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In reply to the discussion: Marriage tips from a rapist, on ABC [View all]struggle4progress
(118,212 posts)when she married Fualaau.
Her overall history might suggest she's had serious psychological problems.
She'd married in 1985 after becoming pregnant by classmate Steve Letourneau. She'd been married for eleven years, with four children, when she started having sex with Fualaau; and when arrested in 1997, she was pregnant by him. She was diagnosed then with a mental disorder, and in 1997 she accepted a plea bargain that gave her a six month sentence (three months suspended) and included her agreement not to contact Fualaau. Within two weeks of release, she violated parole, being found with Fualaau in flagrante delicto in a parked auto, after which she was sentenced to seven years. Steve Letourneau obtained a divorce, and she gave birth to Fualaau's second child.
When she was finally released in 2004, Fualaau successfully requested that the court lift the no-contact order, and they married in 2005, making some money by selling press access. By 2009 they were hosting "Hot for Teacher" events at a local nightclub.
In early 2013, she stopped while driving a vehicle with expired tags, and the officer then found her license had been suspended for failure to pay parking tickets. In lieu of charges, she agreed to attend a re-licensing program but did not attend, with the result she was arrested in early 2014 on charges of driving with a suspended license.
So, over the years, she seems to have repeatedly overlooked birth control, marriage vows, educational ethics, and statutory rape laws; she also seems to have overlooked honoring court orders, paying parking tickets, renewing vehicle tags, the need for a valid drivers license, and the importance of attending classes when offered as an alternative to prosecution