Oy vey....time for another classic rant from me and actually this is an extension of an earlier blog entry but now it's just really pissing me off...

I'm sure everyone knows who Mary Kay Letourneau is...but if not let me refresh your memory. Mary Kay is in jail in Washington for having sexual relations with a twelve year old student. Ultimately she bore two children by this kid and is forbidden by a judge from ever seeing him again. Vili Fualaau is the kid's name and earlier this year, he filed a multimilion dollar lawsuit against the school district and the police department for failing to protect him from being "tortured" by Mary Kay LeTourneau. For the record, this is the "timeline" provided to go with the case:

Fall 1991: Letourneau meets Vili Fualaau, who is a student in her second-grade class at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien.
1996: Sexual relations between Letourneau, 34, and Fualaau, 12, begin.

March 4, 1997: Letourneau is charged with child rape.

May 1997: Letourneau gives birth to Fualaau's daughter, her fifth child.

Aug. 7, 1997: Letourneau pleads guilty to two counts of rape of a child. Acknowledges she still has romantic feelings for the boy.

Nov. 14, 1997: Letourneau sentenced to six months in jail and banned from seeing Fualaau.

Feb. 3, 1998: Police arrest Letourneau after finding her with the boy in a car parked a block from her home at around 3 a.m.

Feb. 6, 1998: Letourneau enters the Washington Corrections Center for Women to begin a seven-year sentence.

Oct. 17, 1998: Letourneau gives birth to Fualaau's second daughter, her sixth child.

April 26, 2000: Vili Fualaau files a lawsuit in King County Superior Court against the City of Des Moines and the Highline School District for not preventing the original affair.

Now, I have a major beed with Fualaau and his mother for bringing this case. They said that they were doing it in order to hold the school system and the police department accountable for not protecting him and possibly other students when there were supposedly clear signs of some "extra-curricular" activities between the teacher and student.

I think the truth lies more with the fact that there was no extra cash coming in from the tabloids. Mind you now, the tabloids paid THOUSANDS for the story from the mother and the kid and now they have run through all the cash and needed some supplemental income. Where do they turn? The schools and police and the kid has to change his story from saying that he loved to her staying that he was tortured and abused by her. Sorry doesn't wash with me. This is nothing more than a case of people trying to use the system in order to gain a financial windfall. Anything this kid claims to suffer from comes from his own independent free will (probably combined with something from LeTourneau herself) and the choices that he made when he exercised his free will. In all of her trials he said that he loved her and now he says he's confused and doesn't know.

Suck it up, kid. You made a bad bad bad choice and now you're living with the consequences.