Letourneau, ex-pupil to marry April 16, gift registry indicates

Mary K. Letourneau — the former schoolteacher who made international headlines and spent nearly seven years in prison for having sex with a 12-year-old student — now plans to marry the former student.

Letourneau, 43, bore two children by Vili Fualaau, now 22.

According to the Bon-Macy's online bridal registry, Letourneau and Fualaau, 22, are planning to marry on April 16, although someone close to the couple says no specific date has been set.

The gifts the couple requested include a full set of Villeroy & Boch casual china in bright green and yellow, according to the Web site.

Letourneau was a married mother of four when she began a sexual relationship with Fualaau, who was then 12. Letourneau has said that she initially was a mentor to Fualaau, introducing him to the piano, buying him art supplies and even taking a community-college art class with him.

Vili Fualaau

When Fualaau was in sixth grade, they have both said, he asked her to marry him and gave her a sterling-silver ring that he had found on the street.

"She took her husband's ring off and put mine on," Fualaau said during a 2002 civil trial, in which he and his mother unsuccessfully sued the Highline School District for not preventing the relationship. "She wore it every day at school."

After the sexual relationship was discovered, Letourneau pleaded guilty to second-degree child rape and accepted sex-offender treatment. But a month after her conditional release, she was caught having sex with Fualaau again and was sent to prison, where she bore their second daughter.

Fualaau's mother has been raising the couple's daughters, now ages 7 and 5.

When Letourneau was released from prison late last year, Fualaau successfully petitioned the court to lift a no-contact order.