Wow… may I just say WTH is going on in Iowa’s schools? A 24 year-old female teacher has been busted for having a six-month elicit affair with a 17 year-old student. She claims he seduced her by… and get this… leaving Post-It notes on her desk. Uh yeah… it didn’t take much for her to drop her panties did it? Sorry to be crass, but it just strikes me that she took a crush and turned it into a steamy romance. They had sex in Mary Beth Haglin’s car every day for six months. That takes extra credit to a whole new level.
Haglin claimed that administrators knew of the affair and told her to keep it hush hush. She’s a substitute teacher and was getting it on with the kid the whole six months she was there. Surprise, surprise… three administrators have resigned including Washington High Principal Dr. Ralph Plagman, who opted for early retirement. According to a cache of emails obtained by The Gazette in response to a Freedom of Information Request, Plagman even agreed to write Haglin a letter of recommendation in the midst of the second investigation into her suspected affair with the student.
From the Daily Mail:
A 24-year-old former substitute teacher from Iowa who was arrested in July after admitting to a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student says he swept her off her feet with love notes scribbled on Post-Its.
Mary Beth Haglin, of Cedar Rapids, has been charged with misdemeanor sexual exploitation by a school employee in connection to her six-month tryst with a male student at Washington High School.
On Wednesday, Haglin pleaded not guilty to the charge in writing, and her trial date has been set for November 14.
If convicted, she could face up to two years in prison and be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
If convicted, Haglin could serve two years in prison and have to register as a sex offender for ten years. I’m sure you will be shocked to know she pleaded not guilty. After all it’s not her fault the kid seduced her. Geez.
If you thought that she got caught by another teacher, you would be wrong. Another student saw them probably in her car being intimate and reported them. So much for being the kid’s Mrs. Robinson and his empress.
There were two previous investigations that unsurprisingly found no wrong doing. That was just before the three administrators resigned. Go figure. She’ll probably skate somehow on this and be back teaching our kids in no time. Think about that.
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