Oops! University teaching assistant accidentally emails images from online sex session with boyfriend to her students

Class expecting solutions to math problem received explicit pictures
University investigating as woman expresses regret for mistake

PUBLISHED: 13:54 EST, 23 October 2013 | UPDATED: 14:49 EST, 23 October 2013

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A university teaching assistant is being investigated after accidentally sending a class nude pictures of herself engaging in a sex act.

Students at the University of Iowa had been expecting solutions to a math problem, but instead received images that appeared to be from an online sex session featuring their teacher.

University officials are looking into the incident, which is said to have left the assistant mortified as the images were shared with an online fraternity news site.

Scandal: A University of Iowa teaching assistant accidentally sent indecent images of herself to students

File error: This email sent to math students had sexually explicit pictures attached

The assistant, who has not been named, had sent an email to her Business for Math class on Tuesday evening.

In her email, she wrote: 'Hi Class, I attach the solutions for number 76 and 78,' but when students opened the attachments they saw one image of the young woman appearing to pleasure herself and another of a man, believed to be her boyfriend, masturbating.

The images, which the university has asked students to delete, appear to come from a 'cyber sex session'.

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They quickly went viral online after being shared with college news website Total Frat Move.

According to the website, which claims it has copies of the images, they 'are from a video chat that is quite sexual in nature. It appears that two people are "cyber-sexing" from different locations using video equipment'.

One student, going under the Twitter name Dru, tweeted last night: 'Welp my math teacher just sent me a video of her and her boyfriend skyping naked instead of the answers to the homework due tomorrow.' He added: 'This quiz is gunna be beyond awkward tomorrow.'

He and other students claiming to be in the woman's class also expressed surprise that she had turned up for the lesson.

Shock: Students who received the email expressed their surprise at the unexpected attachments

One student, Andrew Merschman, tweeted: 'Class with the most famous TA in University of Iowa history starts in an hour and a half. Wish me luck! Should I ask for an autograph?'

Another tweeted: 'I have the most famous TA at the University of Iowa, my 7:30am class with her this morning was really awkward though.'

According to tweets from the morning class, the whole class fell silent as she walked into the room.

However, students from a later class claimed that she failed to show up for their lesson.

Adam Mateblewski, who also reported receiving what he described as a sex tape, tweeted: 'Just had a lady come and explain what happened and that's the end of my ta and the university of iowa.'

As well as expressing shock at the images they had received, many students expressed sympathy for their teacher and said they had loved having classes with her.

Awkward: Students noted an uncomfortable silence when the assistant turned up for class

Sympathy: Some students felt sorry for their teaching assistant

An official University of Iowa statement sent to Mail Online confirmed that the teaching assistant had sent inappropriate content to her students and 'regrets her actions'.

'The individual who sent the messages has stated that it was an accident,' university spokesman Tom Moore said. 'This incident was inappropriate, and the university will look into it and take appropriate actions under our policies and procedures.'

The university appealed to students who may have received the email to delete it and not share the files.

T.A. At University Of Iowa Emails Her Own Nude Photos To Class Instead Of Homework Assignment

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Alexander -AC- H., Baltimore MD, United States, 5 hours ago

It's only a big deal because everyone thinks it is.

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William Andrews, Longview, United States, 6 hours ago

Leave the teacher alone, so what they had skype sex, big deal. Thinking about how many others do this. un-fortunately people make mistakes.

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Dr Teddy Robbear, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago

I can see what occurred, she attached solution to number 69 instead of solution to 78 and 76.

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my_lilly_rose, Right here, United States, 6 hours ago

Haahaahaa! Best comment!

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James V., Maryland, United States, 9 hours ago

Bwahahahahaaa, another IDIOT brought down by Social Media. Have fun finding another job, or any privacy the rest of your life, honey.

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Alex, Cincinnati, 10 hours ago

I'll never understand why anyone would save a skype session like that. There are better, higher quality vids with likely much better looking people available all over the internet. That being said, I hope she gets to keep her job, if she can stomach facing the class.

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BornintheUSA, Denver, United States, 11 hours ago

NSA is also monitoring Skype - thus it was already captured in real-time and shared among their 30,000 employees. Merry Christmas.

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StupidWorld, Amherst MA, United States, 11 hours ago

I hope she didn't forget solution # 69

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stumbles, ottawa, Canada, 11 hours ago

Wow, math is fun!

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Redoubt, Jacksonville, United States, 12 hours ago

I certainly hope the school doesn't blow this out of proportion. It was a mistake and the pics were received by college kids, ostensibly adults. No one wants to teach anymore, don't drum a TA out for a mistake common of the tech generation. I'm sure walking into class the next day was punishment enough.