Mercedes Liriano: Bronx teacher uses school emails for hookups and soliciting threesomes
BRONX, NEW YORK: Mercedes Liriano, a Bronx teacher, used her school's email address to look for hookups, soliciting threesomes and exchanging lewd photos, an investigation by the special commissioner of investigation for city schools has revealed.
Liriano solicited sex in at least eight emails from December 2016 to September 2017, according to the SCI report. "Voluptuous, sexy AA female looking for dominant cpl —W4MW," an email sent by Liriano read. "Hey, I'm still wondering if you are still interested?" the email continued.
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The teacher also asked in a message, "So what are you willing to do n not do?? I ask bc for us we both need to be pleased n would want to please you too. Have u done 3somes before??" Liriano also sent bikini-clad photos of herself with a message that read, "Hello my name is Mercedes aka Mercy. Here are some pictures of me. Hope to hear from you soon." "Indecent photographs were exchanged and one of the emails contained pictures of a woman’s vagina and a woman’s buttocks," the report claimed.
Liriano, through her lawyer Jeanne Mirer, denied the allegations in the SCI report and claimed that she was never contacted to defend herself, according to the New York Post.
Who is Mercedes Liriano?
Mercedes Liriano, also known as Mercy, was the English teacher of MS224 in Mott Haven. She came into the limelight when she helped 'cancel' the white principal Patricia Catania over racism allegations. The 55-year-old teacher was also married to a man named Geoffrey for 15 years before he died in January 2022. She resigned from MS224 in September 2021.
Relationship between Mercedes Liriano and Patricia Catania
In February 2019, Liriano claimed that principal Patricia Catania told her she wasn’t allowed to teach Black history. Catania contended that she merely told the teacher she needed an adequate lesson plan, as the legal papers say. Catania claims she became the victim of a 'smear' campaign by Liriano and others.
"Ms Liriano immediately went on a loud tirade throughout the hallway and main office of the school, screaming words to the effect that I could not tell her she could not teach Black history," Catania wrote in her legal papers.
Liriano’s email exchange came to light in January 2021 as part of the discovery process in the lawsuits. SCI recommended that the DOE place a "problem code" in her file that could prevent her from further employment in city schools.
