Dallas teacher fired for porn past tries to reclaim job, says she endured sex slavery

A Dallas ISD teacher who was fired for working in the porn industry when she was younger is appealing to keep her teaching job.

Resa Woodward, 38, said she participated in the industry more than a decade ago because she was in an abusive relationship with a controlling man. She said he pressured her into sex slavery, according to the Dallas Morning News.

She said he was physically and emotionally abusive. Woodward divorced him when she was just 19 years sold.

In an interview with WFAA, she describes her former self as "young, naïve, easily controlled. Very book smart, street stupid."

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"Only a woman who has been through such a horrifying experience could fully understand, but I'm asking you to understand and re-consider the terrible charges being brought against me, the victim of an abusive past," she told the Dallas Morning News.

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She said he booked her for shoots for a little more than one year. Woodward has been a teacher for 15 years now, she said, and has been successful. "This year I reached the top status...exemplary," she explained.

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Nonetheless, administrators at Young Women's STEAM Academy at Balch Springs Middle School fired her when the films came to light. An anonymous call to the school revealed her past.

She's now requesting the Texas Education Agency reconsider her termination.

"Please tell me this is not the end," she wrote to the the TEA. "Do not penalize me for a dark saga in my youth that was not of my making."

A TEA spokesperson said that the agency is currently reviewing her appeal.