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Married Florida data scientist axed for refusing to alter COVID-19 stats was fired from university job
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ... for having affair with a student and charged with stalking, threatening him with revenge porn, writing a 342-page manifesto on their sex life
- Rebekah Jones led a team of Florida Department of Health scientists and public health officers to create and design a comprehensive COVID-19 dashboard
- The 30-year-old said in a May 5 email that she was fired for refusing to 'manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen'
- But Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that Jones was canned because of insubordination and called her 'disruptive’
- DailyMail.com can reveal that she was fired in 2017 from Florida State University when she was a PhD student and instructor for having an affair with her student
- Jones was charged with three counts of cyberstalking her student Garrett Sweeterman, then 21, who filed a restraining order against her
- She allegedly created a 'revenge porn' website called SurvivingGarrett and sent the link to online boards focusing on women's issues and the #metoo movement
- Jones posted at least 60 pages of a 342-page manifesto with a narrative of the affair with Sweeterman, including screen grabs of sexts between the two
- She claims in the essay that the fling with Sweeterman led to a pregnancy. She gave birth to a little girl in mid-2018 and shares an eight-year-old son with her husband
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-27 |
