{"id":43543,"date":"2020-07-10T02:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43543"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:56:24","slug":"speaking-ill-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43543","title":{"rendered":"Speaking ill of the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MaryKayLetourneau%20%23sexualpredator%20%23rape&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-Court-1024x763-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43544\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-Court-1024x763-1-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-Court-1024x763-1-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-Court-1024x763-1-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-Court-1024x763-1.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am sure you&#8217;ve heard it said one shouldn&#8217;t speak ill of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am about to speak ill of someone who&#8217;s just croaked.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Kay Letourneau has died of cancer. This individual will go down in history as a principal player in one of the 20th century&#8217;s most bizarre and ghastly sex scandals.\u00a0She used to teach school in a Seattle suburb. She was married and the mother of four children when one of her students &#8212; <em>a 12-year-old sixth-grader<\/em> &#8212; caught her attention.<\/p>\n<p>Letourneau then decided to seduce the boy. They had sex. She was convicted of rape and sentenced to prison. She and her husband divorced.<\/p>\n<p>After she got out of prison, Letourneau married the boy. They produced two children before that marriage ended.<\/p>\n<p>As The Associated Press reported:\u00a0<em>Seattle attorney Anne Bremner represented the police in that lawsuit, and befriended Letourneau, visiting her in prison and meeting her for lunch after her release.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-47\"><em>\u201cShe accepted that it was a crime and that she had to serve her time, but when she got out she didn\u2019t dwell,\u201d Bremner said. \u201cShe moved forward in a very positive way and raised those girls. She was somebody I rooted for. I really wanted her to do well, and she did.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the lawyer&#8217;s call. It isn&#8217;t mine. Mary Kay Letourneau was a sexual predator who should have served even more time in prison than she did. This world is a better place now that she has left it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MaryKayLetourneau%20%23sexualpredator%20%23rape&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you&#8217;ve heard it said one shouldn&#8217;t speak ill of the dead. Well, I am about to speak ill of someone who&#8217;s just croaked. Mary Kay Letourneau has died of cancer. 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