IRVINE, Calif. – Parent Teacher Association volunteer work can take its toll – just ask Kelli Peters.

Kent and Jill Easter

The California mother was allegedly framed by rival parents at Irvine’s Plaza Vista School in a revenge plot that has her on the stand for a second time since the nasty incident in 2011, the New York Daily News reports.

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Authorities allege parents Kent and Jill Easter planted marijuana and prescription pain killers Percocet and Vicodin in the driver’s seat of Peters’ car before calling police with an anonymous tip. The dubious deed was reportedly part of a revenge plot sparked by allegations that Peters left the Easters’ son unattended at the school and called the child slow, according to media reports.

Police contend the Easters, who are both attorneys, conspired to carry out their plan, though Kent physically drove to Peters’ home and planted the drugs in February 2011. Prosecutors said Kent Easter then called the Irvine Police Department using a fake name and Indian accent, alleging he witnessed Peters stash the drugs after driving erratically.

Peters “was detained for two hours while cops searched her home, but holes in the story soon led investigators to turn their attentions to the Easters,” the New York Daily News reports.

“If convicted, Kent faces three years behind bars for false imprisonment by fraud or deceit. His previous trial ended in a deadlock in November, with jurors voting 11-1 in favor of the conviction.”

Jill Easter has already pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and served 120 days in jail.

Kent Easter’s attorneys do not deny he called police with the fake report, but alleges it was his wife who planted the drugs and he simply went along with it.

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Kent Easter “didn’t have a backbone against his wife,” his attorney said last year, according to the Daily News.

“Jill was the operator behind the incident,” the attorney said during opening statements in the retrial that started last Thursday, according to ABC.

Court officials postponed the first day of the retrial after Peters broke down in tears when she described the traumatizing episode.

“It’s been a living hell, it really has,” Peters told ABC.

The Easters did not respond when ABC attempted to contact them at their Irvine home.

Ironically, Jill Easter also fancies herself as a crime novelist, and published a book under the pseudonym Ava Bjork titled “Holding House” about “the perfect crime.”

“Holding House” is a story about a “foolproof” and “shockingly simple” kidnapping scheme that turns into a “nightmare,” the Daily News reports.

“If you knew how to commit the perfect crime, would you do it?” the news site quoted from the book’s promotional video. “The crime was shockingly simple and 100 percent possible. No one would get hurt, and there’s no way they can get caught.”