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The city's special commissioner of investigation, Richard Condon, says Melissa Dean, 31, had her class in P.S. 143 at Corona, Queens send cards to John Coccarelli, who appears to have had a relationship with her.

The teacher did not ask permission from parents or the school and officials say many of the cards had the children's names and addresses on them.

"She told them they were going to homeless people, going to people in the service, that they were going to people who lived alone," said Condon. "I have no idea what this woman was thinking."

"Totally ridiculous and absurd and something that we should not tolerate at all and we are not going to tolerate it," said Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott on Wednesday. "As soon as we heard about it, we removed the teacher. We are moving for that teacher's termination. It's something that's totally unacceptable when I heard about it, and I can't say on air what I said to myself because I just find it mind-boggling."

Investigators say Dean bundled the cards up together with a card of her own, which she signed "Wifey," and sent them to Coccarelli at the upstate Groveland Correctional Facility, where he is serving time for weapons charges and for violating an order of protection.

However, officials at the Nassau County district attorney’s office say Coccarelli was charged with one count of "possessing an obscene sexual performance on a child" back in 2008.

The criminal complaint related to that charge said that Coccarelli possessed a floppy disc containing nearly 30 sexually explicit photos of underage children, though he ultimately was not convicted.

The correctional officer in charge of security at Groveland intercepted the cards and did not deliver them, and instead called the principal of P.S. 143, starting the investigation.

"Suppose he got those cards, I don't know where they would end up in the prison. And you have information on 10- and 11-year-old children, their names in some instances, their addresses, and in some instance personal instances about them," said Condon. "They have no right to do that."

"It is a safety problem, but the students doesn't know who is the person and who they're writing to. They can get in trouble for doing that,” said one parent.

“That's no good, because they are supposed to ask for permission, because otherwise they can do whatever they want. That's no good, it's really no good," said another.

DOE officials say Dean was reassigned and that she no longer has contact with children.

NY1 was unable to reach Dean for comment.