No More Charges in Teacher’s Rape of Boy

The imprisoned schoolteacher who gave birth last week to a second child fathered by a former student she was convicted of raping will not face additional charges. Mary Kay Letourneau is being punished sufficiently under a prison sentence of seven years and five months for her 1997 guilty plea, King County, Wash., prosecutor Norm Maleng said. Letourneau’s sentence had previously been suspended and she was freed, but three days later, on Feb. 3, she was found in a car with the boy and her sentence was reinstated. Prosecutors had considered a third-degree child rape charge against her after she gave birth to their second daughter. A conviction would have added up to five years to her sentence, Maleng said.