Chapter 129 Section 11

On May 9, Normandy Park Police received a 911 call from Mary Kay.When officers arrived at the Letourneau home, they saw a 4-by-2-inch gash on Mary Kay's towering abdomen.Mary Kay said it was her husband who hit him, but she insisted that Steven not be arrested. Later that same day, Mary Kay heard Steven driving back again, went out and stopped him in the driveway, telling him the police had just arrived.The two were arguing, and Steven suddenly slammed on the accelerator, brushed past Mary Kay, brought her to the ground, and drove away.A neighbor took Mary Kay to the hospital, where the doctor found Mary Kay had a dislocated pelvis, a bruised left shoulder, and bruised left leg and elbow.

A few days later, when Mary Kay and Steven spoke on the phone, Steven said viciously: "I wish I could kill you and the little nigger in your belly!" Mary Kay's friends advised her not to argue with Steven: "He lost to a 13-year-old kid, what do you want him to do?" Steven's cousin Lingdan Gardon warned him: "If you dare to touch her again, you will be the one who will go to prison." On May 29, 1997, Mary Kay gave birth to a baby girl weighing 9 pounds 10 ounces and 4.4 kilograms at full term.She named the dark-haired, dark-skinned child Odilo Roclane Vallao. "Odilou" was named after one of Mary Kay's aunts, and "Rocklanie" is Samoan, which means "rose in heaven".The child's father, Willie Vallao, mingled with a large group of Samoan relatives and friends, in defiance of court orders, to visit the hospital quietly.

Mary Kay's side seemed relatively deserted, with only music teacher Beth Adele and Meixian Renault who came here from Southern California. In July, Mary Kay began what she later described as a "Hitler-style" psychological evaluation process as ordered by the court.Psychologists participating in the evaluation must be accredited by the prosecution.They go through Mary Kay's entire history to date: her childhood, her student days, her family, and most importantly, her marriage and her relationships with students. Every day when she returned home, Mary Kay complained to her friends on the phone: "They tried every means to dismember my brain and make me completely collapse. They wanted to subdue me step by step and force me to submit."

"They didn't allow me any free will. If what I said didn't meet their requirements, they beat around the bush, relentlessly, over and over again until I 'got it right'. They said to me: 'You must realize your Sick in the head, and very sick.''You have to tell your kids that you're a serious pedophile.'” "They pushed me to admit that my relationship with Willie was wrong and immoral, but I don't think so." "They questioned me in every detail and insulted me blatantly. They asked all the opposite sexes I had been with for decades, and all the details of every sex I had. , infinitely above the outline.”

"These people are not 'helping' me, they are trying to incriminate me." "They are the most disrespectful, cruel, inhuman bunch of outrageous people I have ever seen in my life." "I'd rather go to jail than see them again." But no, once the psychological evaluation started, Mary Kay had to go through the whole process of "hell".Besides, that's what she and her lawyer asked for themselves. Later, the "insult" against Mary Kay developed to the point of publicity. "They said to me: 'If you see any child, even a picture of a child, you must report it to us.'"

One day, while Mary Kay was waiting in the waiting room, a woman walked in with her baby in her arms. "They told the woman to leave immediately because I was a 'sex offender' and a 'child molester' and could harm her baby. For God's sake, all she was holding was a baby!" Meixian Renault is the person who heard Mary Kay complain the most. She believes: "These so-called experts are collecting evidence for the prosecution from the beginning to the end. Everything Mary Kay said is just Aggravating their sins. . . . They made Mary Kay more and more involved in these trumped-up charges."

On August 7, 1997, after Mary Kay finished her maternity leave, she was placed in the Kenn Regional Jail, where she waited for her case to be heard with other criminals.The day before she went to prison, she asked someone to have her hair done, accepted an interview with the NBC TV special program "Dateline", and rushed to the West Tower Airport, taking advantage of her ex-husband Steven and the four children of the Letoney family from the capital. Returning to Alaska from Washington, D.C., I had a chance to meet my children in a hurry when I changed planes in Seattle.Mary Kay realized at this point that they would not see each other again for a long time to come.In the evening, Mary Kay delivered her youngest daughter, Odilou, to Vallao's house, as promised, and handed it over to the child's grandmother, Sonna.

Television reporter Karen Orili reported that Mary Kay was the most educated, well-mannered, and beautiful of all the inmates in the Kenn Regional Prison at the time. "She didn't look like someone who should go to jail, but she's in jail." On November 14, 1997, as one reporter reported: "The whole world is watching the courtroom of Ken District Judge Linda Liu, watching the 'Mary Catherine Letourneau Rape of Toddlers' case ' judgment." There was no drama in the case itself, and lawyers for the prosecution and the defense had reached an agreement after many negotiations: Mary Kay pleaded guilty and took at least six months of the drugs prescribed by the experts. months in exchange for a 180-day jail sentence instead of a seven-year sentence.After serving her sentence, Mary Kay will regularly participate in the treatment and discipline of "sexual assault offenders" for at least 3 years.

Mary Kay still looked beautiful, dignified, and sweet, but unusually pale and thin.Following the speeches by lawyers and psychologists from both sides, Mary Kay stood up and began her confession to Judge Liu according to a pre-written script.Mary Kay later told a friend that her lawyer, David Goerke, had told her to speak sad, contrite, and preferably heartbroken.