Mary Kay Letorouneau...perfect SVU

[Vball818]

I have to agree with actress Mariska Hargitay, lead actress on the TV show, "Law & Order: SVU" that what Mary Kay did to Vili was the perfect SVU crime. Gotta admit that I was appalled when I heard that she was invovled sexually with Vili who was still in elementary school and glad that she did time in prison...if it was the other way around which usually it is and that's a man getting it on with a girl who is still a minor it would still be objectionable and the outrage factor would be very high. But I'm glad there are people out there regardless if it was a man having sex with a girl or an adult women with a boy that they reacted negatively and don't approve of it. Most people are still upset about these having two daughters out of wedlock and now being married to each other. As for me I feel that they should just live their lives - don't really care what they're up to and it's time to move on.

[bigfan]

John G. Schmitz served in the House of Representatives and ran for President and the Senate. He was the kind of pure reactionary who surfaces occasionally on the national stage and leaves the mainstream gasping for breath. But at the height of the welfare state – the 1972 presidential election – he garnered a million votes. “I lost the presidency by a mere 44 million votes,” he said in what was perhaps the least offensive joke he made in his entire life.

Schmitz was born in Wisconsin and studied philosophy at Marquette University. His hero was Wisconsin’s gift to the assembly clause, Senator Joseph McCarthy. He became a pilot in the Marines. By 1960 he was teaching a class called “Communist Propaganda Techniques” at a Marine base in southern California. He also taught political science at Santa Ana College, where he remained a popular and charismatic lecturer until his retirement in the early 90s.

But the man who saw conspiracies everywhere, who was an equal opportunity bigot, and who decried America’s moral decrepitude, had, himself, a skeleton in the closet. It came to light in a curious way. An Orange County child abuse case in 1982 concerned a thirteen-month-old infant who was discovered with hair so tightly wound around his penis that the organ had nearly been severed. The baby was placed in protective custody, and the court demanded that the father step forward. It turned out to be none other than John G. Schmitz, now again a state Senator, paterfamilias of five children and, er, two others with his German mistress, once his student at Santa Ana. It marked the end of Schmitz’s political career (although he did attempt to run for Congress once more). The charges against the mother were eventually dropped and the infant restored to her care. But it was never explained what was going on with the hair-wound penis. One historian has suggested that it was a “mysterious sex – or probably anti-sex ritual … as if a chastity device.” Schmitz, feisty as ever, remarked, “I ought to get the Right to Life man-of-the-year award for this.”

In a scandal that broke years later, Mary Kay LeTourneau, the notorious Seattle schoolteacher who bore two babies with a young teenage student, turned out to be Schmitz’s daughter. Her boy lover, a Samoan, was said to be mature for his years; perhaps he had been reading that arch-liberal Margaret Mead on his own customs. “Can’t you understand that this is not a story about me,” an unrepentant LeTourneau told George magazine. “It’s a story of two remarkable men.” Those would be her thirteen-year-old student and her domineering father, both of whom LeTourneau loved beyond reason. Schmitz researched the Samoan treaty to see if there was something in it that could save her from prison. There wasn’t.

As the LeTourneau case played out in the national media, the Schmitz household was revealed to have been a chilly place, often under siege due to John’s latest atrocious remark. Mary Kay and her brother would sometimes play German marching music out the window to drown out angry demonstrators.