FORMER IOWA TEACHER DETAILS ILLICIT AFFAIR WITH STUDENT:

SAYS HE CALLED HER ‘MRS. ROBINSON’ & ‘MANIPULATED’ HER WITH LOVE NOTES

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New York, NY — September 7, 2016 – INSIDE EDITION speaks exclusively with Mary Beth Haglin, a substitute English teacher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who was arrested in July for having sex with one of her students.

Haglin, who is 24, tells INSIDE EDITION that it was the 17-year-old high school senior who seduced her. “He knew how to manipulate me, and he knew how to say ‘I love you’ in just such a way,” she states.

She also says that the student bombarded her with love notes. “He would come into my classroom, grab a Post-It, write something and stick it to my desk on the way out.”

Haglin read one of those notes aloud for INSIDE EDITION: “’I love you so much, my empress.’ He would always call me ‘my empress,’” she says. Another note from the student addressed Haglin as “Mrs. Robinson,” a reference to the Simon & Garfunkel song, “Mrs. Robinson,” the theme to the 1967 film “The Graduate,” in which Dustin Hoffman’s character is seduced by an older woman.

Haglin tells INSIDE EDITION that the student’s gestures worked and that she fell “completely head over heels.”  She even sent the student provocative selfies.

When INSIDE EDITION asks Haglin what she was thinking falling for a minor, she says, “I realize how stupid I was and what a terrible mistake I made. I thought it was something that could be kept secret and nobody would ever know.”

Haglin says that she and the student would have sex almost every day in her car at a public park. “I thought in my mind this was some sort of real relationship,” she says.

Haglin says that the relationship went on for six months, until they were spotted by another student. Haglin was fired and charged with ‘sexual exploitation by a school employee.’

She turned herself into police and she now faces up to five years in prison.

She tells INSIDE EDITION that she regrets her actions. She says, “I want to go back and smack myself and ask, ‘What were you thinking Mary Beth?’”

For INSIDE EDITION’s full report, tune in on Wednesday, September 7. Check local listings for stations and times at www.insideedition.com.

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