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Women Who Rape



14 Nov 97

Teacher Gets Six Months for Affair with Boy

By Luke Burbank

KENT, WA (Reuters) - A former elementary school teacher who bore the child of her 14-year-old student avoided a long prison sentence Friday when a judge ordered her into a treatment program for sex offenders.

King County Superior Court Judge Linda Lau ordered Mary K. L., 35, to serve 180 days in the county jail but suspended an 89-month prison sentence on condition that the former teacher complete a three-year treatment program and follow other parole conditions.

With credit for time served, L. could be free in less than three months.

A tearful L., wearing a light blue sweater and pleated black skirt at the hearing in a jailhouse courtroom, apologized and begged for mercy before her sentence.

"I did something that I had no right to do morally or legally," she said. "It was wrong, and I am sorry. I give you my word that it will not happen again."

Prosecutors had sought a sentence of between five and eight years, the standard for child rape, arguing that L. was not amenable to treatment.

But L. was supported at the hearing by the mother of her victim, who is caring for their 6-month-old daughter.

"Mary's not a bad person," she said. "She's just a human being who made a terrible mistake."

L. was a married mother of four and a popular teacher in the Seattle suburb of Burien when she began an eight-month sexual relationship last year, when the boy was 13. She has been jailed since pleading guilty to two counts of child rape in August.

L. first met the boy when he was in her second-grade class and remained a mentor figure over the years. The relationship turned sexual after L. became a sixth-grade teacher and the boy was in her class again.

The boy has denied he is a victim and has said he wants to marry his former teacher.

L.'s husband has filed for divorce and moved with their four children to Alaska.

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