Mary Irene Smiley is 39 years old, and she was a teacher working with disabled children at Emerald Ridge High School (Tacoma, WA). She’s headed to jail for four months for showing indecent photographs of herself to a 17 year old student:

A former teacher’s aide for the Puyallup School District will spend four months in jail for showing sexual photographs to a 17-year-old student last year.

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Substitute Judge Claire Sussman sentenced Smiley to a year in jail, but suspended 245 days. She ordered Smiley to get a psycho-sexual evaluation within two months. She said the Graham mother of three, who has no criminal record, could report to jail today.

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A 17-year-old student – who wasn’t one of Smiley’s assigned students but who had worked with her on a project – told sheriff’s investigators that she had shown him photos of her breasts and of her having oral sex with a man, charging documents say.

That’s classy.

It gets worse:

Moericke said Smiley had shown the boy more than one photo, more than once, in more than one classroom and on more than one computer. The teen also testified that he had touched Smiley’s thong underwear, Moericke said.

Smiley says that it was all a misunderstanding:

Smiley testified that the boy had seen the photos accidentally. She said the sex photo was of other people and that someone had sent it to her without her permission. She said that, on another occasion, she was trying to show the boy a photo of herself wearing a Yankees baseball cap and accidentally clicked on a photo of her breasts.

Hate when that happens. But some would say that’s what she gets for being a Yankees fan. Zing! Thanks, I’ll be here all night. Don’t forget to tip your waiter.

Rebekah M. Todd is 24 years old, and she was a health and physical education teacher at White River High School near Seattle. She’s now charged with suspicion of sexual misconduct:

Rebekah M. Todd, 24, was arraigned in Superior Court in Washington state on Thursday. She is accused of performing oral sex on the student and kissing him at a graduation party last year, according to documents provided by Pierce County Prosecutor Mary Robnett.

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Authorities launched an investigation in February after a student being questioned by a school official about a juvenile drinking party blurted out, “What are they going to do about Miss Todd? Everybody knows Miss Todd (performed oral sex on a student).”

About what you’d expect for a first time DUI:

Vili Fualaau, 23, was sentenced to one year in jail with all but one day suspended. He also was fined more than $2,000 and placed on probation.

Mary Kay Letourneau recently told Dateline (on the occassion of her one year wedding anniversary to Vili Fualaau) that they are trying to have a third child. Letourneau is 44 years old:

Cradle-robbing ex-teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and her boy-toy husband Vili Fualaau, who just celebrated their first wedding anniversary, are trying to conceive a third child, the couple revealed in a TV interview.

“Everybody hopes,” said Letourneau, 44, of her baby-making plan in an interview with NBC’s “Dateline” set to air tomorrow night. “[We're] trying to,” added Fualaau, 22.

Letourneau would also like to resume teaching if possible:

Letourneau, who is a registered sex offender and was stripped of her Washington State teaching license, says she’d like to return to the classroom.

“If I choose to, I can, I’m interested in teaching algebra at the community college,” she told “Dateline.”

She also said she would be eligible to teach at private schools but public schools are off limits.

Letourneau also talks about coded messages written on bags of breast milk that she sent Vili while in prison:

The pair revealed that while Letourneau was in prison and forbidden to have contact with him, she sent him coded messages on the plastic bags of breast milk she shipped home for one of their baby daughters. “104 was ‘I love you’ … or if something was going wrong there was another one,” she explained.

“Every time I opened the freezer and I seen all these bags of her breast milk with the numbers on it, it just made me feel really, really good, really happy about it,” he said.

So bizarre. But they seem happy I suppose.

Yes, that’s right. A karaoke musical. Whatever that is.

Apparently a group called Gorilla Tango has been doing the show for awhile in Albequerque, and now they’re going to perform it in Chicago at their new theatre opening in September:

Gorilla Tango Inc., which opened a theater in downtown Albuquerque nearly two years ago, is opening a second theater in Chicago.

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Abbate wants to promote exchanges of talent between the two locations as well and export successful productions developed here to Chicago, such as “Hamlet: The Vampire Slayer” and “The Mary Kay Letourneau Story: A Karaoke Musical.”

So if you’re a Hott for Teacher fan in Chicago I’m sure you’ll want to check that out.

People magazine is looking at Mary Kay Letourneau’s life one year after marrying Vili Fualaau, and there are quite a few interesting tidbits.

How the couple affords their lifestyle:

Letourneau, who lost her teaching license, and Fualaau, who hopes to become a tattoo artist (they rely on the substantial six-figure fee they received for the TV rights to their wedding), are focused on getting full custody of their daughters Audrey, 8, and Alexis, 7.

Fualaau on Mary Kay’s children from her previous marriage:

Still, the situation is complicated for Fualaau. “I feel like I don’t really have a place except that I’m their mother’s husband,” he says. His wife’s children “had a mom and dad and then I came into the picture and they think, ‘I hate that guy; if he hadn’t come along this would never have happened.’”

What they tell the kids:

On a trip to the supermarket, the girls start fighting, prompting Letourneau to pull Audrey aside. “I reminded her that she is older than her sister, and that seemed like a chance to bring up what happened to me and Vili,” says Letourneau. “I told her, ‘Mommy and Daddy fell in love, but the rules were that we needed to wait until Daddy was older.’ “

Kind of bizarre.