If loving you is wrong: the teacher and student sex case that shocked the world - gregg olsen

Wonderfully researched.

Searing and brilliant.

A must-read!-- Ann Rule, the undisputed queen of True Crime The first case -- the one that launched an epidemic of teacher/student abuse cases -- written by New York Times bestselling author, Gregg Olsen.

You know how the story ended.

but do you know how it all started? Within hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had her baby daughter whisked from her arms.

She was then shackled and returned to her jail cell.

Just years ago, the pretty, personable Seattle schoolteacher was living a life many would envy-- she had a handsome husband, four beautiful children, and a beloved following of students.

Then she was accused of child rape, and her whole world turned upside down.

Rapist Or Victim? How did a 34-year-old married teacher fall in love with one of her sixth-grade students? Was it a complete lapse of judgment, or-- as she contends-- the meeting of two soulmates? Were the two planning to run away together-- before police caught them in a parked car? Did the couple have illicit sex in every room of the Letourneau house, as the teenager told the tabloids? Read about the case that shocked the world and rocked the headlines-- about the lonely life of Mary Kay Letourneau and the young object of her obsession, the boy who fathered two of her children.

You may think you know the story of Mary Kay Letourneau-- but you dont know the whole story until youve read.

If Loving You Is Wrong.

Includes interviews with Mary Kay Letourneau.

Amazon.

com Review: The tale seems ripe for tabloid exploitation: the fresh-faced blond elementary schoolteacher and mother of four just couldnt keep her hands off that 13-year-old boy.

Worse yet, Mary Kay Letourneau had become obsessed with the slight, Samoan teenager while he was still a student in her sixth-grade class--and he fathered two babies with her.

Yet in the hands of true crime writer Gregg Olsen, If Loving You Is Wrong becomes a poignant profile of an emotionally stunted young woman tightly wound up in a web of lies too fragile to sustain the weight of her own compulsions.

The facade the Letourneaus presented to the world was that of a devoted, upwardly mobile young couple.

In reality Steve and Mary Kay were on the verge of financial and emotional bankruptcy.

They married because shed become pregnant and appearances were everything to Mary Kays parents, ultra-conservative, family-values-promoting politician John Schmitz and his icy wife, Mary.