Former substitute teacher Mary Beth Haglin said she was assigned to other schools months after authorities found out she was accused of sleeping with a 17-year-old boy



A female teacher accused of sleeping with a pupil has blamed school administrators for "turning a blind eye."

Mary Beth Haglin,24, even claimed authorities "allowed this to happen" after she was arrested for her relationship with the 17-year-old boy at Washington High in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

She told The Gazette SubCentral, a multidistrict database for substitute teachers, need to take a share of the blame, claiming they knew about the matter since February, but ignored it to protect themselves getting into the limelight.

Police in Iowa say the former substitute teacher will appear in court next month accused of sexual exploitation of a minor.



Haglin was ordered to have no contact with her young lover after she was released from custody at Linn County Jail.

But she spoke out about the accusations during an interview with CBS 2 News, where she claimed the school knew about the relationship long before they reported it to the authorities.



While she said she appreciates her role and understands she made a mistake, she told the station the school dropped the ball too.

Haglin told them that even though the school said they were investigating, she was still assigned to other Cedar Rapids schools as a substitute.



In school records, seen by the local news station, it showed that after she was released from Washington High in mid-May, she was re-assigned to work at Harrison Elementary, Oak Ridge and Prairie Creek intermediate.

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This post has been edited by bingding: Jul 28 2016, 08:24 AM