Just the idea, this would count as a crime. Disgraced former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau has died of cancer aged 58 23 years after she was arrested for raping 12 year-old student Vili Fualaau, right (Pictures: AP) One of his relatives alerted the school and Letourneau is arrested on statutory rape charges. Vili Fualaau, the sixth-grade student that Mary Kay Letourneau raped in the 1990s and later married, 'lost a piece of himself' when she died earlier this week, a friend has said. Letourneau, 58, passed away at home in Des Monies, Washington, on Monday surrounded by family members following a quiet nine-month battle with stage four colon cancer. Letourneau then had sex with Fualaau for the first time later that summer, when her husband, Steve Letourneau, was out of town. She was pregnant with her former student's child at the time of her conviction. 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Claire M Letourneau, age 43, Belmont, NH 03220 View Full Report. However, shortly after her release from jail, she was once again found having sex in a car with Fualaau on February 3. In 1996, 34-year-old Mary Kay was living with her husband, Steve Letourneau. 'But they always, always deeply cared for each other. He's sad for the girls, but he's also sad for himself.’. Shock. I call it media carnage. The former school teacher made headlines in 1997 when she was convicted of raping her sixth grade pupil, who she later married. 1992: Letourneau first meets Fualaau when he joined her second grade class, aged 8, 1996:  Their sexual relationship began when he was 12 and she was 34. "Mary fought tirelessly against this terrible disease," said the family of her cancer diagnosis. The teen was eventually forced to drop out of high school and slipped into depression and alcoholism, he said. Mary Kay Letourneau served seven years in prison for second-degree rape of a child. Mary Kay Letourneau, the US middle school teacher at the centre of a national underage scandal in the 1990s, has died. Letourneau is survived by her children, Steven Jr., Claire, Nicholas, and Jacqueline, whom she had with first husband, Steve Letourneau, in addition to the two daughters she had with Fualaau. Army on standby as second day of Storm Christoph chaos dawns: Heavy rain puts thousands of homes on flood... Ex-Power Rangers star Andrew Gray is branded 'abusive' and 'psycho' after he verbally assaulted his... THERESA MAY: Britain threatened to break the law. SEATTLE — Mary Kay Letourneau, who married her former sixth-grade student after she was convicted for raping him, has died. Mary Katherine Letourneau (née Schmitz; January 30, 1962 – July 6, 2020) was an American teacher who pled 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 at a Burien, Washington elementary school.