A husband has filed for legal separation from his wife and former teacher, who had served a jail term for having sex with him when he was 12.<\/p>\n
Vili Fualaau, now 33, submitted papers to a court in Washington state, US, to end his 12-year marriage to Mary Kay Fualaau (formerly Letourneau), aged 55.<\/p>\n
Mrs Fualaau was a married 34-year-old mother of four when she began a relationship with him.<\/p>\n
After she had served her prison term, the pair married in secret in 2005.<\/p>\n
Mr Fualaau filed for separation early this month without stating the reason for his decision, it has emerged.<\/p>\n
In the petition, he writes that neither he nor his wife own any property or have debts, US media report.<\/p>\n
Mr Fualaau, who has two children with his wife, also states that they are no longer dependent, asking for a fair division of the couple’s joint assets.<\/p>\n
His wife has so far made no public comments on the issue.<\/p>\n
Mr Fualaau was a sixth-grade student when the relationship began in Seattle in 1996.<\/p>\n
The teacher was arrested in 1997 when she was pregnant with the couple’s first child, and later admitted second-degree child rape.<\/p>\n
Her initial six-month sentence was then commuted to three months – under the condition that she would have no contacts with her former pupil.<\/p>\n
But within weeks the pair were caught having sex, and she was jailed for seven years.<\/p>\n
She gave birth to the couple’s second child in prison.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"