NJ woman wins lawsuit against ex-teacher who posted her nudes on revenge-porn site

A 29-year-old New Jersey woman has won a lawsuit against her former high school math teacher who posted her nude selfies on a revenge-porn website.

Kaitlyn Cannon, a graduate of Wall High School in New Jersey, was appalled to find the intimate snaps on a site called Anon-IB in 2018, two years after she sent the pics to her then-boyfriend when she attended Penn State, Insider reported.

Cannon has no idea how her former teacher, Christopher Doyle, obtained the images.

“I didn’t think there would be someone in my life who would do this kind of thing,” Cannon testified last week in Ocean County Superior Court, according to the outlet.

“He’s my former teacher. He’s not someone who’s supposed to see me that way,” added Cannon, who was awarded $10,000 in damages.

In March 2018, she received an alarming text from an old friend who informed her that the graphic images had been posted on the Dutch site, which peddles non-consensual porn.

Cannon’s ex-boyfriend, whom she dated for four years, later told her that he had lost the phone to which she sent the revealing selfies, according to the news outlet.

On Friday, an Ocean County jury found that the person responsible for sharing the 14 nude and seminude images was Doyle, Insider reported.

An investigation determined that the images were posted on Anon-IB from his home IP address – although it was unclear how he obtained them.

“I was shocked and confused, hoping it wasn’t real,” she testified last week.

Doyle has been ordered to pay Cannon $10,000 in damages after the jury decided that he violated New Jersey’s nonconsensual porn statute and a law against publicly disclosing private information.

“Unfortunately, despite this egregious finding, the jury awarded KC a mere $10,000 in damages,” the woman’s attorney, Cali Madia, told Insider.

“We’re obviously delighted that the jury saw through the defendant’s story, but also disappointed that the award doesn’t reflect the real harm the defendant caused,” Madia added.

All of the leaked images showed her first name, her last initial and her Jersey hometown, while some also revealed her face, according to Insider.

Cannon testified that she had received creepy messages on Facebook from men across New Jersey – and that her parents and grandmother answered their phones to heavy breathing and lewd remarks.

She said she has suffered through five years of nightmares, panic attacks and hundreds of hours in therapy amid the ordeal.

Doyle had claimed he did not remember if he had posted the images – but Madia told Insider that the jury didn’t believe him. 

Last week, Doyle’s attorney, James Uilano, declined to explain his client’s defense to Insider, which reported that his questioning of witnesses suggested he would argue his client was not the original or only person to post the selfies.

“There’s a theory Mr. Doyle would have seen them on the internet,” Uilano said, Insider reported.

Madia succeeded in getting the photos removed from the site two weeks after they appeared, but Cannon said she would be forever haunted by the ordeal.

“It ruined my whole life in New Jersey because I felt like I couldn’t leave my house,” she said, according to Insider. “I felt unsafety in my own body, feeling like it didn’t belong to me anymore.”

Cannon — who was diagnosed with PTSD and prescribed antidepressants — t​old the jury that she reported the matter to local police, who didn’t file criminal charges against Doyle, the outlet reported.

She told Insider that her civil case was meant to hold Doyle accountable.

“These websites work by being organized by country, then state, and then town. He went to a page for young women in the town that he works in, and he was looking for naked photos,” she told the outlet. “To me, that’s so alarming. There could have been people who are still his students on these websites.”

Cannon also has set up a TikTok account using the handle @revengeprngirl to share her experience and to discuss the mental effects of revenge porn.

Doyle refused to comment to Insider, which also sent an email to a freshman math teacher with his name at the Perth Amboy High School. It was not returned.

The Perth Amboy and Wall school districts did not return calls from the outlet.