Georgia teacher, Lakeisha Jones, is suing her school board and a group of young teens whom she says hacked into her cell phone and posted her naked selfies online, the Daily News reported.
Jones, 34, said she was fired from the school inappropriately after the students accessed her phone that she left unattended during a business club meeting at Myers Middle School in Savannah. She gave out her cell phone password in case anyone needed to call home, allowing the students to easily get into the phone, My Fox Houston reported.
A group of teenage girls took pictures of the nudes and sent them to their friends, who posted them online. Jones is claiming that she did not know about what had happened until a student confessed a month later. She plans to press charges against the girls, in addition to a wrongful termination suit with the school.
The Savannah-Chathan School Board said they removed Jones from her position pending the outcome of an investigation. They're claiming Jones was insubordinate, didn't report the incident as soon as she heard about it and took it into her own hands to find the culprits, according to My Fox Houston. Jones's termination was voted on by the board, who also felt she was irresponsible with her cell phone.
Jones told the Daily News that her only mistake was trusting students with her phone and assuming they'd respect her privacy by not abusing that trust. Nothing in the school's policy outlines what a faculty member can and can't have on their phones, and Jones defends that whatever is on her phone is her business.
She said she isn't going to let the humiliating experience hold her back from continuing her education, describing it as nothing more than a bump in the road.
