In 1996, a 34-year-old teacher named Mary Kay Letourneau began a sexual relationship with her 12- year-old student. Instead of calling it what it was — rape — the media had a field day. They covered this teacher’s case not in the view of her being a sexual predator, but reported her as a tragic lover who was simply ensnared in an ill-fated romance that society was simply unable to understand. Buy me a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/alwaystalk6 Case sources: https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/mary-kay-letourneau-and-vili-fualaau-relationship-timeline/amp/ https://www.biography.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/obituaries/mary-kay-letourneau-dead.html https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-and-her-student-husband-vili-fualaau-now/ http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/05/13/ctv.letourneau/index.html #marykayleturneau #truecrimepodcast #alwaystalkingcrime