Injecting Reality Into Nonsense: PCAR & the Letourneau/Faulaau Interview

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape has done a great service to sanity in releasing an edited, non-sanitized version of what ABC's press release on Barbara Walters' interview with Mary Letourneau and Villi Faulaau should have looked like from the start.PCAR's unblinking release speaks for itself, but among the idiocies that it should help to contradict is the notion that Letourneau at this point really should be forgiven, since she's been married to Faulaau for 10 years now- a longer period than many marriages in non-criminal circumstances.Here's a thought: Faulaau is likely still in a marriage with Letourneau because he was raped and broken at a remarkably tender age. His bouts with depression and substance are only a part of the testimony to this. His entire life was truncated and derailed to a degree none of us will ever fully know. This was done by Letourneau, willingly and repeatedly, until he was trapped, largely stripped of his identity, and lost.Letourneau destroyed him. The fact that she's "kept" him so far makes her no less evil, destructive, and selfish.