Letourneau And Her Victim...Sit Down With Barbara Walters

What she did was disgusting and wrong, but she has served her time, and they, both as adults have chosen to be together. I'm not sure I really have a problem with their current lives.

Yes, i would.

All I kept thinking as i watched that was, had that been my son she would not be breathing today. Anyone remember the thread with the teacher who had a middle school student ask her if she wanted to hold his balls? There was outrage over that "joke". This boy asked his teacher (AT 12) if she would consider having an affair with him...and she said she thought about it and tried to keep her distance, but ultimately could not hold back from him. OMG She is sick!

I still see him as a victim in many ways.

Just from the clip from the interview, I feel sorry for Villi.

It appears he did not have a strong family life, counseling - all the things that would have been necessary to help him through that dark time. The fact that he still suffers from depression makes me think he has continuing troubles today. He is married to a predator. The fact she did time, doesn't change that.

He met her when he was in second grade.

Poor kid.

I'm more shocked that they have stayed married for 10yrs now. That's a lot longer then most marriages I personally know IRL. Sadly.

Honestly I'm disgusted that this interview even took place. Why are they giving Letourneau (a convicted sex offender and rapist) interview time on national TV and trying to spin it as a happily ever after family life with her victim and the two children that resulted from the rape? Sick, sick, sick! Just imagine if the sexes were reversed and we were talking about a 35 year old male teacher and his 13 year old female student? Would those of you who are saying well it's all in the past, she paid her dues, whatever be saying that now?

Consider-she clearly controlled and victimized Vili and raped him just as if the roles were reversed and she (Mary Kay) were a male teacher and he (Vili) were a female student. That bullshit about "oh I thought we'd just kiss that night" is crazy! She raped him over and over again (by manipulation and control), because a child of 13 doesn't have the mental capacity to give consent.

I think poor Vili was and still is controlled by Letourneau, although I myself haven't watched the interview. I really feel for this man-he was in a vulnerable place as a 13 year old teenager and I think she saw him as being weak and easy to control. Love, my fanny! That's not love! I think deep inside he is desperately unhappy and it's all a charade.

I do remember during the trail that Letourneau's mother said she had some sort of mental illness, Bipolar disease maybe?-but that Letourneau refused to take medication for it. I do not know if that is true. Anyone else remember this?

Debbie in MD.

I saw some clips from the interview. At this point they are all adults and time has been served. I guess they are free to do what they want. Hard to understand their relationship because everything about it was just so wrong. Did they say anything about her children with her first husband? I'd have to imagine that their growing up years were very difficult.

I kind of think she got off easy. I've never ever heard of a male predator who has victimized 13 y o girls get out of jail any time quickly.

It's a disgusting double standard. It outrages me. Like the teacher in LA who got like no jail time. That's crap. A rapist is a rapist and a predator is a predator no matter what sex they are and the sentences should always be comparable, they aren't. m.phys.org/news/2012-05-female-sex-criminal-justice.html

I'm sick that she still exerts any form of control over him. She is a vile woman.

If I remember correctly, he sued the school district and got some big settlement. Ten years ago they were building a house and living off of it. It sickens me that she benefited financially from her rape of this person.

If genders were reversed, there would be a big outcry about how it is just a continuation of the abuse and control inflicted on the victim. It would be seen as a continuing abuse/domestic violence scenario.