; 1962) is an
American former schoolteacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of
felony second-degree rape of a child, Vili Fualaau, who was 12 or 13 at the
time and had been her sixth-grade student.
While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau's
child. With the state seeking a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence, she
reached a plea agreement calling for six months in jail, with three months
suspended, and no contact with Fualaau for life among other terms. The case
received national attention.
Shortly after spending three months in jail, the police
caught Letourneau in a car with Fualaau. A judge revoked her plea agreement and
re-instated the prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of
seven-and-a-half years. Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth
to Fualaau's second child, another daughter. She was imprisoned from 1998 to
2004. Letourneau and Fualaau began a 14-year marriage in May 2005.
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