Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mary Kay LeTourneau, the Seattle
teacher jailed for having sex with a
13-year-old boy, fears her young beau
will "move on" to a new girlfriend.
A therapist is "doing her darndest to
help him cope with the hard reality that I
am gone," the 35-year-old married
mother of five complains.
She is panicked he will cope too well.
In an interview in the upcoming issue of
Mirabella, LeTourneau compares their
love affair to that of Jack and Rose, the
ill-fated lovers in the movie "Titanic."
Like Rose, she said, she grew up a
child of privilege, while the boy, like
Jack, is from a working-class family.
And describing a scene right out of the
hit movie, she tells the magazine how
the boy, who has twice impregnated
her, once sketched her while she posed
nude.
"He knows me," she said. "He has a
view on the world and life that enables
both of us to grow independently and
together, in love. He was special for me
because he completes me, and I'm sure
for him, the same is true - I complete
him.
"That makes us one - and unique from
all the others."
When the LeTourneau case first made
national headlines in February 1997, it
prompted a wave of criticism that cast
her as a predator who took advantage
of her position as the teacher of the
boy, now 14.
LeTourneau sees her tragic obsession
with the boy as an epic romance.
After she pleaded guilty to two counts of
second-degree child rape in August
1997, she was sentenced to six months
in jail and ordered not to see the boy
again.
She was released in early January this
year, but on Feb. 3, Seattle cops caught
her in a car with the boy.
LeTourneau, who's serving an 89-month
sentence for violating her parole, claims
their relationship transcended
traditional social laws - and time -
because they had been together in a
past life.
"That's one of the ways he proposed to
me," she said. "He said, "I know we
were together before this life and we
had about 10 children.' I felt it, too - we
had to have had at least that many."
LeTourneau - who has one child by her
young lover and is carrying his second
child - said she would like to stay close
to her four older children, but her former
husband has moved them to Alaska.
He hasn't allowed her to contact them
since learning of her latest pregnancy.
Although LeTourneau was diagnosed
by her court-appointed psychotherapist
as having an "anti-social personality
disorder," she insists she is neither a
pedophile nor mentally ill.
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