Sex mad teacher who slept with teen pupil ‘hundreds of times’ after seducing him with seedy selfies is jailed
Mary Beth Haglin, 24, sent a series of lewd selfies to the 17-year-old pupil at her Iowa school
A DISGRACED teacher who was nicknamed “Mrs Robinson” after confessing to sleeping with a pupil “hundreds of times” has been jailed.
Mary Beth Haglin, 24, admitted romping with the 17-year-old almost every day for six months and sending him a string of raunchy selfies.
Shocking photos shown in court revealed she had sent seductive photos of her posing in underwear to the lad.
The brunette, who became a strip club lapdancer called Bambi after being sacked from school, insisted the teenager seduced her, claiming: “I am the victim.”
But a judge found her guilty in December of sexually exploiting the student and on Friday he sentenced her to 360 days behind bars.
Judge Kevin McKeever suspended all but the 90 days she will have to serve.
Haglin told millions of viewers on TV programmes such as the Dr. Phil Show that the teen lover swept her off her feet after coming on strong and wooing her with handwritten notes and texts.
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Haglin said: “He did so with such intelligence and such an elevated vocabulary that I was completely duped by the whole facade.”
The bombshell interviews backfired on her when prosecutors turned her original misdemeanour charge into a more serious sexual exploitation one after saying they found new evidence from the recordings.
Haglin, sacked as a supply teacher at Washington High School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was arrested after turning herself in to police in July.
She later claimed on TV that she became vulnerable to the student through a troubled relationship with her boyfriend.
She said: “He caught me in my weakest moments, and he used that to his advantage.
“I did ignore a lot of that at first because obviously, I knew that it was illegal, not allowed, frowned upon - everything.”
She decided to respond to one of the student’s messages after a big bust-up with her boyfriend and they started their physical relationship in October 2015.
He compared their relationship to The Graduate movie with Dustin Hoffman and once called her “Mrs. Robinson” after Anne Bancroft’s character
Haglin told TV’s Dr. Phil: “We had sex - almost daily - in his car, my car, his mom’s house, and his dad’s house.”
She said she tried to end the affair but claimed the pupil threatened to expose her if she tried to leave him.
She added: “When things got way out of control, and I wanted out, he began saying ‘I will light a match and burn your life down.’”
Haglin said she was too scared to stop the relationship. But it ended after another student saw them together.
She was told she must register as a sex offender for ten years.
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