(RedState) Twenty-seven years ago, Mary Kay Letourneau was a household name. In 1997, she was a 34-year-old married teacher with five children. She was on trial for child rape. Four years before, Letourneau had her eye on a little boy named Vili Fualaau. When Vili reached the ripe age of 12, Letourneau began her sexual exploitation of the pre-teen. She had intercourse with Vili well before he could drive a car, or vote. She raped him well before he could think for himself.
Twenty-seven years ago, Letourneau seemed to be an aberration. An outlier. An uncommon but raging sexual predator. Sadly, Letourneau is but a footnote now. Sexual predators posing as teachers are common now, and not predominantly male teachers creeping on high school teenagers but women offering themselves to teenage boys. Schools, and school districts, are doing their best to cover it up.
In Gatesville Texas, an eighth-grade teacher named Christine Cockrell (who resembles someone’s grandmother) sent photos of her breasts to a junior high student. Cockrell couldn’t recall all the social platforms she used. She was arrested when the teen’s mom found out. She admitted to creeping on another teen the year before. (Read More)
