Mad About The Boy

Lawyers seek treatment for a Seattle teacher jailed after she's caught again with her student lover

The hours after midnight are shared largely by lovers and criminals. Seattle police searching for a stolen car were not sure which they had discovered last Tuesday at 2:24 a.m. when they noticed a gray Volkswagen Fox along a residential street, its parking lights aglow and its windows steamed. But when a well-known and attractive blond stepped from the car, they knew they had both.

She was Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, a former schoolteacher who last August pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape for having a sexual relationship (and a baby) with a former student, a 13-year-old boy....

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