Teacher Melissa Petro Admits to being a Craigslist Sex Worker

Posted by Megan Stanton on Sep 27th, 2010 and filed under Featured News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Melissa Petro

Melissa Petro

Melissa Petro recently announced that she used to trade sexual acts in exchange for cash when she was a graduate student. Petro used popular website Craigslist in order to find buyers that were looking to pay money for sexual acts.

This of course all came before she was an elementary school teacher in New York City.

Melissa Petro admitted, “From October 2006 to January 2007 I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the “erotic services” section of Craigslist.org. No more a “professional” than a person renting a room on the same site is necessarily a professional real estate broker, for me and other women and men like myself, Craigslist at that time provided a simple, familiar forum through which I could do my business with complete anonymity, from the safety and convenience of my own home.”

Her entire story was posted by her on the Huffington Post website. She fully explains how she used Craigslist as a middleman to make money as a sex worker.

Since the information has been released, the school board has decided to remove her from her classroom in NYC. The 30-year-old Petro was working as an art teacher at P.S. 70 for 3 years, and apparently used her real name when selling herself.

What do you think? Should Petro be allowed to ever teach again?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IGOU3GJBWBTQ5GCHKONP52JSRE Sam

    Yes , When someone tries to change for better then it should be accepted. It will be so demoralizing for her to loose her hard earned Job as a Teacher after going through so much struggle. Anyways she didn’t kill anyone or sold Dope. Leave her alone.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NBKMZBFMXL5UGMNGY64O47UOWI JoeM

    hey if she was a good teacher she should be able to teach, what she did in the past to her self should not be used to hold her back.

  • Anonymous

    I would do her.

  • Anonymous

    I would do her.

  • http://twitter.com/KSKryptonian Jim Garrison

    I did a lot of stuff in college I don’t do now. Stop trying to legislate morality.

  • http://twitter.com/danieldaman0220 CHyLIX

    that her past, leave it there

  • Anonymous

    hell yes do you know why … because its the past…. if this is how she put her self through grad school whats the big deal…. it would be a differnt story if shes living a double life now…. school teacher in the day; whore at night, then i can understand why she would not be able to teach. you will be suprised how many people think of odd ways to survive during graduate school hell even when earning a BA. from drugs to sex rings…and half of these people that done this is ceo’s of large corporations even doctors… To give you something to think about. If she was the best heart surgon in the country and you found out her past… you arent arent going to let her perform your sugery? or will you because thats the past and she has established her self?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Bowman/100000178938387 Charles Bowman

    Lets get real! This woman did not do anything that is not done every day. Just how many sexless marriages exist? Every man and woman I know routinely negotiate with each other regarding sex, if you do this I will do that, these actions are nothing more than a bartering system for sex. “prostitution” Why do we have community property laws? In most states, marriages need to be consummated to be valid. “Sex for assets” What other contractual agreement automatically gives both parties equal ownership regardless of investment. Besides, every politician, employee, athlete, and business owner are whores! Selling their self for money one way or another.

  • Anonymous

    why not if she is not harming the kids … she apparently did it to get through school … that doesn’t make her a paedophile does it … look at some of the people that get into power whether religious or political …. what’s their reasons? However, I do question why she actually made the statement in the first place. But as a whole she is not the first and won’t be the last to do this kind of ‘work’ to supplement income whilst studying and as long as it remains in the past she should not be prevented from teaching again

  • http://twitter.com/DR177 Freddy Sanchez

    HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/DR177 Freddy Sanchez

    HELL NO!!!!!!!!! I THINK SHE’S JUST DOING THIS FOR PUBLICITY.

  • http://twitter.com/DR177 Freddy Sanchez

    WOULD YOU LET HER TEACH YOUR KID(S)? YOU THINK SO IT IS DEMORALIZING? HOW YOU THINK THESE YOUNG KIDS FEEL KNOWING THIS NOW?

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