MARY KAY LETOURNEAU Teacher who had sex with boy gets out of prison

GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) -- Mary Kay Letourneau, the one-time grade-school teacher whose seduction of a sixth-grade pupil launched a thousand tabloid covers, has been released from prison, a corrections spokeswoman said early today.
Letourneau served 71/2 years for child rape and avoided reporters when she was freed from the Washington Corrections Center for Women prison near here. Attempts to reach attorneys for Letourneau were unsuccessful.
As a condition of her release, Letourneau, 42, can't contact her former pupil, Vili Fualaau, now 21. Fualaau could ask a judge to dissolve that no-contact order, but as of Tuesday the King County Superior Court hadn't received any such request.
As a sex offender, Letourneau will have to register with the state and receive court-ordered treatment. Authorities will notify her new neighbors -- although the TV trucks will probably tip them off first. More than seven years in prison has done little to dim Letourneau's notoriety.
Letourneau was a 34-year-old elementary school teacher in suburban Seattle and a married mother of four in 1996 when her friendship with the then-12-year-old Fualaau mutated into flirtation and then sex.
The illicit relationship was revealed when Letourneau's husband, Steve, found love letters from the boy. Steve Letourneau later moved to Alaska with the couple's children and was granted a divorce.
When Letourneau was arrested in 1997, she was already pregnant with Fualaau's daughter. A judge sentenced her to six months in jail for second-degree child rape, and ordered her to stay away from Fualaau.
But the temptation proved too much for her to resist. A month after Letourneau was released, she was caught having sex with Fualaau in her car, a violation of her parole. She was sent to prison for 71/2 years, and gave birth to Fualaau's second daughter behind bars.