Mary Kay Letourneau: All American Girl (2000) - full transcript
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
(intense music)
- My name is Cha Cha, I molested
my five year old daughter.
- Kenya Rogers, I hurt my kids.
- What did you do to them?
Say it.
- I burned them with cigarettes
and I penetrated
them with objects.
- [Narrator] Around,
around, around we go.
The past few days, that's all
anybody wants to talk about
is Mary Kay Letourneau.
The phone lines are
blazing off the hook,
ladies and gentleman
let's go to line one.
Jessica, first up in the Q.
Jessica, your opinion
on this bizarre story
of obsessive love.
- [Jessica] This obsession
of hers cost her her job,
her marriage, her children.
- [Narrator] All right, let's
go to Joel and his car phone.
Joel, if you've been
following this story
of this sixth grade
teacher doing the nasty.
- [Mom] A girl is never fully
put together without lipstick
and polish on her toes.
- [Joel] That's every little
guys dream in this world.
What are you kidding me?
Any, any guy, any guy out
there would love that.
- [Narrator] What
about your son?
What about if that
were your son?
- [Woman] She has a
Jones with this one kid
and they love her up.
You know what?
Eventually she's gonna get
out and when she gets out
she needs serious
psychiatric counseling.
- [Narrator] All right, let's
go with Steve on line three.
He so hard to trust.
Steve, you're calling
from a paid telephone?
- [Steve] Yeah.
And this teacher, she's
already got three or four kids.
She knows what it's all about.
- [Narrator] I'd love to
have the bird and the bees
talk to me and have the
experience of an older woman.
- [Woman] As a teacher, I think
it's absolutely outrageous.
I cannot believe that
she has had an affair
and their two children
with this student.
I am appalled, I am
absolutely appalled Chris.
- [Jane] Tell it
to me like a story.
- No one understands.
- [Jane] Make me understand.
- October 10, 1995.
- [Jane] What about it?
- I died on that day.
♪ Oh happy day
♪ Oh happy day
- Hello?
Oh, hey grandma.
How you doing?
Mom, the phone's for you.
Mom, it's Grandma Schmitz.
- Hello?
- [Grandma] I'm afraid
that it's bad news.
♪ Oh happy day
(razor buzzing)
- What?
- My father has prostate cancer.
- Oh, people live a
long time with that.
- They gave him three
months to two years.
Steve?
- What do you want
me to do about it?
- [Mary] I hear
the sound of keys.
Are they coming?
I hate the sound of keys.
- How did you feel
when he said that?
- He was just being
his usual absent self.
But something in me just let go
and I knew there was no hope.
- She's an unrepentant
pedophile, Charles.
We're going for the
maximum sentence.
- Mary was my
neighbor, I know her.
She's a good mom, she
was a great teacher.
Parents used to fight to get
their kids into her class.
- Then she had sex for eight
months with a 13 year old boy
resulting in a baby.
- Susan, she needs help.
- Mary Letourneau doesn't think
she's done anything wrong.
- Well, not in her
present condition.
But I was thinking,
if we could get her
onto this medication.
- She refuses to participate
in any sex offender programs.
- I think she would,
if we could just get her
onto this medication.
- [Susan] With all due
respect Dr. Newhall,
until she admits she's
committed a crime I'm immovable.
- Look, I think Mary is bipolar.
I think she's got manic
depressive tendencies.
If we could get her onto
this medication, Depakote,
it would even out
the highs and lows.
It would stabilize her
and bring her into her
more reasonable self.
- Right, jail
won't medicate her.
I mean, let's get this
woman the help she needs.
It's what we all want, for
her to admit wrong doing
and to get better, right?
Susan, you're not trying
to crucify her are you?
(subtle piano music)
- Thank you.
(subtle piano music)
(subtle piano music)
(baby crying)
- [Cha Cha] Letourneau
come on what did you do?
Girls or boys?
- [Kenya] She raped
a sixth grader.
- It was not rape.
- What would you call it?
What did you do to your victim?
- He's not my victim.
- He is your victim.
- Did you tell your kids yet
that their mommy's
a child molester?
And that she may do them.
Oh, I'm sorry
didn't they mention
that you had to tell them that?
- [Cha Cha] Just a little boy
with that smooth baby skin.
Welcome to the
program Mary Poppins.
- I am not going back there.
They're telling me that I
have to tell my own children
that I am a child molester
and that I might be
a danger to them.
I am not a child molester.
- [Jane] Legally, you are.
Regardless of how he looks,
regardless of how he sounds,
Vili is 13 and the law doesn't
care that it was consensual.
- Okay, so if you find
something mentally wrong with me
does that excuse
me from that group?
- I'm sorry, no.
You plead guilty and even
if you get probation,
you still gotta do that
group for three years.
- I should never
have plead guilty.
Those women hurt
little children, their
own little girls.
- I know.
- I'm not like them!
- I know.
- They're telling me that I
will never be a mother again.
- Okay, okay, okay,
take a breath.
You hear that your
father has cancer.
- I don't feel like
talking anymore.
- Okay.
- I was losing my dad,
I had a miscarriage,
my marriage was a disaster.
It was a very difficult time.
(bell ringing)
- [Jan] Hey Mary, morning.
- Morning.
- [Mary] Choose a
painting that you like
and try to imitate it
as best that you can.
Try to see what the
artist was imagining
when he or she was
painting the original.
Vili, will you please
stop bothering her?
- Why do you dress like
that Mrs. Letourneau?
- Excuse me?
- You're so beautiful,
you should try to
dress a little sharper.
- All right, Vili just
concentrate on your work.
- I'm done.
- Well this is very good.
Um, so does anyone know who
the original artist was?
- Joe Joe Keith.
- That's right Christine.
- Kinda got a double
meaning don't it?
- Vili, you're going to Mr.
Jordan's office right now.
Come on, let's go.
Uh class please continue
with your paintings
and I will be right back.
- I don't know where
you buy your clothes.
- What is wrong with my clothes?
- Well they're
pink for starters.
Hey, I'm sorry I didn't mean,
- You know you can't
keep doing this Vili.
Don't you understand
that you're in trouble?
- Your clothes are not that bad.
- Just come to the
office right now.
- What's the matter?
Breathe.
- My father's dying.
- I'm sorry.
- [Mary] Goodnight, I love you.
- I love you too.
Goodnight mommy.
- Sleep well.
Hey little boy, hey sweet pea.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes Jesus loves me.
Yes Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells me so.
Night angel.
I love you.
(upbeat music)
- [Boy] Hey Buddha, what's up
with the slash on your tag?
- Some girl getting
the high heart.
- [Boy] Buddha
always gets the girl.
(police siren)
- [Police] All right
guys, party's over.
All right, what's going on?
Who's responsible for this?
- I was just
lighting a cigarette
and I threw the match down and,
- [Police] And what?
Come on.
- Don't arrest me,
my mom will kill me.
- [Police] You
gonna make the call?
- [Police] Yeah,
yeah, I'll call it in.
- Buddha, you gotta get in
earlier, it's a school night.
Wouldn't it son?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
(birds chirping)
- Look, have you
seen that before?
- [Vili] Where does the
road go Mrs. Letourneau?
- [Mary] I think it
dead ends up ahead.
- No, not this road.
Our road.
(suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music)
What are you doing up?
- [Mary] I should
be asking you that.
I never go to sleep this early.
- Yeah, me neither.
- [Mary] My father is
a brilliant, wise man
with a huge heart.
You know, he ran for President.
- Of what?
- United States, silly.
- No way.
- He was in Congress.
He and I are a lot alike.
Where's your father?
- In prison.
For putting some guy in a
coma with his bare hands.
I don't really know him,
except he's a fighter.
He and I are a lot alike too.
- [Jan] Vili, shouldn't
you be asleep right now?
Go on back to your tent.
Hey.
- He has the most haunting eyes.
- You're kidding right?
- [Mary] He sees right into me.
Like he knows all my
thoughts and feelings.
Like he knows everything
I have ever thought.
- Tell me a little
bit about your father.
He ran for President?
- 72 election.
- [Jane] That was um,
Nixon and McGovern.
- Hm.
- And George Wallace.
- [Mary] The American
Independent party.
After George Wallace was
shot, my dad took his place.
He got over a million votes.
I worked on all his campaigns.
- Well, I actually don't mind
Mr. Nixon going to Red China,
I just don't want
him coming back.
Well I uh, I didn't too badly
for a Catholic John
Burcher in front of a
sea of Jewish arguably
female faces, did I?
Thank you!
Thank you.
- Mable, Mable strong and able,
get your elbows off the table.
- [John] Well I'm
about finished.
More Birdie Wine?
Why is it called Birdie Wine?
- [Kids] Because it's cheap,
cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
- [John] Okay
boys, Red China go.
- [Boy] Nixon's trip to Peking
will stand as one of the
great betrayals of history.
- Sending soldiers to Vietnam
while trading with China
was killing them is,
- Is a profound hypocrisy.
The man's a strange creature,
prone to making
exceptions for himself.
But he knows that there's
a higher moral law.
- Communists don't
believe in God.
- Sh.
- [Petitioners] Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
(patriotic music)
Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
- Cupcake, you're
tougher than you look.
- [Mary] My father was
always the man in my life.
- Nobody ever challenged him?
Your husband, never?
- No, no, never.
Uh, not even close.
No one could ever
live up to my dad.
Until Vili.
(upbeat music)
- I'm gonna get that teacher.
- [Mary] That's for
their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be,
- Everybody wants her,
are you kidding me?
- Every girl I
asked never said no.
- That's true man,
but she's a teacher.
- [Vili] I'll put
20 bucks on it.
- All right.
- All right.
I'm gonna get her.
(upbeat music)
- [Announcer] We have an
extra special guest today,
Vili, Mr. Cock of the Watsu
lab was sitting across from me.
Child lover of the beautiful
Mary Kay Letourneau,
every boy's wet dream of
a sixth grade teacher.
Hey man.
- [Vili] Hey.
- [Announcer]
Vili, one question.
How'd she smell?
- [Vili] Uh.
- [Announcer] Did
you do it for love?
Did you get over
one of those desks?
- [Vili] Once when no
one kids were around.
- [Announcer] Beautiful.
- He just says what
people wanna hear,
he makes up things,
he's an artist.
You have to understand
that Vili is different.
In second grade, I
knew I had a prodigy.
The only problem I had
was to keep him focused.
Okay everyone, science
projects on your desk please.
(bell rings)
Okay have a great holiday!
Goodbye!
Merry Christmas, bye bye.
See you when you get back!
No science project?
Where are you Vili?
- The dark zone.
- Remember in second grade
how we used to get you
out of that dark place?
(upbeat piano music)
- You have a piano
at your house?
- Yes.
- Maybe I can come over
some time, learn more songs.
- I can teach you here.
You have to finish
your science project
or you're gonna get an F.
Finish this one thing,
it's so important.
You have so much potential,
I see it so clearly.
But you have to complete things.
- [Jane] Were you aware
of an attraction to him
at this point?
- Come on.
Do you have any lip balm?
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
They won't let me have lip
balm in here for some reason.
May I take a little for later?
No, I wasn't attracted to
him as anything other than a
very talented student.
I was proud of him,
proud to help him.
Thank you.
- So he wasn't the
man in your life yet?
- Are you patronizing me?
- No.
Absolutely not.
Let's talk about
your school years.
What kinds of schools
did you go to?
- Well, I went to about
nine schools in 12 years.
- [Mom] All right everyone,
can you sit up please?
All Catholic.
- [Mom] We're
going to say grace.
Let's put our hands together
please and bow your heads.
- [Mary] There was no continuity
in schools or friends,
it was all family, only family.
- We're going to move
you to a different school
after Easter break.
- Why?
- Pass the carrots please.
- Why mom?
- Sweetie, can you just trust
that we know what's
best for you?
- [John] Why is there an
epidemic of teenage pregnancies?
Sex education.
Ever since the implementation,
- That's why we're transferring.
They're starting sex
education at our school.
(intense music)
- [Mary] It was no big deal,
just unsupervised
kids exploring.
Eventually I said
no and it stopped.
- [Jane] After how long?
- I don't know, maybe
six or nine months.
It had no effect on me.
- [Jane] Did you
tell your parents?
- No, are you kidding?
- [Jane] Did you tell anyone?
- No.
- Mary, I have to ask you this.
Did you make this up
to help your case?
- How dare you?
(knocking)
She can't come in here.
- She can if I say she can.
- I don't have to talk to you.
- It's true, you're paying me
so you can talk or not talk.
Whatever you feel like doing.
- Yeah.
Well no one wants to talk about
what this is really about.
- Which is?
- Vili and I love each other.
We are soulmates.
He's ageless and so am I.
God brought us
together for a reason
and nothing can keep us apart.
- [Jane] Do you ever
see yourself as sort
of a rebel angel?
- I pay you so I can fire you.
- All right, okay.
(sighs)
Let me just ask you to
think about something.
Can you only enjoy
sex when it's elicit?
(whimsical music)
- I got a question for you.
How do you know if you're good?
- Vili, that's not
the right question.
The question should
be are you in love?
If you're in love
then it will be good
and right and natural.
- What do you think
about an older woman
being with a younger man?
- What do you mean?
- You feel right
and natural to me.
Why is that?
Why do I feel like I know
every little thing about you?
- You know, I have
the weirdest feeling
like you're gonna be in my
life for a very long time.
Maybe you'll marry my daughter.
- You're a runner aren't you?
- Oh, I used to be.
- Me too.
- Really?
- I'll race you to that tree.
- Oh no, no.
- Come on, come on.
- Oh God!
(whimsical music)
(shouting)
Oh my gosh!
Ow, ow.
(intense music)
(intense piano music)
(baby crying)
(baby crying)
(subtle piano music)
(baby crying)
(baby crying)
(subtle piano music)
- Hi.
Hello.
Mommy's here.
(intense piano music)
- Time's up Mr. Dunphy.
- Okay.
Mary, it's time.
(subtle piano music)
- Don't worry, I'll
bring her back.
- It's gonna be okay Mary.
(subtle piano music)
- [Soona] Okay, it's time
for your bath little girl.
Oh.
(baby crying)
- [Mary] Who has the moral right
to separate me from my child?
My children.
- I'm sorry,
there's no touching.
- [John] Well women
are above men,
and they should be honored.
The equal rights amendment
will take away privileges,
bringing them down
to the level of men.
My wife told me to say that.
- [Man] Today, Mrs. Schmitz
for the debate of the
feminine position.
- I disagree with
everything you've just said.
Women build power by
using their womanhood,
not by denying it.
- [Woman] And are you telling
me the majority of women,
- You look strong.
- Hm.
- [Jane] So your mother is
a rather un-emotional woman?
- Does that thing
always have to be on?
- Let's ignore it.
- She considers
emotions a weakness.
- [Jane] So how did she react
when your little brother died?
(subtle piano music)
(water splashing)
- [Mary] My brothers and I
were playing in the pool.
(intense music)
All of a sudden, I
heard my mother scream.
(screaming)
She found him at the
bottom of the pool.
I guess I always kind
of blamed myself.
But my father held me and
said it wasn't my fault.
When I was 19, my father
had me represent him
in a Ronald Reagan
fundraiser in Los Angeles.
I attended the private reception
with just a few people
and the Reagan's.
I was having a remarkable life.
I had decided to transfer
from my party school
to the University of Maryland.
I finally knew
exactly what I wanted
and where I wanted to be.
Washington DC, here I come.
But I got pregnant by
Steve Letourneau instead.
I just don't love him!
- Then how did you
end up like this?
- This boy is
going to marry you.
- Please no.
- She can give it
up for adoption.
- I'll have the baby and then
we'll see if it'll work out
between me and Steve.
- [John] There will
be no crying baby
in the vestibule
at your wedding.
- Daddy.
- No Mary!
We take responsibility for
our actions in this family.
- [Mary] I thought he was right,
guiding me onto my life path.
I knew I was sacrificing
the kind of marriage
we all look forward to.
I tried to get an annulment
but it's a lot harder
than you think.
Steve had a girlfriend
and I was mostly
sleeping on the couch.
- And that was okay with you?
You had no objection to that?
- No, the couch was fine.
- I mean the girlfriend?
- No, I had
emotionally separated
from the marriage long before.
And he didn't bug
me for sex as often.
Vili, I could sure use your
help with the yearbook.
- Working with you right?
- Mrs. Letourneau, how's this?
- Oh, it's wonderful.
Thanks Christine.
(intense music)
- I think I'm in
love with somebody.
- Do I know her?
- Yep.
- Does she know you love her?
- I think so.
- Is she with someone else?
- She's not happy with him.
- Does she love you?
- You tell me.
She makes me feel good
and right and natural.
- I shouldn't have
said what I said next.
He had a way of
crossing boundaries.
I knew he would grow up, I
would be out of my marriage.
Can you hold onto that feeling
for a very long time?
- Good night Mrs. Letourneau.
- Good night Vili.
- Good night.
That boy is so in love with you.
- Oh, don't be silly Jan.
- Night.
Your books.
- Thank you.
(phone ringing)
Hello?
(subtle guitar music)
- You hear that?
- Yes.
(subtle guitar music)
- I'm holding onto that feeling.
(subtle guitar music)
- That looks good too huh?
Okay, I'm gonna
go get some more.
Hey.
You feeling all right hun?
- Yeah.
- Excuse me Mrs. Letourneau?
It's time to go.
- Oh please, we're on
a yearbook deadline,
it's very important.
- Sorry, it's after 6:00.
- All right, okay I guess
I'll take this home with me.
If any of you can
come over this weekend
to help me finish it,
that would be great.
- I can.
- Oh, thank you Vili.
- [Vili] So when he's making
Faith, Lucifer cuts in
and she doesn't get
a full set of wings.
She's missing a wing, so
the boy, Cupid a warrior,
has to fight the war
to get her wing back
and help put heaven in
it's rightful place.
- So Faith inspires
Cupid, gives him courage?
- Yeah.
He needs her.
- She needs him.
- What's this?
Are you missing a
little something?
- What?
- Where is your wing?
(intense piano music)
You're so sexy
when you're happy.
I'm gonna miss you
over the summer.
- Oh.
- Take this class with me.
- No, this is for you.
- You know what I want,
I'm gonna make you all,
- Hey, no you can't
talk to me like that.
- Why?
Nobody can hear me but you.
I don't wanna see
no naked guys strip
and I have to draw his penis.
- It's fine, it's just a body.
- [Vili] You gotta
sign up, it'll be fun.
You're an artist too you know?
Come on Mary, do something
wild for a change.
- Okay, I'll be right back.
- Aw man.
So maybe next week I
could draw you huh?
You don't eat that.
Here, like this.
- You're getting
it on your mouth.
- How did I get it on my mouth?
- This is part of your
seduction plan right?
- So, I get my kiss later?
What would happen
if I came over there
and kissed you right now?
- If I were you I
would just do it.
(intense music)
(intense music)
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Your sister told
me where to find you.
I'm sorry, but I
need to talk to you.
- You're always welcome
here Mr. Dunphy.
- Oh, thank you.
Soona, we both know
what Mary did was wrong,
but do we think she deserves
seven and a half years
in prison for it?
Do you think you could
find it in your heart
to say you believe she
should be released?
- Then I'd have to give you up.
Hm.
She never said she was sorry
for what she done to my family.
- No, uh I know that but
she needs your help Soona.
- She never said she was sorry.
- We were best friends,
always together.
The sex wasn't that important.
If you could see us together
you would know that.
- [Jane] What were you hoping
or fearing would happen
after the first kiss?
- I thought we could
be strong and wait.
- Buddha!
Buddha!
(upbeat music)
Buddha, get your ass out here.
What's up with that?
That's a teacher.
- We're just kissing.
Promise me man,
don't say anything.
Mom will kill me.
- Hi Mary.
- Hi.
- How's Buddha's art class?
- Oh, it's going really well.
Do you need any help?
- Oh, I got it thanks.
Oh thanks son.
- [Vili] Ma, I'm spending the
night at Mrs. Letourneau's
hanging out with Steven.
- Oh Buddha, you bothered
Mrs. Letourneau enough.
- It's okay, right
Mrs. Letourneau?
- Oh sure.
Steven's expecting him.
- You're too good Mary.
Thank you.
- I don't understand.
Did you call the phone company?
- Yes, I called
the phone company.
- All right, well
what did they say?
- I told them that I
ain't got no money,
which is a fact we are broke.
I said, "You can't get
blood from a turnip."
- That's what you said?
- [Steve] Yes, that
is what I said.
We're broke, it's plain English.
What are you talking about?
- That's so dumb.
You ask for an installment
to pay for an installment.
- Oh, give me a break!
We are having a discussion here.
Do not talk to me like I'm
one of your students, okay?
You know, I'm sick of this!
I am so sick of this!
(gasps)
- You're the one that's
having an affair!
- Yeah, well who's
fault is that?
- Get away from me,
you get away from me.
- Who's fault is that?
You've been asking me questions,
I'm gonna ask you a few.
Who's been too good
to clean my house?
Too good to sleep with me?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
(knocking)
- Hi.
That's my favorite kind.
- I know.
(intense music)
- [Mary] Let's go.
(upbeat music)
- [Vili] When do you
think you're gonna die?
- I don't know.
My grandmother lived
till she was 102.
Maybe I'll die at 102.
- Then I'm gonna die at 81.
- Oh Vili.
- 'Cause I don't wanna live
another day without you.
(upbeat music)
- Oh my god!
(upbeat music)
- Excuse me ma'am?
Can you step out of
there for a minute?
Is there someone
in there with you?
- A friend of mine.
- How old is he?
- 18.
- You're how old?
- 13.
- [Police] Yeah, hold on.
- Soona.
- Mary?
What's wrong?
- I had a fight with
my husband and I uh,
had to get out of the house.
Vili came with me and,
- Who's this lady to you?
- My teacher.
- Uh, I was driving around.
I didn't know where to go, he
fell asleep in the back seat
and I parked the car and
the police came and um,
I'm gonna hand you
back to the officer.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- Mrs. Letourneau is our friend.
She's been very helpful
in taking care of my son.
- How do we write this out?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
♪ I just can't fake
♪ To stay at home
all by myself ♪
- What's the matter?
Come over here.
Come on, come on.
- No Vili.
- They're asleep.
- I can't Vili.
- Come on.
- Vili, please.
- Come on.
- No.
- Come on, I can't wait anymore.
- Vili please.
- I have to be with you.
- Stop it.
- [Vili] Why are you afraid?
You think I'm gonna
get you pregnant?
- No, that's not it I
can't have anymore kids.
It's you, you're just barely,
- You think I haven't
done this before?
Come on baby.
You're so pretty, come on.
I love you.
- [Mary] Vili didn't force me.
Up to a second before, I
didn't think it would happen.
- What triggered it then?
- [Mary] I needed
the relationship.
So did he.
- I need you.
- [Jane] Did you
ever have any sense
that as the adult,
you were in control?
- No.
Vili pursued me as a
man pursues a woman.
He has the dominant sexual urges
and I gave into his needs.
(bell ringing)
Outside.
This isn't your school
anymore, you can't be here.
- I can be anywhere I
want, I wanna be with you.
- You need to go
to middle school
and see what that's all about.
I've gotta get out of this
marriage the right way first
and you need to experience
being a teenager,
have girlfriends your own
age, you need to go play.
- Listen to me, recess is over.
- Mary, is everything okay?
- Yes.
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
- That kid is gonna
be trouble for you.
- Oh, you don't understand.
- I think you're gonna have
to do something about him.
- Oh you know, he's so
talented I just wanna help him.
I don't wanna abandon him like
everyone else in his life.
- [Jan] Okay, just
be careful okay?
- [Mary] Okay,
gotta get to class.
- [Son] Mom!
Mom!
- [Vili] Pregnant?
- Be right there!
- [Vili] I don't get it,
what do you mean pregnant?
I thought you couldn't
have any more kids.
- I thought so.
Which is why this is
even more of a miracle.
I'm making you a baby.
- What about abortion?
- I couldn't.
This is you and me.
- Oh man.
Mary, Mary, Mary.
Mary.
- We're linked
forever in this child.
I'm not taking these.
- For God's sake Mary,
you're only way out of this
is for something to
be wrong with you.
You plead guilty.
- You made me plead guilty.
- [Dunphy] The prosecution
has left letters,
they have a statement from
Vili, a confession from you,
they have a child
with Vili's DNA
and you wanna plead innocent?
- [Jane] Mary, this
little pill is a test,
it's just a test.
Let's see how you respond.
- [Dunphy] It shows good
faith with the court
that you admit there's a problem
and you're trying to fix it.
- I am not bipolar.
- [Dunphy] It's your
only hope for probation
and to see your kids again.
- If I see my children again,
I have to tell them
I'm a sex offender.
That's what pleading
guilty has gotten me into.
- [Dunphy] I'm gonna
get you out of this
and this is the only way.
Now,
I want you to make a statement
to the judge apologizing.
- Apologizing for what?
Vili said I should have sex
one more time with
Steve to cover.
- How long did that work?
- A little while.
- [Jane] Mary?
- That was fun huh?
- Yeah!
Mommy, what happened?
- You think I'm stupid?
That I might think
this baby is mine?
- No.
Hey kids, you wanna know what
mommy's been doing with Vili?
Huh, she's been playing house,
it's right here in
black and white!
(shouting)
(grunting)
- Hello?
Hello?
We need help.
(knocking)
- Stop seeing her or I call
the police and tell your mom.
- Is that so?
- She's my wife.
- [Man] Buddha, it's for you!
- She's mine
forever, you get it?
- I don't think so.
- Buddha, come inside.
- You better think again punk.
- That was your
teacher on the phone.
She's on her way
to the hospital.
- I fractured my tailbone.
But the baby's okay.
I need a life and
death promise from you.
Not to ever, ever, no matter
how someone questions you
tell them about us, not
even a kiss can be told.
- I wouldn't.
My spirit knows you Mary.
The cross is where we meet and
here's the blood we created,
our baby.
The heart is marriage and the
thorns will turn to flowers
and the light will be
our life in heaven.
- My brilliant boy.
- [Man] A school teacher
pregnant by a 13 year old.
Hm.
- I just wanna ask
you a few questions.
This won't take very
long, I promise.
You comfortable, do
you need anything?
You sure?
What kind of
relationship did you have
with Mrs. Letourneau, Vili?
It's okay, you won't
get in any trouble.
The boyfriend girlfriend
type relationship?
We already know Vili,
we've got proof.
- Of what?
- A girlfriend
boyfriend relationship.
Has it gone any
further than that?
- Like what?
- Did you have sex?
It's all over Vili
whether you talk or not.
Just answer the question.
Did you have sex
with Mrs. Letourneau?
- [Vili] Yeah.
- Oh, hi Mr. Fletcher,
you wanna see me?
- Mrs. Mary Letourneau?
- Yes.
- I'm Detective Lynn
Coughlin, King County Police.
You're under arrest
for rape of a child.
(intense music)
Come on.
- I have children at
home I have to call.
- You can call
from the precinct.
- What about my job,
can I work tomorrow?
- I don't think so.
I have information
that you've been having
sexual relations
with Vili Fualaau.
That the child you're
carrying may be his.
- What did Vili tell you?
- How many times did you have
sex with Mrs. Letourneau?
- I wanna hear what
you have to say.
- What did Vili say?
- Five, six.
- When was the last time?
- Last Friday night.
- I understand there
are written documents
in your husband's possession
implicating you had a
relationship with Vili.
Is the child you're
carrying Vili's?
- I think so.
- And when was the first time?
- Last summer.
I kind of forced, she said
no but we did it anyways.
Did what?
- Boyfriend and
girlfriend thing.
Had sex.
- Now what do you mean, had sex?
- A 13 year old child's baby?
What's wrong with you?
- Do you even know what that is?
- You're a teacher who took
an oath to protect children,
to help them.
How could you have
sex with this student?
- A penis going into a vagina?
- Yeah, that's what that was.
- I have two boys, one of them
is starting school next year.
Am I supposed to worry
about him being molested
by his elementary
school teachers?
Is that what you're telling me?
- No!
- Are you having sex
with other students?
Have you done this before?
- No!
No, no!
Vili's different.
He's special.
I was helping,
I was helping him with
art and with school.
And we became close.
- How you feeling?
- Nervous.
- Do you wanna give
a written statement?
- I wanna do the right thing.
I wanna do what's
right for Vili.
- She's my soulmate.
- Soulmate?
- I can't tell you what
the right thing is.
If you give a statement,
it can be used
against you in court.
- I think I need a lawyer.
- [Soona] That's what
they said Buddha.
Rape, a school teacher Buddha.
Rape, hm?
Did she rape you?
Hm?
Tell me!
What have you been doing?
Did she rape you Buddha?
Did she rape you?
What have you been doing?
(speaking Spanish)
(speaking Spanish)
Tell me Buddha!
Tell me, rape!
- Ma no!
- Mary Catherine Letourneau,
you are charged with
rape of a child.
Arraignment is set for
August the seventh.
You are not allowed contact
with the victim or his family.
You are not allowed unsupervised
contact with minors,
including your own children.
- My children have
nothing to do with this.
- [Judge] You're
further not allowed
to reside with any children,
including your own.
- That's not possible.
- [Judge] Should we lock
you up, Mrs. Letourneau?
- No your honor.
She will comply.
(intense music)
- Come here sweetness.
I want you to know that I
love Vili and he loves me.
I know some things I did
are considered wrong.
No please, you have to stay.
I can't be alone
with my children.
(screaming)
- I wanna kill that little
bitch, Steven Letourneau
for turning her in!
Ass!
And that cop calling me a child!
And do I know what sex means,
I'll give you a child bitch!
She didn't rape me!
If they wanna arrest somebody,
they should arrest me!
(screaming)
I'm gonna kill myself
for turning her in.
- Don't say that.
Don't say that.
Everybody's gonna be okay.
God will take care of all of us.
(sobbing)
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
Oh hi.
Okay, when?
I'll meet you there, bye.
(subtle music)
- I got one question Mary.
Why?
- I don't know,
it just happened.
I wish I could say.
- You broke trust.
(speaking Spanish)
Mother to mother.
You got kids, you
know what I mean.
I placed my son in your hands,
you take care of him like
you would your own son.
You broke trust with me.
What have you done to my family?
- Mary, I never
called the police.
- You're a liar.
- It was my cousin.
- So if I sleep in the van,
then I'm not residing
with my children right?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
- If you could go
back to the moment
when things changed with Vili,
would you take a
different course?
Would you do
anything differently?
- If I had turned away
from Vili, I would die.
Then what good would
I be to my children?
They need me.
I know what it's like
to need a parent.
My father's love got me
through my childhood.
- [Man] Ex-representative John
Schmitz is back in the news.
It was revealed today that
the far right politician,
fathered two children
outside of his marriage,
with one of his students
at Santa Anna college.
The 30 year old student,
- [Mary] I thought
it was God's plan,
that he changed my destiny,
that I'd have to help
raise those kids.
- You accepted his behavior?
- I understood it.
- [Jane] Did he accept
your situation with Vili?
- Do you love him?
Hm, hm.
Does he love you?
- Yes.
- Well then everything
is all right.
If nothing else, or else
you could do it politically.
- Thank you daddy.
- [John] Hello.
- Look at this.
Mary Kay, hire a cleaning lady
if you don't have
time to do this.
They're not expensive.
The two of you are quite a pair.
May God in heaven
have mercy on you.
- Where are the kids?
- [Mom] What you have done in
God's eyes requires repentance
and we think that you
need to spend time alone
to reflect on that.
- Alone?
What are you talking about?
Wait, where are the kids?
- We've talked to Steve
and we've worked it out.
- Wait.
- That if you have this child
and you give it up for adoption,
that Steve will allow you
to see these children again.
- Allow me to see the children?
He can't take my children.
He can't steal my children!
Where are they?
Daddy.
- Steve has taken
them out of school.
- What?
- [Mom] And they're
on a plane right now.
We think it's better for them
if they spend the time with us.
- No, no daddy.
Please daddy.
- It's the only way sweetheart.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
- Look what I have for you.
This is our daughter.
Say hello, say hello
to your daddy, Audrey.
Say hello.
Yes.
Say hello.
(subtle piano music)
- [Vili] She's pretty huh mama?
- [Soona] Aw, she's
beautiful son.
Will they let you keep her?
- Child protective services
will take her in 48 hours.
- Not my first granddaughter.
(phone ringing)
Am I an acceptable guardian?
(phone ringing)
- [John] Hello?
- Daddy hi.
- [John] Mary.
- Yeah, um I've been trying
to call the kids for days.
Why won't anyone
answer the phone?
- [John] Honey, Steve's
taking them to Anchorage
and your mother and I,
- Yes, I know,
I know you're not supposed
to give out this information
but my husband does
work for the airline
and they are my children.
- Mommy!
- Mommy!
- I knew you would find us.
- Oh, look at you.
- Why can't you come with us?
- Oh honey.
I love you, I love you.
Oh Jackie, hi my sweetie.
Oh come here precious girl.
Will you sing our
song to Jackie?
- I will mommy.
- You will?
- I love you.
- I love you too so much.
You be a good girl.
You now I love Vili,
but guess what?
I love you more.
- Really?
- Really.
- I'll miss you.
- I'll miss you too so much.
- [Jane] We're
gonna ask you here
if you think you
did anything wrong.
- The extra marital
part was wrong.
This person everyone calls
a boy is more of a man
than most men twice his age.
If people knew the truth,
if they knew how much
we love each other.
- [Dunphy] Yes,
well unfortunately
there's no exception
to the statute that
says it's okay to uh,
rape children even
if you love them.
- [Mary] I never
had a pager before.
911, I miss you desperately.
- 104, I love you.
- 187.
- I wanna be with you.
- [Jane] How do you think you
will have affected Vili's life
in the long run?
- I hope he's learned
from me that sex is best
in the context of a
loving relationship.
- Your mother is
here to see you.
- I, I, I brought you
a skirt and sweater.
A good blue.
- Where's daddy,
why didn't he come?
Is he all right?
- He's all right.
Don't get weepy.
Your eyes will be red
and swollen tomorrow.
- What if I don't get probation?
- Well that's why you
have to look perfect.
- Have you talked to the kids?
- You need to do penance
for your children,
give up this latest
child for adoption
and you will be redeemed.
- I can't.
- Your hair is a problem.
They wouldn't let me bring
in rollers, so I had an idea.
- Thank you.
- [Rikki] This August, 35
year old Mary Kay Letourneau
plead guilty to second
degree child rape.
- [Mom] A girl is never fully
put together without lipstick
and polish on her toes.
- Do you have any
lipstick I could borrow?
- The victim, her former
student is 13 years old.
Well today, Mary Kay
receives her sentence
in King County Court
in Washington state.
Judge Linda Lau has two options,
to force Letourneau
into counseling
or to send her to prison
for up to seven years.
- Mary Letourneau is an adult
who sexually abused a
boy, a sixth grade child.
- She's on medication,
she's more realistic now,
she gets it your honor.
- Your honor, Mary
Letourneau inherited a gene
for a condition known
as bipolar disorder
which is a
biochemical imbalance,
generally triggered by trauma.
Postpartum depression is a
particularly devastating time
for women who suffer bipolarity
and she sought her way
out of this really
unendurable despair
in her relationship
with this boy.
She saw him as a man.
She saw him as a hero, a savior,
and she rocketed from depression
to a state of a
kind of exaltation
where she felt invincible
and able, in fact compelled,
to take extraordinary risks,
emotional risks,
and sexual risks.
- [Soona] Mary is
not a bad person,
she's just a human being
that made a terrible mistake.
I do not feel that
there is a crime,
my son does not feel victimized.
Rape is when someone is forced.
My son was not forced.
He is not a victim.
So I plead here today
on behalf of Mary
and the six minor
children affected by this,
including my
granddaughter and my son,
who feels unbearable guilt.
Please, send Mary to treatment.
I ask you to look
deep into your hearts,
jail will not benefit anyone
and as God has forgiven me,
it has as a society forgive
Mary also, thank you.
(intense music)
- Your honor,
I did something that
I had no right to do
morally or legally.
It was wrong
and I am sorry.
I give you my word that
it will not happen again.
Please,
please help me.
Help me, help us all.
- [Susan] We urge the court
not to be side tracked
by the bipolar smoke screen
designed to confuse and obscure
the real question.
Can Mrs. Letourneau be
trusted on probation
when she has so abused
the trust placed in her
as a teacher, as a wife,
as a mother, as an adult?
- I am persuaded by
the expert's opinions
and the expressed wishes of
the victim and his family
that community based
treatment is appropriate.
Mrs. Letourneau, whether
you stay out of prison now
is completely in your hands.
You shall serve six
months in King County Jail
with credit for time served,
serve community placement
for the maximum term,
enroll in a three year sex
offender's treatment program,
continue psychiatric treatment
including all
medications prescribed,
undergo periodic
psychological evaluations
and lie detection tests.
You will have no
contact with the victim.
I caution you now,
Mrs. Letourneau,
violation in any degree will
result in immediate reification
of the suspended sentence
and you will be remanded to
the department of corrections
for 89 months.
(pager beeping)
(intense music)
(pager beeping)
- Who's that?
What do you need a
pager for anyway?
- So Soona can reach
me about the baby.
- Okay, let's not say
anything to them all right?
(overlapping conversation)
- Honestly, I don't know how
you could stand all this.
- I don't mind, I can handle it.
I grew up in the spotlight.
- You like the spotlight?
(subtle music)
(phone ringing)
- Steve, hi it's Mary.
Are you there?
Please pick up the phone.
Kids, it's mommy please pick up.
Are you there?
Nikki, Mary Claire,
Steven honey.
Steve, tell the
kids I love them.
I love you all, I miss,
(pager beeping)
(whimsical music)
(whimsical music)
- I got you a present.
- You look different.
Tiny little wrinkles
weren't there before.
What?
- Nothing.
- I can't hack this.
I need you with me.
- We can't.
Not yet.
Don't forget your present.
- [Vili] Let's go to Spain now.
I'll take the baby,
meet you there
and we're gone before
anybody has a clue.
- Four other children
need me, we can't run.
We have to take responsibility.
- I'm sick of responsibility.
Let's go.
- [Mary] Don't
talk like this now.
We have to stay on the
upside, have an up life, okay?
You're a father now, be a man.
- Hey kiddo, why
aren't you dressed yet?
- Can I call my mom?
- Uh no.
Come on, let's get going.
- Daddy.
- [John] Statutory
rape was a man's crime
until Washington
state passed it's ERA,
which was rejected by the US
making this a very
political case.
I was the leading
opponent of the ERA,
so I have to wonder if
you're not getting payback
from a liberal feminist
judge, prosecutor, detective.
- I'm gonna get
custody of my kids.
They have a sister and
they're gonna know her.
- Okay, I gotta go to work.
He's gotta take
care of his child.
- [John] You're gonna have
to prove rehabilitation.
Get a job, find your own place,
show yourself can be
trustworthy again.
You can do it.
I know something about you,
you're tougher than you look.
- I wonder where
I get that from.
Are you Mary Kay Letourneau?
And I said, "Excuse me, who?"
And he said, "I'm
sorry, nevermind."
- Do you think it'll be
a problem getting a job
if people recognize you?
- I don't think people will.
My 15 minutes are over.
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
Just a minute.
- Who is it?
Is it about my dad?
- I don't think you
should take this call.
Vili, you can't call here.
I'm sorry.
- What did he say?
- He said it was an emergency,
that he'd been
kicked out of school.
I couldn't tell if he
was exaggerating or not.
- I'm going to the store.
You need anything?
- No thanks.
(crickets chirping)
(intense music)
(knocking)
- [Judge Lau] This case is
not about a flawed system
it is about an opportunity
that you foolishly squandered.
Your violations are
extraordinarily outrageous
and profoundly disturbing.
The suspended sentence
is hereby revoked
and the original sentence
that I imposed not long ago
of 89 months is imposed.
(baby crying)
- See you later ma.
- Bye son.
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
- Steven?
- Mom?
- [Mary] Steven?
- [Man] Well, I heard
you talking about
this thing with this
teacher and man I, you know,
I can't believe that
there are people
that are saying that
the thing is right.
- [Woman] Well as a teacher,
I think it's
absolutely outrageous.
- [Man] Well how
about your plan?
The tying of tubes, preventing
her from being pregnant again
I mean, already two children
she'll be delivering
as a result of this.
- [Woman] Well I agree,
it's really bizarre
and this poor woman, I think
she is in desperate need.
- [Man] This kid, what is he 13?
And now he's got a kid, a baby
that he's supposed to
be helping take care of?
- [Woman] I really
feel that he will be
terribly un compassionate
towards this woman
who's obviously in love.
- [Man] Sort of consensual, I
mean when you were a young guy
didn't you sort of fantasize
getting it on with your teacher?
- [Man] That's
every kid's dream,
that's every little guy's
dream in this world.
What are you kidding me?
- [Man] And then
having sex with her.
- [Man] This kid initiated
the sexual relationship,
they both said
they were in love.
This is not a victim
aggressor relationship
that you would normally
associate with rape.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(intense music)
- My name is Cha Cha, I molested
my five year old daughter.
- Kenya Rogers, I hurt my kids.
- What did you do to them?
Say it.
- I burned them with cigarettes
and I penetrated
them with objects.
- [Narrator] Around,
around, around we go.
The past few days, that's all
anybody wants to talk about
is Mary Kay Letourneau.
The phone lines are
blazing off the hook,
ladies and gentleman
let's go to line one.
Jessica, first up in the Q.
Jessica, your opinion
on this bizarre story
of obsessive love.
- [Jessica] This obsession
of hers cost her her job,
her marriage, her children.
- [Narrator] All right, let's
go to Joel and his car phone.
Joel, if you've been
following this story
of this sixth grade
teacher doing the nasty.
- [Mom] A girl is never fully
put together without lipstick
and polish on her toes.
- [Joel] That's every little
guys dream in this world.
What are you kidding me?
Any, any guy, any guy out
there would love that.
- [Narrator] What
about your son?
What about if that
were your son?
- [Woman] She has a
Jones with this one kid
and they love her up.
You know what?
Eventually she's gonna get
out and when she gets out
she needs serious
psychiatric counseling.
- [Narrator] All right, let's
go with Steve on line three.
He so hard to trust.
Steve, you're calling
from a paid telephone?
- [Steve] Yeah.
And this teacher, she's
already got three or four kids.
She knows what it's all about.
- [Narrator] I'd love to
have the bird and the bees
talk to me and have the
experience of an older woman.
- [Woman] As a teacher, I think
it's absolutely outrageous.
I cannot believe that
she has had an affair
and their two children
with this student.
I am appalled, I am
absolutely appalled Chris.
- [Jane] Tell it
to me like a story.
- No one understands.
- [Jane] Make me understand.
- October 10, 1995.
- [Jane] What about it?
- I died on that day.
♪ Oh happy day
♪ Oh happy day
- Hello?
Oh, hey grandma.
How you doing?
Mom, the phone's for you.
Mom, it's Grandma Schmitz.
- Hello?
- [Grandma] I'm afraid
that it's bad news.
♪ Oh happy day
(razor buzzing)
- What?
- My father has prostate cancer.
- Oh, people live a
long time with that.
- They gave him three
months to two years.
Steve?
- What do you want
me to do about it?
- [Mary] I hear
the sound of keys.
Are they coming?
I hate the sound of keys.
- How did you feel
when he said that?
- He was just being
his usual absent self.
But something in me just let go
and I knew there was no hope.
- She's an unrepentant
pedophile, Charles.
We're going for the
maximum sentence.
- Mary was my
neighbor, I know her.
She's a good mom, she
was a great teacher.
Parents used to fight to get
their kids into her class.
- Then she had sex for eight
months with a 13 year old boy
resulting in a baby.
- Susan, she needs help.
- Mary Letourneau doesn't think
she's done anything wrong.
- Well, not in her
present condition.
But I was thinking,
if we could get her
onto this medication.
- She refuses to participate
in any sex offender programs.
- I think she would,
if we could just get her
onto this medication.
- [Susan] With all due
respect Dr. Newhall,
until she admits she's
committed a crime I'm immovable.
- Look, I think Mary is bipolar.
I think she's got manic
depressive tendencies.
If we could get her onto
this medication, Depakote,
it would even out
the highs and lows.
It would stabilize her
and bring her into her
more reasonable self.
- Right, jail
won't medicate her.
I mean, let's get this
woman the help she needs.
It's what we all want, for
her to admit wrong doing
and to get better, right?
Susan, you're not trying
to crucify her are you?
(subtle piano music)
- Thank you.
(subtle piano music)
(subtle piano music)
(baby crying)
- [Cha Cha] Letourneau
come on what did you do?
Girls or boys?
- [Kenya] She raped
a sixth grader.
- It was not rape.
- What would you call it?
What did you do to your victim?
- He's not my victim.
- He is your victim.
- Did you tell your kids yet
that their mommy's
a child molester?
And that she may do them.
Oh, I'm sorry
didn't they mention
that you had to tell them that?
- [Cha Cha] Just a little boy
with that smooth baby skin.
Welcome to the
program Mary Poppins.
- I am not going back there.
They're telling me that I
have to tell my own children
that I am a child molester
and that I might be
a danger to them.
I am not a child molester.
- [Jane] Legally, you are.
Regardless of how he looks,
regardless of how he sounds,
Vili is 13 and the law doesn't
care that it was consensual.
- Okay, so if you find
something mentally wrong with me
does that excuse
me from that group?
- I'm sorry, no.
You plead guilty and even
if you get probation,
you still gotta do that
group for three years.
- I should never
have plead guilty.
Those women hurt
little children, their
own little girls.
- I know.
- I'm not like them!
- I know.
- They're telling me that I
will never be a mother again.
- Okay, okay, okay,
take a breath.
You hear that your
father has cancer.
- I don't feel like
talking anymore.
- Okay.
- I was losing my dad,
I had a miscarriage,
my marriage was a disaster.
It was a very difficult time.
(bell ringing)
- [Jan] Hey Mary, morning.
- Morning.
- [Mary] Choose a
painting that you like
and try to imitate it
as best that you can.
Try to see what the
artist was imagining
when he or she was
painting the original.
Vili, will you please
stop bothering her?
- Why do you dress like
that Mrs. Letourneau?
- Excuse me?
- You're so beautiful,
you should try to
dress a little sharper.
- All right, Vili just
concentrate on your work.
- I'm done.
- Well this is very good.
Um, so does anyone know who
the original artist was?
- Joe Joe Keith.
- That's right Christine.
- Kinda got a double
meaning don't it?
- Vili, you're going to Mr.
Jordan's office right now.
Come on, let's go.
Uh class please continue
with your paintings
and I will be right back.
- I don't know where
you buy your clothes.
- What is wrong with my clothes?
- Well they're
pink for starters.
Hey, I'm sorry I didn't mean,
- You know you can't
keep doing this Vili.
Don't you understand
that you're in trouble?
- Your clothes are not that bad.
- Just come to the
office right now.
- What's the matter?
Breathe.
- My father's dying.
- I'm sorry.
- [Mary] Goodnight, I love you.
- I love you too.
Goodnight mommy.
- Sleep well.
Hey little boy, hey sweet pea.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes Jesus loves me.
Yes Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells me so.
Night angel.
I love you.
(upbeat music)
- [Boy] Hey Buddha, what's up
with the slash on your tag?
- Some girl getting
the high heart.
- [Boy] Buddha
always gets the girl.
(police siren)
- [Police] All right
guys, party's over.
All right, what's going on?
Who's responsible for this?
- I was just
lighting a cigarette
and I threw the match down and,
- [Police] And what?
Come on.
- Don't arrest me,
my mom will kill me.
- [Police] You
gonna make the call?
- [Police] Yeah,
yeah, I'll call it in.
- Buddha, you gotta get in
earlier, it's a school night.
Wouldn't it son?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
(birds chirping)
- Look, have you
seen that before?
- [Vili] Where does the
road go Mrs. Letourneau?
- [Mary] I think it
dead ends up ahead.
- No, not this road.
Our road.
(suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music)
What are you doing up?
- [Mary] I should
be asking you that.
I never go to sleep this early.
- Yeah, me neither.
- [Mary] My father is
a brilliant, wise man
with a huge heart.
You know, he ran for President.
- Of what?
- United States, silly.
- No way.
- He was in Congress.
He and I are a lot alike.
Where's your father?
- In prison.
For putting some guy in a
coma with his bare hands.
I don't really know him,
except he's a fighter.
He and I are a lot alike too.
- [Jan] Vili, shouldn't
you be asleep right now?
Go on back to your tent.
Hey.
- He has the most haunting eyes.
- You're kidding right?
- [Mary] He sees right into me.
Like he knows all my
thoughts and feelings.
Like he knows everything
I have ever thought.
- Tell me a little
bit about your father.
He ran for President?
- 72 election.
- [Jane] That was um,
Nixon and McGovern.
- Hm.
- And George Wallace.
- [Mary] The American
Independent party.
After George Wallace was
shot, my dad took his place.
He got over a million votes.
I worked on all his campaigns.
- Well, I actually don't mind
Mr. Nixon going to Red China,
I just don't want
him coming back.
Well I uh, I didn't too badly
for a Catholic John
Burcher in front of a
sea of Jewish arguably
female faces, did I?
Thank you!
Thank you.
- Mable, Mable strong and able,
get your elbows off the table.
- [John] Well I'm
about finished.
More Birdie Wine?
Why is it called Birdie Wine?
- [Kids] Because it's cheap,
cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
- [John] Okay
boys, Red China go.
- [Boy] Nixon's trip to Peking
will stand as one of the
great betrayals of history.
- Sending soldiers to Vietnam
while trading with China
was killing them is,
- Is a profound hypocrisy.
The man's a strange creature,
prone to making
exceptions for himself.
But he knows that there's
a higher moral law.
- Communists don't
believe in God.
- Sh.
- [Petitioners] Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
(patriotic music)
Racist Schmitz!
Racist Schmitz!
- Cupcake, you're
tougher than you look.
- [Mary] My father was
always the man in my life.
- Nobody ever challenged him?
Your husband, never?
- No, no, never.
Uh, not even close.
No one could ever
live up to my dad.
Until Vili.
(upbeat music)
- I'm gonna get that teacher.
- [Mary] That's for
their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be,
- Everybody wants her,
are you kidding me?
- Every girl I
asked never said no.
- That's true man,
but she's a teacher.
- [Vili] I'll put
20 bucks on it.
- All right.
- All right.
I'm gonna get her.
(upbeat music)
- [Announcer] We have an
extra special guest today,
Vili, Mr. Cock of the Watsu
lab was sitting across from me.
Child lover of the beautiful
Mary Kay Letourneau,
every boy's wet dream of
a sixth grade teacher.
Hey man.
- [Vili] Hey.
- [Announcer]
Vili, one question.
How'd she smell?
- [Vili] Uh.
- [Announcer] Did
you do it for love?
Did you get over
one of those desks?
- [Vili] Once when no
one kids were around.
- [Announcer] Beautiful.
- He just says what
people wanna hear,
he makes up things,
he's an artist.
You have to understand
that Vili is different.
In second grade, I
knew I had a prodigy.
The only problem I had
was to keep him focused.
Okay everyone, science
projects on your desk please.
(bell rings)
Okay have a great holiday!
Goodbye!
Merry Christmas, bye bye.
See you when you get back!
No science project?
Where are you Vili?
- The dark zone.
- Remember in second grade
how we used to get you
out of that dark place?
(upbeat piano music)
- You have a piano
at your house?
- Yes.
- Maybe I can come over
some time, learn more songs.
- I can teach you here.
You have to finish
your science project
or you're gonna get an F.
Finish this one thing,
it's so important.
You have so much potential,
I see it so clearly.
But you have to complete things.
- [Jane] Were you aware
of an attraction to him
at this point?
- Come on.
Do you have any lip balm?
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
They won't let me have lip
balm in here for some reason.
May I take a little for later?
No, I wasn't attracted to
him as anything other than a
very talented student.
I was proud of him,
proud to help him.
Thank you.
- So he wasn't the
man in your life yet?
- Are you patronizing me?
- No.
Absolutely not.
Let's talk about
your school years.
What kinds of schools
did you go to?
- Well, I went to about
nine schools in 12 years.
- [Mom] All right everyone,
can you sit up please?
All Catholic.
- [Mom] We're
going to say grace.
Let's put our hands together
please and bow your heads.
- [Mary] There was no continuity
in schools or friends,
it was all family, only family.
- We're going to move
you to a different school
after Easter break.
- Why?
- Pass the carrots please.
- Why mom?
- Sweetie, can you just trust
that we know what's
best for you?
- [John] Why is there an
epidemic of teenage pregnancies?
Sex education.
Ever since the implementation,
- That's why we're transferring.
They're starting sex
education at our school.
(intense music)
- [Mary] It was no big deal,
just unsupervised
kids exploring.
Eventually I said
no and it stopped.
- [Jane] After how long?
- I don't know, maybe
six or nine months.
It had no effect on me.
- [Jane] Did you
tell your parents?
- No, are you kidding?
- [Jane] Did you tell anyone?
- No.
- Mary, I have to ask you this.
Did you make this up
to help your case?
- How dare you?
(knocking)
She can't come in here.
- She can if I say she can.
- I don't have to talk to you.
- It's true, you're paying me
so you can talk or not talk.
Whatever you feel like doing.
- Yeah.
Well no one wants to talk about
what this is really about.
- Which is?
- Vili and I love each other.
We are soulmates.
He's ageless and so am I.
God brought us
together for a reason
and nothing can keep us apart.
- [Jane] Do you ever
see yourself as sort
of a rebel angel?
- I pay you so I can fire you.
- All right, okay.
(sighs)
Let me just ask you to
think about something.
Can you only enjoy
sex when it's elicit?
(whimsical music)
- I got a question for you.
How do you know if you're good?
- Vili, that's not
the right question.
The question should
be are you in love?
If you're in love
then it will be good
and right and natural.
- What do you think
about an older woman
being with a younger man?
- What do you mean?
- You feel right
and natural to me.
Why is that?
Why do I feel like I know
every little thing about you?
- You know, I have
the weirdest feeling
like you're gonna be in my
life for a very long time.
Maybe you'll marry my daughter.
- You're a runner aren't you?
- Oh, I used to be.
- Me too.
- Really?
- I'll race you to that tree.
- Oh no, no.
- Come on, come on.
- Oh God!
(whimsical music)
(shouting)
Oh my gosh!
Ow, ow.
(intense music)
(intense piano music)
(baby crying)
(baby crying)
(subtle piano music)
(baby crying)
(baby crying)
(subtle piano music)
- Hi.
Hello.
Mommy's here.
(intense piano music)
- Time's up Mr. Dunphy.
- Okay.
Mary, it's time.
(subtle piano music)
- Don't worry, I'll
bring her back.
- It's gonna be okay Mary.
(subtle piano music)
- [Soona] Okay, it's time
for your bath little girl.
Oh.
(baby crying)
- [Mary] Who has the moral right
to separate me from my child?
My children.
- I'm sorry,
there's no touching.
- [John] Well women
are above men,
and they should be honored.
The equal rights amendment
will take away privileges,
bringing them down
to the level of men.
My wife told me to say that.
- [Man] Today, Mrs. Schmitz
for the debate of the
feminine position.
- I disagree with
everything you've just said.
Women build power by
using their womanhood,
not by denying it.
- [Woman] And are you telling
me the majority of women,
- You look strong.
- Hm.
- [Jane] So your mother is
a rather un-emotional woman?
- Does that thing
always have to be on?
- Let's ignore it.
- She considers
emotions a weakness.
- [Jane] So how did she react
when your little brother died?
(subtle piano music)
(water splashing)
- [Mary] My brothers and I
were playing in the pool.
(intense music)
All of a sudden, I
heard my mother scream.
(screaming)
She found him at the
bottom of the pool.
I guess I always kind
of blamed myself.
But my father held me and
said it wasn't my fault.
When I was 19, my father
had me represent him
in a Ronald Reagan
fundraiser in Los Angeles.
I attended the private reception
with just a few people
and the Reagan's.
I was having a remarkable life.
I had decided to transfer
from my party school
to the University of Maryland.
I finally knew
exactly what I wanted
and where I wanted to be.
Washington DC, here I come.
But I got pregnant by
Steve Letourneau instead.
I just don't love him!
- Then how did you
end up like this?
- This boy is
going to marry you.
- Please no.
- She can give it
up for adoption.
- I'll have the baby and then
we'll see if it'll work out
between me and Steve.
- [John] There will
be no crying baby
in the vestibule
at your wedding.
- Daddy.
- No Mary!
We take responsibility for
our actions in this family.
- [Mary] I thought he was right,
guiding me onto my life path.
I knew I was sacrificing
the kind of marriage
we all look forward to.
I tried to get an annulment
but it's a lot harder
than you think.
Steve had a girlfriend
and I was mostly
sleeping on the couch.
- And that was okay with you?
You had no objection to that?
- No, the couch was fine.
- I mean the girlfriend?
- No, I had
emotionally separated
from the marriage long before.
And he didn't bug
me for sex as often.
Vili, I could sure use your
help with the yearbook.
- Working with you right?
- Mrs. Letourneau, how's this?
- Oh, it's wonderful.
Thanks Christine.
(intense music)
- I think I'm in
love with somebody.
- Do I know her?
- Yep.
- Does she know you love her?
- I think so.
- Is she with someone else?
- She's not happy with him.
- Does she love you?
- You tell me.
She makes me feel good
and right and natural.
- I shouldn't have
said what I said next.
He had a way of
crossing boundaries.
I knew he would grow up, I
would be out of my marriage.
Can you hold onto that feeling
for a very long time?
- Good night Mrs. Letourneau.
- Good night Vili.
- Good night.
That boy is so in love with you.
- Oh, don't be silly Jan.
- Night.
Your books.
- Thank you.
(phone ringing)
Hello?
(subtle guitar music)
- You hear that?
- Yes.
(subtle guitar music)
- I'm holding onto that feeling.
(subtle guitar music)
- That looks good too huh?
Okay, I'm gonna
go get some more.
Hey.
You feeling all right hun?
- Yeah.
- Excuse me Mrs. Letourneau?
It's time to go.
- Oh please, we're on
a yearbook deadline,
it's very important.
- Sorry, it's after 6:00.
- All right, okay I guess
I'll take this home with me.
If any of you can
come over this weekend
to help me finish it,
that would be great.
- I can.
- Oh, thank you Vili.
- [Vili] So when he's making
Faith, Lucifer cuts in
and she doesn't get
a full set of wings.
She's missing a wing, so
the boy, Cupid a warrior,
has to fight the war
to get her wing back
and help put heaven in
it's rightful place.
- So Faith inspires
Cupid, gives him courage?
- Yeah.
He needs her.
- She needs him.
- What's this?
Are you missing a
little something?
- What?
- Where is your wing?
(intense piano music)
You're so sexy
when you're happy.
I'm gonna miss you
over the summer.
- Oh.
- Take this class with me.
- No, this is for you.
- You know what I want,
I'm gonna make you all,
- Hey, no you can't
talk to me like that.
- Why?
Nobody can hear me but you.
I don't wanna see
no naked guys strip
and I have to draw his penis.
- It's fine, it's just a body.
- [Vili] You gotta
sign up, it'll be fun.
You're an artist too you know?
Come on Mary, do something
wild for a change.
- Okay, I'll be right back.
- Aw man.
So maybe next week I
could draw you huh?
You don't eat that.
Here, like this.
- You're getting
it on your mouth.
- How did I get it on my mouth?
- This is part of your
seduction plan right?
- So, I get my kiss later?
What would happen
if I came over there
and kissed you right now?
- If I were you I
would just do it.
(intense music)
(intense music)
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Your sister told
me where to find you.
I'm sorry, but I
need to talk to you.
- You're always welcome
here Mr. Dunphy.
- Oh, thank you.
Soona, we both know
what Mary did was wrong,
but do we think she deserves
seven and a half years
in prison for it?
Do you think you could
find it in your heart
to say you believe she
should be released?
- Then I'd have to give you up.
Hm.
She never said she was sorry
for what she done to my family.
- No, uh I know that but
she needs your help Soona.
- She never said she was sorry.
- We were best friends,
always together.
The sex wasn't that important.
If you could see us together
you would know that.
- [Jane] What were you hoping
or fearing would happen
after the first kiss?
- I thought we could
be strong and wait.
- Buddha!
Buddha!
(upbeat music)
Buddha, get your ass out here.
What's up with that?
That's a teacher.
- We're just kissing.
Promise me man,
don't say anything.
Mom will kill me.
- Hi Mary.
- Hi.
- How's Buddha's art class?
- Oh, it's going really well.
Do you need any help?
- Oh, I got it thanks.
Oh thanks son.
- [Vili] Ma, I'm spending the
night at Mrs. Letourneau's
hanging out with Steven.
- Oh Buddha, you bothered
Mrs. Letourneau enough.
- It's okay, right
Mrs. Letourneau?
- Oh sure.
Steven's expecting him.
- You're too good Mary.
Thank you.
- I don't understand.
Did you call the phone company?
- Yes, I called
the phone company.
- All right, well
what did they say?
- I told them that I
ain't got no money,
which is a fact we are broke.
I said, "You can't get
blood from a turnip."
- That's what you said?
- [Steve] Yes, that
is what I said.
We're broke, it's plain English.
What are you talking about?
- That's so dumb.
You ask for an installment
to pay for an installment.
- Oh, give me a break!
We are having a discussion here.
Do not talk to me like I'm
one of your students, okay?
You know, I'm sick of this!
I am so sick of this!
(gasps)
- You're the one that's
having an affair!
- Yeah, well who's
fault is that?
- Get away from me,
you get away from me.
- Who's fault is that?
You've been asking me questions,
I'm gonna ask you a few.
Who's been too good
to clean my house?
Too good to sleep with me?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
(knocking)
- Hi.
That's my favorite kind.
- I know.
(intense music)
- [Mary] Let's go.
(upbeat music)
- [Vili] When do you
think you're gonna die?
- I don't know.
My grandmother lived
till she was 102.
Maybe I'll die at 102.
- Then I'm gonna die at 81.
- Oh Vili.
- 'Cause I don't wanna live
another day without you.
(upbeat music)
- Oh my god!
(upbeat music)
- Excuse me ma'am?
Can you step out of
there for a minute?
Is there someone
in there with you?
- A friend of mine.
- How old is he?
- 18.
- You're how old?
- 13.
- [Police] Yeah, hold on.
- Soona.
- Mary?
What's wrong?
- I had a fight with
my husband and I uh,
had to get out of the house.
Vili came with me and,
- Who's this lady to you?
- My teacher.
- Uh, I was driving around.
I didn't know where to go, he
fell asleep in the back seat
and I parked the car and
the police came and um,
I'm gonna hand you
back to the officer.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- Mrs. Letourneau is our friend.
She's been very helpful
in taking care of my son.
- How do we write this out?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
♪ I just can't fake
♪ To stay at home
all by myself ♪
- What's the matter?
Come over here.
Come on, come on.
- No Vili.
- They're asleep.
- I can't Vili.
- Come on.
- Vili, please.
- Come on.
- No.
- Come on, I can't wait anymore.
- Vili please.
- I have to be with you.
- Stop it.
- [Vili] Why are you afraid?
You think I'm gonna
get you pregnant?
- No, that's not it I
can't have anymore kids.
It's you, you're just barely,
- You think I haven't
done this before?
Come on baby.
You're so pretty, come on.
I love you.
- [Mary] Vili didn't force me.
Up to a second before, I
didn't think it would happen.
- What triggered it then?
- [Mary] I needed
the relationship.
So did he.
- I need you.
- [Jane] Did you
ever have any sense
that as the adult,
you were in control?
- No.
Vili pursued me as a
man pursues a woman.
He has the dominant sexual urges
and I gave into his needs.
(bell ringing)
Outside.
This isn't your school
anymore, you can't be here.
- I can be anywhere I
want, I wanna be with you.
- You need to go
to middle school
and see what that's all about.
I've gotta get out of this
marriage the right way first
and you need to experience
being a teenager,
have girlfriends your own
age, you need to go play.
- Listen to me, recess is over.
- Mary, is everything okay?
- Yes.
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
- That kid is gonna
be trouble for you.
- Oh, you don't understand.
- I think you're gonna have
to do something about him.
- Oh you know, he's so
talented I just wanna help him.
I don't wanna abandon him like
everyone else in his life.
- [Jan] Okay, just
be careful okay?
- [Mary] Okay,
gotta get to class.
- [Son] Mom!
Mom!
- [Vili] Pregnant?
- Be right there!
- [Vili] I don't get it,
what do you mean pregnant?
I thought you couldn't
have any more kids.
- I thought so.
Which is why this is
even more of a miracle.
I'm making you a baby.
- What about abortion?
- I couldn't.
This is you and me.
- Oh man.
Mary, Mary, Mary.
Mary.
- We're linked
forever in this child.
I'm not taking these.
- For God's sake Mary,
you're only way out of this
is for something to
be wrong with you.
You plead guilty.
- You made me plead guilty.
- [Dunphy] The prosecution
has left letters,
they have a statement from
Vili, a confession from you,
they have a child
with Vili's DNA
and you wanna plead innocent?
- [Jane] Mary, this
little pill is a test,
it's just a test.
Let's see how you respond.
- [Dunphy] It shows good
faith with the court
that you admit there's a problem
and you're trying to fix it.
- I am not bipolar.
- [Dunphy] It's your
only hope for probation
and to see your kids again.
- If I see my children again,
I have to tell them
I'm a sex offender.
That's what pleading
guilty has gotten me into.
- [Dunphy] I'm gonna
get you out of this
and this is the only way.
Now,
I want you to make a statement
to the judge apologizing.
- Apologizing for what?
Vili said I should have sex
one more time with
Steve to cover.
- How long did that work?
- A little while.
- [Jane] Mary?
- That was fun huh?
- Yeah!
Mommy, what happened?
- You think I'm stupid?
That I might think
this baby is mine?
- No.
Hey kids, you wanna know what
mommy's been doing with Vili?
Huh, she's been playing house,
it's right here in
black and white!
(shouting)
(grunting)
- Hello?
Hello?
We need help.
(knocking)
- Stop seeing her or I call
the police and tell your mom.
- Is that so?
- She's my wife.
- [Man] Buddha, it's for you!
- She's mine
forever, you get it?
- I don't think so.
- Buddha, come inside.
- You better think again punk.
- That was your
teacher on the phone.
She's on her way
to the hospital.
- I fractured my tailbone.
But the baby's okay.
I need a life and
death promise from you.
Not to ever, ever, no matter
how someone questions you
tell them about us, not
even a kiss can be told.
- I wouldn't.
My spirit knows you Mary.
The cross is where we meet and
here's the blood we created,
our baby.
The heart is marriage and the
thorns will turn to flowers
and the light will be
our life in heaven.
- My brilliant boy.
- [Man] A school teacher
pregnant by a 13 year old.
Hm.
- I just wanna ask
you a few questions.
This won't take very
long, I promise.
You comfortable, do
you need anything?
You sure?
What kind of
relationship did you have
with Mrs. Letourneau, Vili?
It's okay, you won't
get in any trouble.
The boyfriend girlfriend
type relationship?
We already know Vili,
we've got proof.
- Of what?
- A girlfriend
boyfriend relationship.
Has it gone any
further than that?
- Like what?
- Did you have sex?
It's all over Vili
whether you talk or not.
Just answer the question.
Did you have sex
with Mrs. Letourneau?
- [Vili] Yeah.
- Oh, hi Mr. Fletcher,
you wanna see me?
- Mrs. Mary Letourneau?
- Yes.
- I'm Detective Lynn
Coughlin, King County Police.
You're under arrest
for rape of a child.
(intense music)
Come on.
- I have children at
home I have to call.
- You can call
from the precinct.
- What about my job,
can I work tomorrow?
- I don't think so.
I have information
that you've been having
sexual relations
with Vili Fualaau.
That the child you're
carrying may be his.
- What did Vili tell you?
- How many times did you have
sex with Mrs. Letourneau?
- I wanna hear what
you have to say.
- What did Vili say?
- Five, six.
- When was the last time?
- Last Friday night.
- I understand there
are written documents
in your husband's possession
implicating you had a
relationship with Vili.
Is the child you're
carrying Vili's?
- I think so.
- And when was the first time?
- Last summer.
I kind of forced, she said
no but we did it anyways.
Did what?
- Boyfriend and
girlfriend thing.
Had sex.
- Now what do you mean, had sex?
- A 13 year old child's baby?
What's wrong with you?
- Do you even know what that is?
- You're a teacher who took
an oath to protect children,
to help them.
How could you have
sex with this student?
- A penis going into a vagina?
- Yeah, that's what that was.
- I have two boys, one of them
is starting school next year.
Am I supposed to worry
about him being molested
by his elementary
school teachers?
Is that what you're telling me?
- No!
- Are you having sex
with other students?
Have you done this before?
- No!
No, no!
Vili's different.
He's special.
I was helping,
I was helping him with
art and with school.
And we became close.
- How you feeling?
- Nervous.
- Do you wanna give
a written statement?
- I wanna do the right thing.
I wanna do what's
right for Vili.
- She's my soulmate.
- Soulmate?
- I can't tell you what
the right thing is.
If you give a statement,
it can be used
against you in court.
- I think I need a lawyer.
- [Soona] That's what
they said Buddha.
Rape, a school teacher Buddha.
Rape, hm?
Did she rape you?
Hm?
Tell me!
What have you been doing?
Did she rape you Buddha?
Did she rape you?
What have you been doing?
(speaking Spanish)
(speaking Spanish)
Tell me Buddha!
Tell me, rape!
- Ma no!
- Mary Catherine Letourneau,
you are charged with
rape of a child.
Arraignment is set for
August the seventh.
You are not allowed contact
with the victim or his family.
You are not allowed unsupervised
contact with minors,
including your own children.
- My children have
nothing to do with this.
- [Judge] You're
further not allowed
to reside with any children,
including your own.
- That's not possible.
- [Judge] Should we lock
you up, Mrs. Letourneau?
- No your honor.
She will comply.
(intense music)
- Come here sweetness.
I want you to know that I
love Vili and he loves me.
I know some things I did
are considered wrong.
No please, you have to stay.
I can't be alone
with my children.
(screaming)
- I wanna kill that little
bitch, Steven Letourneau
for turning her in!
Ass!
And that cop calling me a child!
And do I know what sex means,
I'll give you a child bitch!
She didn't rape me!
If they wanna arrest somebody,
they should arrest me!
(screaming)
I'm gonna kill myself
for turning her in.
- Don't say that.
Don't say that.
Everybody's gonna be okay.
God will take care of all of us.
(sobbing)
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
Oh hi.
Okay, when?
I'll meet you there, bye.
(subtle music)
- I got one question Mary.
Why?
- I don't know,
it just happened.
I wish I could say.
- You broke trust.
(speaking Spanish)
Mother to mother.
You got kids, you
know what I mean.
I placed my son in your hands,
you take care of him like
you would your own son.
You broke trust with me.
What have you done to my family?
- Mary, I never
called the police.
- You're a liar.
- It was my cousin.
- So if I sleep in the van,
then I'm not residing
with my children right?
(subtle music)
(subtle music)
- If you could go
back to the moment
when things changed with Vili,
would you take a
different course?
Would you do
anything differently?
- If I had turned away
from Vili, I would die.
Then what good would
I be to my children?
They need me.
I know what it's like
to need a parent.
My father's love got me
through my childhood.
- [Man] Ex-representative John
Schmitz is back in the news.
It was revealed today that
the far right politician,
fathered two children
outside of his marriage,
with one of his students
at Santa Anna college.
The 30 year old student,
- [Mary] I thought
it was God's plan,
that he changed my destiny,
that I'd have to help
raise those kids.
- You accepted his behavior?
- I understood it.
- [Jane] Did he accept
your situation with Vili?
- Do you love him?
Hm, hm.
Does he love you?
- Yes.
- Well then everything
is all right.
If nothing else, or else
you could do it politically.
- Thank you daddy.
- [John] Hello.
- Look at this.
Mary Kay, hire a cleaning lady
if you don't have
time to do this.
They're not expensive.
The two of you are quite a pair.
May God in heaven
have mercy on you.
- Where are the kids?
- [Mom] What you have done in
God's eyes requires repentance
and we think that you
need to spend time alone
to reflect on that.
- Alone?
What are you talking about?
Wait, where are the kids?
- We've talked to Steve
and we've worked it out.
- Wait.
- That if you have this child
and you give it up for adoption,
that Steve will allow you
to see these children again.
- Allow me to see the children?
He can't take my children.
He can't steal my children!
Where are they?
Daddy.
- Steve has taken
them out of school.
- What?
- [Mom] And they're
on a plane right now.
We think it's better for them
if they spend the time with us.
- No, no daddy.
Please daddy.
- It's the only way sweetheart.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
- Look what I have for you.
This is our daughter.
Say hello, say hello
to your daddy, Audrey.
Say hello.
Yes.
Say hello.
(subtle piano music)
- [Vili] She's pretty huh mama?
- [Soona] Aw, she's
beautiful son.
Will they let you keep her?
- Child protective services
will take her in 48 hours.
- Not my first granddaughter.
(phone ringing)
Am I an acceptable guardian?
(phone ringing)
- [John] Hello?
- Daddy hi.
- [John] Mary.
- Yeah, um I've been trying
to call the kids for days.
Why won't anyone
answer the phone?
- [John] Honey, Steve's
taking them to Anchorage
and your mother and I,
- Yes, I know,
I know you're not supposed
to give out this information
but my husband does
work for the airline
and they are my children.
- Mommy!
- Mommy!
- I knew you would find us.
- Oh, look at you.
- Why can't you come with us?
- Oh honey.
I love you, I love you.
Oh Jackie, hi my sweetie.
Oh come here precious girl.
Will you sing our
song to Jackie?
- I will mommy.
- You will?
- I love you.
- I love you too so much.
You be a good girl.
You now I love Vili,
but guess what?
I love you more.
- Really?
- Really.
- I'll miss you.
- I'll miss you too so much.
- [Jane] We're
gonna ask you here
if you think you
did anything wrong.
- The extra marital
part was wrong.
This person everyone calls
a boy is more of a man
than most men twice his age.
If people knew the truth,
if they knew how much
we love each other.
- [Dunphy] Yes,
well unfortunately
there's no exception
to the statute that
says it's okay to uh,
rape children even
if you love them.
- [Mary] I never
had a pager before.
911, I miss you desperately.
- 104, I love you.
- 187.
- I wanna be with you.
- [Jane] How do you think you
will have affected Vili's life
in the long run?
- I hope he's learned
from me that sex is best
in the context of a
loving relationship.
- Your mother is
here to see you.
- I, I, I brought you
a skirt and sweater.
A good blue.
- Where's daddy,
why didn't he come?
Is he all right?
- He's all right.
Don't get weepy.
Your eyes will be red
and swollen tomorrow.
- What if I don't get probation?
- Well that's why you
have to look perfect.
- Have you talked to the kids?
- You need to do penance
for your children,
give up this latest
child for adoption
and you will be redeemed.
- I can't.
- Your hair is a problem.
They wouldn't let me bring
in rollers, so I had an idea.
- Thank you.
- [Rikki] This August, 35
year old Mary Kay Letourneau
plead guilty to second
degree child rape.
- [Mom] A girl is never fully
put together without lipstick
and polish on her toes.
- Do you have any
lipstick I could borrow?
- The victim, her former
student is 13 years old.
Well today, Mary Kay
receives her sentence
in King County Court
in Washington state.
Judge Linda Lau has two options,
to force Letourneau
into counseling
or to send her to prison
for up to seven years.
- Mary Letourneau is an adult
who sexually abused a
boy, a sixth grade child.
- She's on medication,
she's more realistic now,
she gets it your honor.
- Your honor, Mary
Letourneau inherited a gene
for a condition known
as bipolar disorder
which is a
biochemical imbalance,
generally triggered by trauma.
Postpartum depression is a
particularly devastating time
for women who suffer bipolarity
and she sought her way
out of this really
unendurable despair
in her relationship
with this boy.
She saw him as a man.
She saw him as a hero, a savior,
and she rocketed from depression
to a state of a
kind of exaltation
where she felt invincible
and able, in fact compelled,
to take extraordinary risks,
emotional risks,
and sexual risks.
- [Soona] Mary is
not a bad person,
she's just a human being
that made a terrible mistake.
I do not feel that
there is a crime,
my son does not feel victimized.
Rape is when someone is forced.
My son was not forced.
He is not a victim.
So I plead here today
on behalf of Mary
and the six minor
children affected by this,
including my
granddaughter and my son,
who feels unbearable guilt.
Please, send Mary to treatment.
I ask you to look
deep into your hearts,
jail will not benefit anyone
and as God has forgiven me,
it has as a society forgive
Mary also, thank you.
(intense music)
- Your honor,
I did something that
I had no right to do
morally or legally.
It was wrong
and I am sorry.
I give you my word that
it will not happen again.
Please,
please help me.
Help me, help us all.
- [Susan] We urge the court
not to be side tracked
by the bipolar smoke screen
designed to confuse and obscure
the real question.
Can Mrs. Letourneau be
trusted on probation
when she has so abused
the trust placed in her
as a teacher, as a wife,
as a mother, as an adult?
- I am persuaded by
the expert's opinions
and the expressed wishes of
the victim and his family
that community based
treatment is appropriate.
Mrs. Letourneau, whether
you stay out of prison now
is completely in your hands.
You shall serve six
months in King County Jail
with credit for time served,
serve community placement
for the maximum term,
enroll in a three year sex
offender's treatment program,
continue psychiatric treatment
including all
medications prescribed,
undergo periodic
psychological evaluations
and lie detection tests.
You will have no
contact with the victim.
I caution you now,
Mrs. Letourneau,
violation in any degree will
result in immediate reification
of the suspended sentence
and you will be remanded to
the department of corrections
for 89 months.
(pager beeping)
(intense music)
(pager beeping)
- Who's that?
What do you need a
pager for anyway?
- So Soona can reach
me about the baby.
- Okay, let's not say
anything to them all right?
(overlapping conversation)
- Honestly, I don't know how
you could stand all this.
- I don't mind, I can handle it.
I grew up in the spotlight.
- You like the spotlight?
(subtle music)
(phone ringing)
- Steve, hi it's Mary.
Are you there?
Please pick up the phone.
Kids, it's mommy please pick up.
Are you there?
Nikki, Mary Claire,
Steven honey.
Steve, tell the
kids I love them.
I love you all, I miss,
(pager beeping)
(whimsical music)
(whimsical music)
- I got you a present.
- You look different.
Tiny little wrinkles
weren't there before.
What?
- Nothing.
- I can't hack this.
I need you with me.
- We can't.
Not yet.
Don't forget your present.
- [Vili] Let's go to Spain now.
I'll take the baby,
meet you there
and we're gone before
anybody has a clue.
- Four other children
need me, we can't run.
We have to take responsibility.
- I'm sick of responsibility.
Let's go.
- [Mary] Don't
talk like this now.
We have to stay on the
upside, have an up life, okay?
You're a father now, be a man.
- Hey kiddo, why
aren't you dressed yet?
- Can I call my mom?
- Uh no.
Come on, let's get going.
- Daddy.
- [John] Statutory
rape was a man's crime
until Washington
state passed it's ERA,
which was rejected by the US
making this a very
political case.
I was the leading
opponent of the ERA,
so I have to wonder if
you're not getting payback
from a liberal feminist
judge, prosecutor, detective.
- I'm gonna get
custody of my kids.
They have a sister and
they're gonna know her.
- Okay, I gotta go to work.
He's gotta take
care of his child.
- [John] You're gonna have
to prove rehabilitation.
Get a job, find your own place,
show yourself can be
trustworthy again.
You can do it.
I know something about you,
you're tougher than you look.
- I wonder where
I get that from.
Are you Mary Kay Letourneau?
And I said, "Excuse me, who?"
And he said, "I'm
sorry, nevermind."
- Do you think it'll be
a problem getting a job
if people recognize you?
- I don't think people will.
My 15 minutes are over.
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
Just a minute.
- Who is it?
Is it about my dad?
- I don't think you
should take this call.
Vili, you can't call here.
I'm sorry.
- What did he say?
- He said it was an emergency,
that he'd been
kicked out of school.
I couldn't tell if he
was exaggerating or not.
- I'm going to the store.
You need anything?
- No thanks.
(crickets chirping)
(intense music)
(knocking)
- [Judge Lau] This case is
not about a flawed system
it is about an opportunity
that you foolishly squandered.
Your violations are
extraordinarily outrageous
and profoundly disturbing.
The suspended sentence
is hereby revoked
and the original sentence
that I imposed not long ago
of 89 months is imposed.
(baby crying)
- See you later ma.
- Bye son.
(phone ringing)
- Hello?
- Steven?
- Mom?
- [Mary] Steven?
- [Man] Well, I heard
you talking about
this thing with this
teacher and man I, you know,
I can't believe that
there are people
that are saying that
the thing is right.
- [Woman] Well as a teacher,
I think it's
absolutely outrageous.
- [Man] Well how
about your plan?
The tying of tubes, preventing
her from being pregnant again
I mean, already two children
she'll be delivering
as a result of this.
- [Woman] Well I agree,
it's really bizarre
and this poor woman, I think
she is in desperate need.
- [Man] This kid, what is he 13?
And now he's got a kid, a baby
that he's supposed to
be helping take care of?
- [Woman] I really
feel that he will be
terribly un compassionate
towards this woman
who's obviously in love.
- [Man] Sort of consensual, I
mean when you were a young guy
didn't you sort of fantasize
getting it on with your teacher?
- [Man] That's
every kid's dream,
that's every little guy's
dream in this world.
What are you kidding me?
- [Man] And then
having sex with her.
- [Man] This kid initiated
the sexual relationship,
they both said
they were in love.
This is not a victim
aggressor relationship
that you would normally
associate with rape.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(intense music)