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A teacher looks like the cat that got the cream in this custody picture - despite facing years behind bars over child sex charges.

Heidi Verret, 30, grins in the mugshot after allegedly seducing three pupils at her home in Houma, Louisiana.

The brunette, a supply teacher at the town's Terrebonne Parish School, is also accused of exchanging X-rated messages with a 12-year-old on social media.

Verret had sex with a trio of teenagers at her home, say prosecutors, and was arrested this week by Houma Police Department officers.

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She is charged with three counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and one count of indecent behaviour with a juvenile.

Police became involved after receiving a tip-off from about Verret's alleged romps with the young students.

Detectives are also probing her relationship with the 12-year-old, whom she was in contact with over the internet.

Verret's sessions with the teen lads, all aged 15 or 16, allegedly happened multiple times over several months.

The age of sexual consent in the state is 17.

Police have not revealed if the boys were her pupils and it is unclear if Verret has kept her job at the school.