Former Ocean City AD Indicted for Allegedly Hacking Superintendent's Email

Ocean City, NJ -- A former Ocean City High School Athletic Director has been indicted for allegedly accessing the email account of the school district’s superintendent, Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor said on Tuesday.

Christine Lentz, 53, of Woodbine, was indicted by a grand jury for second-degree official misconduct, third-degree computer criminal activity and third-degree theft.

She allegedly accessed the school district email account of Ocean City Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kathleen Taylor without prior authorization between April 1 and June 1 of last year.

Lentz has filed a $2 million tort claim notice alleging that she was wrongfully terminated by the school district, and that Taylor objected to her sexual orientation.

Lentz served as Ocean City Athletic Director for seven years, beginning in 2008. She resigned last summer, initially citing health reasons, but later claiming she was forced to resign, and that she faced a pattern of discrimination after school district officials learned she was in a same-sex marriage in the summer of 2013.

Lentz is a former girls basketball coach at the school, earning 217 wins, the 11th most in Cape-Atlantic League history.