Photos: Female teacher 'blames school for her having sex with teen student'

A female teacher, Mary Beth Haglin, accused of sleeping with a pupil has blamed her former school's administrators for her alleged relationship, claiming the school administrators "turned a blind eye."

Mary Beth, a substitute teacher claimed authorities "allowed this to happen" after she was arrested for her relationship with a 17-year-old male student at Washington High in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

According to her, SubCentral, a multidistrict database for substitute teachers, should be blamed because they knew about the relationship since February but refused acting on it or reporting to police because they wanted to look good in the eyes of the public.

During an interview with CBS 2 News, she said "From April 17 to May 17, they knew and certainly probably longer than that, probably since February when they first questioned me."

''I am not shying away from this, I am not running away from this. I am facing this head-on. Previous abusive relationships led me into this. The environment the school put me in didn't help to curb anything. These people all knew what was going on, but they turned a blind eye because they wanted to protect their school and didn't want it to get into the limelight. They allowed this to happen. They knew in February."

Mary Beth has been ordered not to have contact with her teenage lover after she was released from custody at Linn County Jail and will appear in court on August accused of sexual exploitation of a minor.