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GIG HARBOR, Wash. - Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher convicted for having sex with a sixth-grade student, was released from prison Wednesday, and her 21-year-old victim quickly sought to get back together with her.
Vili Fualaau is challenging a court order that bars Letourneau from contacting him as part of her child rape sentence. He says he is an adult and can pick his friends, especially the mother of his two children.
"He is now an adult and, as an adult, is requesting that the court allow him to associate with other adults of his own choosing, specifically Mary K. Letourneau," his court motion says.
Letourneau, 42, slipped out of prison quietly after midnight and was met by a crowd that included dozens of media outlets and a group of rowdy teenage boys waving signs that said "I'm 18, Baby!" and "Take Me Home."
Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher in suburban Des Moines and an unhappily married mother of four in 1996, when she began having sex with the sixth-grader.
The sentencing order has allowed Letourneau to have contact with her two children, ages 6 and 7, by Fualaau. Letourneau has said she would consider having more children with him.
"If we are so blessed to continue a relationship and if that's what he wants, for him I would," Letourneau told Seattle's KOMO-TV.
The King County prosecutor's office is reviewing Fualaau's motion to see Letourneau again, spokesman Dan Donohoe said, and had not yet decided whether to agree to it or request a hearing before a judge.