The teenage girl at the heart of the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal has revealed her face for the first time, a year after DailyMail.com revealed the shamed politician's lewd messages to her.

Now 16, she spoke to Inside Edition this week as Weiner awaits sentencing for transferring obscene material to a minor, a crime he admitted in May. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years but Weiner will not spend more than 27 months in jail as part of his plea deal.

The girl is not being named because she is still a minor but her father gave permission for her face to be shown. When she revealed their relationship to DailyMail.com last year, they were not ready for her to be pictured.

She was 15 when she struck up an online and text relationship with Weiner in January 2016.

It sparked a months-long exchange between them which included graphic messages and topless photographs of the 53-year-old former New York congressman.

In her interview this week, the teenager said she was 'disgusted' by the messages she received from Weiner who, at the time, was still living with wife Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides.

She said last year that their relationship with consensual and begged her father not to press charges against him but took part in her sit-down interview with DailyMail.com in the hope that it would stop him from sexting underage girls.

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The girl who exchanges sexts with Anthony Weiner revealed her face for the first time on Friday. She is not being named because she is still a minor but her father gave permission for her face to be shown

The teenage girl first made contact with him through a private Twitter message where she told him she was a fan in January 2016.

She was aware the previous sexting relationships which torpedoed his political career and but said she wanted to see if he would take the bait given Clinton's presidential bid.

'I knew that Hillary Clinton would be running for president in the year 2016 and I wanted to see if Anthony was still up to the same antics,' she said in her Inside Edition interview.

After speaking briefly on Twitter, she and Weiner soon began exchanging text messages and his input quickly turned sexual.

'I knew it was going downhill and really fast,' she said.

For months afterwards, they exchanged sexually graphic text messages, spoke over several social media platforms and he sent her photographs of himself in various states of undress, sometimes posing with his son.

One of the topless photographs the former congressman sent the girl in 2016 that was exposed by DailyMail.com last year. The girl said she was 'disgusted' by his graphic texts and selfies

When the girl approached DailyMail.com last year with her father's permission, they were not ready for her face to be shown. Her photograph was published and obscured. Now, we can share the year-old images she allowed us to take (above)

Weiner sent the girls photographs of himself in a swimming pool and sent crude messages. She told him she was deleting their exchange and affectionately called him 'babe'

Weiner was aware the girl was underage at the time. They exchanged messages in which she described having to avoid her parents' detecting their affair

The pair spoke over a range of social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook

The girl reciprocated, calling him 'babe' and sending provocative texts and pictures.

She promised him she was deleting their correspondence but often made reference to her parents and described her desire to conceal their messages from them.

Among descriptions of his 'hard' genitals were shirtless photographs of the 53-year-old sitting next to his son.

In others, he described wanting to have sex with her so roughly that it would make her 'go leak and limp'.

'I would b**t that tight p***y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week,' he said.

Her feelings changed when Weiner began sending her photographs of himself curled up with his then four-year-old son, she said.

'I was disgusted. That's part of the reason I came forward.'

Last year, her father said he had allowed her to share the story to prevent Weiner from contacting other girls.

In one of his most explicit messages, Weiner described wanting to 'b**st that tight p***y so hard and often' the girl would 'leak and limp for a week'

Another of the inappropriate images Weiner sent showed him curled up with his then four-year-old son

In September last year, the girl recounted their relationship in full detail (above). She told DailyMail.com that she was interested in politics and curious about him

'If there's anybody out there that has a similar story that they can come forward, maybe use my daughter's example to have the courage to come forward,' he said.

The pair engaged in Skype sessions where they encouraged one another to take their clothes off.

Weiner told her to touch herself and say his name at the same time, she said, and sometimes spoke to her when his son was downstairs in the bathtub.

'When we would Skype, he would tell me that he was very lonely and that it had been a year since he and his wife [Huma] had sex, and that she really didn't pay him any attention,' said the girl.

'We would talk, just chatting for about 30 minutes and it would lead to more sexual things…asking me to undress…he'd comment on my body. He asked me about masturbation, and that kind of thing,' she said last year.

He also asked her to dress up as a schoolgirl in plaid skirts and described his 'rape fantasies'.

'It would just be him showing up at my house when my dad was out of town and just start undressing me, being forceful, asking me if I want to be dominated, strange questions,' she said, describing them.

The 53-year-old was pictured taking his son Jordan to school with his estranged wife Huma Abedin in Manhattan on Friday

Weiner will be sentenced next month. His sentencing was due to take place today but it pleaded with a judge to push it back so that he could take his son to school

Weiner was arrested by FBI agents in May. He admitted one count of transmission of obscene material later that month, weeping in court as he entered his guilty plea.

'I have a sickness but I do not have an excuse,' he said. The judge told him that he would have to register as a sex offender.

Weiner pleaded guilty to transmission of obscene material to a minor in May (above)

The shamed New Yorker was due to be sentenced on Friday September 8 but he pleaded with the judge to push the date back so that he could take his son to his first day of kindergarten.

The pair walked hand-in-hand towards the $42,000-a-year school in downtown Manhattan on Friday.

Weiner did not go with him the whole way.

New York State law dictates that some sex offenders cannot go within 1,000 ft of schools.

The scandal rocked the presidential campaign and has been blamed for thwarting Clinton's White House chances.

Weeks before the election, the FBI re-opened its investigation into her use of a private email server - which is widely pinpointed as Clinton's downfall - because of information it gleaned from the Weiner sexting scandal.

Huma had announced their separations weeks before the scandal broke, citing another one of his sexting affairs as the reason for their split.

Weiner apologized at the time, saying the messages were proof of his 'terrible judgement'.

Investigators looked at Huma's laptop as part of their probe into her husband's affair. It crossed over into a separate FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server

'I have repeatedly demonstrated terrible judgement about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent.

'I am filled with regret and heartbroken for those I have hurt,' he said.

After the scandal was exposed, a criminal investigation was launched which extended to his wife's laptop.

The scandal prompted former FBI Director James Comey to reopen the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails on October 28, a bombshell some say cost her the election

Because detectives believed Huma had used the same device to receive classified information from Clinton's private email server when she was Secretary of State, it crossed over into the previously closed probe into the presidential candidate's practices.

James Comey, the FBI Director at the time, decided to reopen his investigation into Clinton's emails in light of the cross-over and he announced the decision in a letter to congress that was written on October 28 - less than two weeks before polls opened.

It plummeted Clinton's popularity and she has blamed the move for her sensational election defeat ever since.

The girl's Inside Edition will be shown in full on Monday September 11.