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The bizarre ways Mary Kay Letourneau contacted her student 'lover' from behind bars.

In November 1997, a then 34-year-old Mary Kay Letourneau served a six month sentence in county jail for raping 12-year-old Vili Fualaau and falling pregnant to his child.

The pair had met in 1992 when the boy was in second grade at Shorewood Elementary School in the Seattle suburb of Burien, and entered an illegal sexual relationship four years later.

When she was released, she would rape Fualaau again and fall pregnant once again to his child. In violating her parole conditions – of which one was that she did not contact Fualaau – Letourneau returned to prison to serve a full 7.5-year sentence. It was behind bars where the couple’s second child was born.

According to the Mary Kay Letourneau episode of Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals, although Letourneau was not allowed to have any contact with her former student, she found bizarre ways to thwart the system.

“Mary stayed in touch with Vili in a lot of different ways,” Gregg Olsen, an author who has covered the case, told Barbara Walters.

“One way was to send out messages in the milk bottles that she was — [producing] milk in prison for her babies, so she put little notes in the caps and they went out.”

“She sent audiotapes out,” he added.

“She had prisoners make phone calls for her, because she could not contact him [Fualaau] directly.”