A 25-year-old elementary school teacher faces more than a decade behind bars after she pleaded guilty to having illicit sexual contact with one of her students.

Madison Bergmann, formerly a fifth grade teacher at River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty on Monday to child enticement with sexual contact and sexual misconduct by school staff, court records say. She could be sent to prison for up to 12 years when she is sentenced on Dec. 22.

As part of the deal, the most serious charge of first-degree child sexual assault was dismissed.

Bergmann cried for much of the hearing and as she was led away in handcuffs. She”s currently being held in the St. Croix County Jail without bond.

As Law&Crime previously reported, the victim’s parents realized something was wrong when they discovered that their son had been communicating with Bergmann nearly every day since he got her phone number on a skiing trip during winter break. A phone search revealed evidence of the inappropriate contact, local CBS affiliate WCCO reported.

Letters in a folder in the defendant’s backpack allegedly showed the engaged teacher telling the child victim she loved him “more than anyone in the world.”

“One of my cousins is in the 5th grade and I can’t imagine a man talking to her how we talk. I know we have a special relationship and I do love you more than anyone in the world but I have to be the adult here and stop,” Bergmann allegedly said.

In one alleged text exchange, the victim said, “Haha bro I just want to make out with you.” The teacher is accused of replying with, “I do too! Like alllll the time.”

Charging documents reportedly said that Bergmann’s notes tell the boy “she loves him, wants to kiss him, he turns her on and that she is obsessed with him.”

The school district reportedly called the Bergmann case “deeply troubling for all of us.”