Not sure if anyone saw the movie the other night. Interesting story to say the least! Plus her attorney was interviewed by Matt Lower(sp?) this week. Vili's best friend was also interviewed and claims Vili has been waiting for her..guess we'll see what happens!
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Ex-Student Seeks Reunion With Letourneau

By REBECCA COOK
Associated Press Writer

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher convicted for having sex with a sixth-grade student, was released from prison Wednesday, and her 21-year-old victim quickly sought to get back together with her.

Vili Fualaau is challenging a court order that bars Letourneau from contacting him as part of her child rape sentence. He says he is an adult and can pick his own friends, especially the mother of his two children.

"He is now an adult and, as an adult, is requesting that the court allow him to associate with other adults of his own choosing, specifically Mary K. Letourneau," his court motion says.

Letourneau, 42, slipped out of prison quietly after midnight and was met by a crowd that included dozens of media outlets and a group of rowdy teenage boys waving signs that said "I'm 18, Baby!" and "Take Me Home."

Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher in suburban Des Moines and an unhappily married mother of four in 1996, when she began having sex with the sixth-grader.

At a 2002 civil trial, Fualaau testified, "We had sex in the gym, we had sex in the girl's bathroom and we had sex in her classroom."

When Letourneau was arrested in 1997, she was already pregnant with Fualaau's daughter. Though she professed her love for the boy, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail for second-degree child rape, and ordered her to stay away from him.

A month after Letourneau was released, she 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 daughter behind bars.

Letourneau's two daughters with Fualaau are now 6 and 7. They have been raised by Fualaau's mother, and visited Letourneau in prison about twice a month. Her four older children live in Alaska with her ex-husband, and visited a few times a year.

The sentencing order has allowed Letourneau to have contact with her children by Fualaau. Letourneau has said she would consider having more children with him.

"If we are so blessed to continue a relationship and if that's what he wants, for him I would," Letourneau told Seattle's KOMO-TV. But she kept mum on her plans for a reunion, saying only, "I'm not allowing myself to think about being with him. We had a beautiful relationship, and I value it for what it was."

While at the state prison for women near Gig Harbor, Letourneau sang in a choir and recorded books for the blind — and served time in solitary for attempting to contact Fualaau.

"Nothing could have kept the two of them apart," said Seattle attorney Anne Bremner, who struck up a friendship with Letourneau in 2002 and spoke to her recently by phone. "She's always said this love is eternal and endless, and I think she stands by that."

The King County prosecutor's office is reviewing Fualaau's motion to see Letourneau again, spokesman Dan Donohoe said, and had not yet decided whether to agree to it or request a hearing before a judge.

Under terms of her release, Letourneau was required to register as a sex offender, and did so at the King County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon.

That Fualaau and Letourneau would want to get together was no surprise to some who know her well.

"She has a personal need to get back together with him to prove to the world this is a love story and not a crime story," said Gregg Olsen, who wrote a book about Letourneau's case. "Part of Mary Letourneau will never let go of this love."

Fualaau told People magazine recently that he would like to reunite with Letourneau, but wants to take things slowly. A high school dropout, he is unemployed and told the magazine he is working on his GED.

"I don't know what my feelings are right now," Fualaau told KING-TV in Seattle on Tuesday, acknowledging he was "kind of nervous."

"But I know that I do love her," he said.

Letourneau may also want to tell her own story. A state appeals court ruled in 2000 that Letourneau may sell and profit from her story.

August 5, 2004 - 3:11 a.m. PDT

Vili Fualaau watches as his lawyer speaks during opening arguments of his $1 million lawsuit against the Des Moines (Wash.) Police Department and the Highline School District in this March 21, 2002 file photo in Kent, Wash. The suit, which Fualaau lost, accused the school district and the police of failing to protect Fualaau from sexual explotation stemming from his relationship with Mary Kay Letourneau, 42, his former sixth-grade teacher, who will be freed from prison Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004 after serving a seven-year term for child rape. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

Yes Smilez i seen the story and thought it was quite interesting myself. I know that the age difference is kinda alot but i think if they are in love they should be allowed to be together. Just my thoughts on the issue.

I was watching The O'Reilly Factor last night and they had a discussion about the situation.
They were talking about whether they should be allowed to see each other or not via decision of the judge. I may not agree with what happened however I feel that she was sentenced to due her time and she did it. That was her punishment. She served, it is over. He is 21 now and they should be able to do what they wish. However I do feel that part of her probation should be therapy.... Just my couple of cents....

Drummer am all with ya there...if they love each other let them be..they are both adults....

hopefully the kid got alot of therapy. he probably isn't even close to normal. i saw this happen(without childeren) when i was in scottsdale az, and the kid is close to 30 now and still screwed up. a 21 year old should be able to make his own decisions---the damage is already done---it's just a sad sad story----i don't view it as a love story at all.

hard to say samson...I definitely don't condone what happened in the least. But for some reason, i don't feel MaryKay is a threat to society nor was she back then. Having a son myself, am sure i would be more than livid if my sons teacher would have been involved with him in such a way at age 13, of course! Sounds to me Vilis strong family support thru these years, raising their children and all was the only thing that has kept things somewhat 'normal'. I mean he sure has had plenty of time to move on but sounds like he's there for her. Again, will sure be interesting to see what happens now she's out.

I agree w/ Drummer she served her time, and he is now an adult. How can the law say he cannot see her, and they do have a child or is it 2?

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they have 2 children. I wondered that as well peanut - if Vili is 21, he is now an adult.

No one can forbid an adult to be in love with an older woman, can they????
let them and i do not believe when he was younger that he did not like it or became hurt for the rest of his life. this is BS
of course a teacher is not allowed to have sex with her students but that is a rule of the school. But to put her in prison????? they would laugh in Europe about this it would be different when he was a child but a teenager??????

that's interesting Barbie..so Europe is cool with a 35 year old man having sex with a 13 year old girl?? Just curious, not familiar with the laws ovah there. ?