Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Liriano, a Bronx teacher was caught soliciting seedy hookups and threesomes on Craigslist using her school email.
The scandalous exchanges emerged during legal discovery after she became embroiled in a race row over the teaching of black history.
The discovery led Liriano to resign from her role as an English teacher.
Liriano, 50, who was married at the time, sent at least eight racy emails between December 2016 and September 2017, according to a probe launched by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools.
‘Voluptuous sexy AA female looking for dominant cpl — w4mw,’ she titled one of the messages.
The mom added in one of her seductive emails that she was seeking a threesome, unaware her school email could later track her conversations.
‘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??’ one of the messages read.
‘Hello my name is Mercedes aka Mercy. Here are some pictures of me. Hope to hear from you soon,’ she said in further email threads.
‘Indecent photographs were exchanged, and one of the emails contained pictures of a woman’s vagina and a woman’s buttocks,’ the investigation added.
The emails began at roughly the same time school principal Patricia Catania took over at the Bronx elementary.
Liriano solicited sex in at least eight emails from December 2016 to September 2017, according to the SCI report.
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.
After being asked why her students were working on a project for Black History Month, Liriano alleges that she was told by the principal: ‘You’re an ELA teacher, you don’t teach social studies.’
According to a deposition that was filed following the spat, the principal said Liriano flew off the handle after being ordered to avoid the subject.
According to a deposition that was filed following the spat, the principal said Liriano flew off the handle after being ordered to avoid the subject.
‘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.
After being fired over the contentious allegation, Catania said she was the victim of a ‘smear’ campaign orchestrated by Liriano.
The duo launched dueling lawsuits against each other over the race row, leading to the discovery of Liriano’s raunchy hookup requests as their legal teams investigated the educators during the discovery process, according to the SCI report.
Her sordid exchanges led her to resign in September 2021, and the SCI recommended the Department of Education place a ‘problem code’ in her file that could stop her from landing a role as a teacher in the future.
Just five months after she lost her job in the Bronx school, her husband of 15-years died and was discovered in bed by Liriano’s twin daughters, according to a GoFundMe page she launched at the time.
