KEY POINTS

  • Lakota School Board member Darbi Boddy accidentally led people to a porn site after making a typo in a Facebook post
  • The school board voted 4-1 to censure her, and a motion to request her resignation also passed 4-0
  • Boddy made it clear she would not resign and would not apologize for her controversial post

A board member of an Ohio school district shared a link to a website containing "inappropriate sexual content" after making a typo in a social media post.

Darbi Boddy, who is part of Butler County's Lakota School Board, included the link "scarleteen.com" in a Facebook post, criticizing the different topics she claimed were being taught in classrooms, such as critical race theory and sex education, among other things, WLWT reported.

Scarleteen describes itself as an "independent, feminist, grassroots sexuality and relationships education media and support organization and website."

However, the link that Boddy shared was initially spelled wrong, and the error reportedly took people to a different site that featured pornography.

Boddy's post prompted an emergency school board meeting Wednesday afternoon, where a resolution to censure her passed 4-1. A motion to request Boddy's resignation also passed 4-0.

“You exposed our community, including potentially children, to inappropriate sexual content. By trying to raise awareness about what to keep out of our schools, your manner of communication has placed it directly into our school community. Your conduct was fundamentally wrong and we expect you to take responsibility,” Board President Lynda O'Connor said, as per Fox 19 Now.

"Furthermore, to make a public accusation that our curriculum contains such pornographic material is deplorable," she added.

Boddy walked out of the meeting with her young daughter, a report by The Cincinnati Enquirer said.

"I will not be a part of this political ruse," Boddy said as she left during the roll call for the censure vote.

When asked if she intended to resign, the board member replied, "Absolutely not. I would never resign."

While the school board has passed the resignation motion, it is up to Boddy to follow the decision.

Boddy has since made several new statements on her Facebook account.

"I’m not going to apologize for putting these sites up and I don’t regret putting them up," she wrote Thursday in one post.

Boddy has been criticized for misrepresenting information about Lakota's curricula since taking office in January.

An online petition for the board member to be censured for her "continued disrespect and aggression" toward Lakota Local Schools Superintendent Matt Miller has reportedly gathered 1,500 signatures.

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Representation. Lakota School Board member Darbi Boddy included a site that linked to pornography in one of her posts that criticized the topics she claimed were being taught in classrooms. DeltaWorks/Pixabay