A former Villanova student convicted of sharing explicit photos of women online allegedly targeted another woman – a university professor who fears she may never be able to remove all the images from the internet. Tyler John Jones, a 32-year-old carpenter from Philadelphia, secretly stole risqué and nude pictures off the phone of the professor, a friend of his ex-girlfriend, according to a multimillion-dollar New Jersey federal lawsuit filed on Friday.
Jones spent two years posting these snaps online, apparently for the “thrill,” according to the plaintiff’s attorney and the suit. The plaintiff, identified only as J.G. of Gloucester County, NJ, in court papers, told The Post on Friday, “I feel like a part of my identity has been taken from me.” J.G., aged 28, first met Jones in April 2022 through friend Tsai Islam, who was dating Jones at the time.
The plaintiff discovered in December 2023 that Jones had been sharing photos online of her “in her underwear or partially or completely naked,” according to the court papers. He started message groups under the name “University Professor Exposed” and shared J.G.’s photos with them on apps such as Discord and Telegram, the filing alleges.
J.G. discovered the situation when a friend told her someone on an anonymous Instagram account had sent photos of J.G. and wrote, “her face is cute, her body is better… hard to not want more? …Good…Another? …Another?” The lawsuit claims that within two days, she filed a police report and hired a lawyer.
Law enforcement agencies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania did not return Post requests for comment to confirm the existence of criminal probes in the two states. Jones allegedly asked to borrow J.G.’s phone, took a photo with his own phone of the images on her device, and Airdropped the images between devices.
Even after confronting Jones, he continued to post the photos of J.G., often daily, according to the suit. Islam, who dated Jones for two years until they discovered what he had done to their friend, said Jones had previously told them about his prior conviction. But Islam said Jones assured them that as a new father, he’d changed and matured and wouldn’t do it again.
Jones had pleaded guilty in 2013 to secretly taking photos of three women – including a minor 17-year-old. He hid an iPhone in the bathroom of his home in Switzerland, Pa., at the time to capture the women changing, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Jones then went back to his dorm room and posted the images to porn sites, CBS News reported.
J.G.’s “life has been devastated by defendant’s intrusion and callous disregard for her privacy,” her new filing claims. She now has difficulty sleeping, anxious that photos of her are being posted anew online, and she’s been forced to start taking prescription medication “to ease the anxiety and paranoia” that resulted from the online attacks.
J.G.’s attorney, Daniel Szalkiewicz, said he doesn’t think his client will “ever feel a sense of justice … until he faces what he’s done.” Jones did not return Post requests for comment on Friday.
