An ex- New York City public school principal who was found to have sexted while working has been suspended for a year without pay, according to city records.
Annie Seifullah, 39, has not been fired for her actions which were detailed at a hearing this week, the New York Post reports.
She exchanged text messages with a principal at a high school in The Bronx that detailed alleged oral sex they engaged in at a school.
Sexually explicit photographs of Seifullah were previously found on Department of Education laptops, which she said was an act of ‘revenge porn’ by her ex-boyfriend, Robert Sofia.
Annie Seifullah has been suspended for a year without pay by the Department of Education after it found that she had sexted during work
Previously she was the principal of Robert F Wagner Jr Secondary School for Arts & Technology in Queens, New York
Sofia, the president of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts & Technology’s parent-teacher association, has denied the allegation.
She was removed from Robert Wagner in May 2014.
DailyMail.com exclusively reported on the Seifullah saga this past February.
She told DailyMail.com that she has been falsely accused of having sex with multiple-coworkers and said she is a victim of ‘double reverse extortion’ after education bosses threatened to reveal X-rated photos of her at a disciplinary hearing.
She said she believes New York City executives had been trying to bully her into resigning – even though the ‘evidence’ provided by her ex-boyfriend, Sofia, was dismissed as false during a Department of Education investigation.
She was also devastated to discover her abusive ex’s name among the witnesses listed to give evidence against her.
Sexually explicit photographs of Seifullah were previously found on Department of Education laptops, which she said was an act of ‘revenge porn’ by her ex-boyfriend, Robert Sofia (pictured)
‘I was extorted first by my ex who threatened to destroy my career and now the city is doing the same – using his discredited evidence to force me out of the job I loved. It is ugly and disgusting,’ she told DailyMail.com
‘The Department of Education is creating a template that means any angry ex partner can do the same thing.’
But Seifullah, who at the time was on medical leave due to stress, is refused to go quietly and launched a lawsuit against the city for violating her human and civil rights and denying her due process.
Her troubles began almost three years ago when her ex, Sofia, made good on his threat to make her ‘unemployable and undatable’.
She says he became abusive soon after they moved in together in 2013 and over the course of the year she handed him $18,000, including $300 a month in child support for his three kids.
When she finally plucked up the courage to leave, she said that he went to her bosses and claimed she’d had sex with multiple co-workers, a parent and a student.
Seifullah previously told DailyMail.com: ‘I was extorted first by my ex who threatened to destroy my career’
He also allegedly placed incriminating photos of her engaged in sex acts on her DOE laptop.
He allegedly leaked an old photo of Seifullah in black underwear, fishnet stockings and high heels to The New York Post and claimed – anonymously – that she’d had romps on school property when students were in classes nearby.
The story made headlines around the world and Seifullah was instantly removed from her $142,890-a-year job at Robert Wagner in Long Island City, Queens.
Her salary was slashed to $66,326 and she was ordered to stay away from students while the DOE conducted an investigation.
Computer forensics experts quickly concluded that the photographs, including ones of Seifullah engaged in a threesome with a man and woman, had been placed on the computer.
Investigators also ruled that all of the sex allegations were unfounded but she was asked to resign anyway because she had failed to safely secure her work laptop.
Seifullah refused, saying she would admit that the photographs were on the computer but she had not put them there.
‘They turned that down,’ she tells the DailyMail.com. ‘All I want to do is get back to the job I loved but they want me to resign.’