# Sicker Than Mary Kay LaTourneau **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 9, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866 "2004-11-09T18:00:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/1 "2004-11-09T18:00:47Z")
[http://www.turnto10.com/news/3900354/detail.html](http://www.turnto10.com/news/3900354/detail.html) This lady wants to marry an 8 year old. How fucked up is that? ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/2 "2004-11-09T18:10:28Z")
Holy fucking shit, that is way, way wrong. That fucking sick bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/3 "2004-11-09T18:19:01Z")
I heard about this on Howard Stern this morning. Very, very fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/4 "2004-11-09T18:19:27Z")
She could get 20 years in prison. He’ll be just the right age for marrying when he gets out. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/5 "2004-11-09T18:28:48Z")
Uh yeah…I live in Connecticut, luckily not in the same town, but it just goes to show you how mentally ill some of the population is. The mother of the child is (obviously) distraught, but the worse part of the whole thing is the woman who perpetrated the sexual assault, let her own 7 year old child watch. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/6 "2004-11-09T18:50:36Z")
I can’t imagine anything I would consider an appropriate punishment, but jail time doesn’t sound harsh enough (to me anyways). ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/7 "2004-11-09T18:51:22Z")
[sarcasm] Talk about taking the term “boyfriend” literally. The parents of the 8 year old boy should’ve had a clue with her welcome mat with the slogans “Old Enough to Pee, Old Enough for Me” and “After 8, It’s too Late”. [/sarcasm] Seriously, that’s fucked up. Let’s hope she gets put away for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/8 "2004-11-09T18:51:43Z")
I wonder about mental competence in this case. A woman who says that she considers an eight year old to be her “boyfriend” shows a certain disconnection from reality. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/9 "2004-11-09T18:51:48Z")
Here’s the offender’s bio: [http://www.virtualvoyage.com/studio/actress/tammyimre/bio.htm](http://www.virtualvoyage.com/studio/actress/tammyimre/bio.htm) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/10 "2004-11-09T18:55:00Z")
Wow, that’s fucking insane. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/11 "2004-11-09T19:58:39Z")
You know, it’s terrible that it happened, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/12 "2004-11-09T20:01:32Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Uh yeah…I live in Connecticut, luckily not in the same town, but it just goes to show you how mentally ill some of the population is. The mother of the child is (obviously) distraught, but the worse part of the whole thing is the woman who perpetrated the sexual assault, let her own 7 year old child watch. :eek: This little girl needs to be checked out right away, to ensure she hasn’t been sexually abused as well. Well, any more than she has been already, that is. Carrying this mental image around the rest of her life qualifies as abuse to my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/13 "2004-11-09T20:56:59Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Here’s the offender’s bio: > > [http://www.virtualvoyage.com/studio/actress/tammyimre/bio.htm](http://www.virtualvoyage.com/studio/actress/tammyimre/bio.htm) Huh. Whaddya know, she lifted her stage name from a character in [_Jerry Springer: The Opera_](http://www.davidsoul.com/jerryspringertheopera.html). I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/14 "2004-11-09T21:41:21Z")
Eight ? 8 ? Eight years old ? Pardon me I think I’m going to be sick now. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/15 "2004-11-10T12:49:01Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > You know, it’s terrible that it happened, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out. I know what you mean! Will a stepstool be needed for the first kiss at the wedding? Will this be the first ever bachelor party held at Chuck E Cheeses? Where’s the honeymoon gonna be? Disney World? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/16 "2004-11-10T13:05:47Z")
Before they put her away, she should totally stop by her local movie theater to see [Birth](http://imdb.com/title/tt0337876/). She would LOVE it! ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/17 "2004-11-10T13:15:09Z")
Very sick. Very sad for this young boy. I hope the DFCS agency in her area of CT has made steps to remove her 7 year old daughter from her custody. For whatever reason, this woman cannot be trusted to care for any child. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/18 "2004-11-10T13:33:15Z")
And they say only men are pedophiles. This is fucking sick. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/19 "2004-11-10T13:40:12Z")
Completely sick and disgusting! And the boy, being afraid to admitting to anything for fear he would get in trouble, you have to wonder how much of that fear that sick bitch planted in his mind! Her daughter ought, indeed, to be removed from her custody _immediately_. I agree that 20 years doesn’t sound like enough of a punishment, but I don’t know what would. I just hope she’s not unleashed on society any time soon. > [@DtC](#): > > I wonder about mental competence in this case. A woman who says that she considers an eight year old to be her “boyfriend” shows a certain disconnection from reality. I agree, but even if she’s nuts by legal standards, she needs to be locked up far, far from any children. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Mr\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sicker-than-mary-kay-latourneau/273866/20 "2004-11-10T14:05:22Z")
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