High school teacher sent to prison for sex with students (Photo)

A 32-year-old former high school teacher in Pennsylvania is behind bars after pleading guilty to having sex with two students and showing her breasts to another.

Lauren Harrington-Cooper will spend up to 23 months in prison after she admitted to bedding an 18-year-old and performing oral sex on another boy, 17, while working as an English teacher at Wyoming Valley West High in Plymouth, near Wilkes-Barre.

Authorities said the married teacher also had sexually charged exchanges with two other boys, 16 and 17, and showed one of them her breasts.

Another time, she allegedly preyed on a student in a classroom, purring to him, “All the candy you need is right here.”

Harrington-Cooper, of Kingston, was first arrested in December after authorities discovered her she’d slept with the 18-year-old.

Her relationship with the 17-year-old came to light a month later, and X-rated messages were found on her phone.

As part of the plea, Harrington-Cooper was forced to required to register as a sex offender for the next 25 years, and will be prohibited from teaching again.

Her attorney, Joe D’Andrea, told the Citizens Voice she suffered from a crippling lack of self-confidence.

“She has been diagnosed with some significant psychological issues of inadequacy,” D’Andrea said.

“You would think that she’s a pretty, young girl, that she would feel good about herself. But her self-esteem issues have really troubled her all of her life, and she found comfort and solace in some people giving her attention, as wrong as it was.”

Harrington-Cooper pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual contact with students and two counts of corrupting minors. Her sentence will range between 9 months and 23 months.