A 35-year-old man teaching at an international school in Malaysia has become vicitm to cyber scandals initiated by his ex-girlfriend. It seems this break-up did not go so well.
According to Today, Canadian teacher Lee David Clayworth has been cyber-stalked and harassed through all of his internet media outlets for two and a half years by his ex-girlfriend Lee Ching Yan, who was 29 when they met. Clayworth and Yan began dating in the middle of 2010. However, Clayworth commented that the relationship "wasn't the healthiest" at times and ended the relationship in December of the same year. Unfortunately, the break-up did not go so well with the other party.
Clayworth is claiming that his career has been ruined by the slander and libel circulating the worldwide internet, such as emails stating he has had promiscuous relationships with his students, postings of naked pictures of him, labeling him as a pedophile all over the internet. The Daily Mail UK documents that he has been applying for positions since the beginning of this year and has not received any positive responses. Clayworth believes this as the result of all of illicit postings online. Yan obtained all of his information when she broke into his living quarters and stole his laptop with personal photos and information, external drive, teaching portfolio documents and other personal belongings.
Clayworth commented in the Today article that shortly after the break-up, "this online onslaught started. My email account was hacked into, my Skype account was hacked into. Emails started coming from my account ... claiming that I'm having sex with underage students."
Clayworth had attempted to take her to court for defamation of character, however, she had fleed the country since then. She had never gone to prison, and Clayworth mentioned that since then, "things kept steamrolling on and on." Clayworth's teaching contract expired and returned back to Canada, where he is finding employment diffcult since the incident.
The aftereffects of the break-up and the eternal archival system of the internet, however, will continue to weigh him down. The postings will never go away, but his story deserves to be told all fully.
One of the websites defaming Clayworth can be found here at LiarsCheatersRUs.com.