Posted on 09/08/2016 11:47:35 AM PDT by drewh
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 had 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.
Haglin was hired as a substitute teacher in January and was terminated in May at the conclusion of an internal investigation by school administrators. An earlier probe conducted in February had failed to prove any wrongdoing on Haglins part.
Both investigations have since been labelled as ineffective by the school district and led to the resignations of three high-ranking officials, reported The Gazette.
It is believed that Haglin and the victim had been in a sexual relationship for almost the entire duration of her tenure at Washington High School.
Speaking to Inside Edition this week, the 24-year-old woman apologized for the hurt she has caused, but claimed that it was her underage lover who seduced her.
He would come into my classroom, grab a Post-It, write something and stick it to my desk on his way out, she said. One note read, I love you so much, my empress.
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Case dismissed.
Lucky little bastard.
When I was in high school, Post-it notes had yet to be invented.
She was the one in the position of power.
Lock her up.
girl next door sexy and crazy is a good combo in small doses
Innocent.
Nice post
We’ve hyoersexualized you women to act no different than men yet further criminalizes age difference sex
My grandparents who were married 60+ years would be a criminal case now
15/18
And so on
It’s nutty
We have a paradox of feminism
Empower women while at the same time make them victims as often as possible
You don't have affairs with your students while they are your students.
It is an unequal balance of power that is prone to abuse.
And I don't care if they are in High School or College, any teacher who has sex with their students should be fired and, if their student is underage, locked up for a while. Hopefully we can all agree that this should happen to any teacher that has sex with their Elementary and Middle school students although now days who knows.
It they are "so in lo-ve" they can wait the year or so until he/she or it is of age and no longer their student. It will not kill them.
I do not care if a seventeen year old boy has sex with a twenty-four year old woman AS LONG AS SHE IS NOT HIS TEACHER.
I thought I had made it clear that teachers should not have sex with their students by repeating the point several times in my last post but apparently not.
So let me try again.
TEACHERS (regardless of age) should not have sex with STUDENTS (regardless of age). It is WRONG and an ABUSE OF POWER.
If a TEACHER finds themselves attracted to a STUDENT then they should act like the adult they purport to be and keep it to themselves until after the STUDENT is no longer under their authority to in any way act on their attraction.
Is that a little clearer?
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