A female teacher in the US who was in a sexual relationship with a teenage student has claimed that the school turned a blind eye to the crime.
Mary Beth Haglin, a teacher at Washington High school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, claims she wasn’t banned from her profession despite her bosses knowing what she did.
The 24-year-old claimed that although the school fired her from Washington High, they did not call the police to report her crime. She was able to continue working as a substitute teacher at other schools.
She said:
“They never actually said they were banning me from school grounds, they never said they were banning me from working at any other school, they never said they were banning me from thus-and-so many feet of any school. They never said any of that.”
Haglin was having sexual relations with a 17-year-old for almost a year, first starting in October 2015.
Despite her sexual exploitation being uncovered by the first school she worked in, no one reported the crime, thus letting Haglin continue working with children.
“[They] knew full well that I was there, there was no way they could not have known. I’m sure that they were tracking me and checking me.”
Although the school administrators did not report Haglin’s crimes, one unknown figure did, which then opened up an investigation by police in Cedar Rapids. Mary Beth Haglin now faces a prison term of two years, and 10 years on the sex offender registry.
