A former Georgia Tech employee who was recently charged with theft as part of the ongoing state purchasing card investigation used the computer, Web cam and headset she bought with her card for pornography, documents show.

Wanda Wilson, who worked as an administrative assistant in Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, bought a laptop computer in February 2007 from Walmart.com with her state-issued card, and stored explicit photos of herself and others on the machine.

Wilson was fired in September and was charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in March with two counts of theft by taking.

Tech officials found photos and explicit chats, along with e-mails detailing a for-profit gambling operation, after they began looking into Wilson's computer purchase in late August.

While the woman was not charged with any crime in connection with the gambling venture, it violated Tech policy because Wilson was conducting other business while working for the university.

Wilson told investigators she had inadvertently stored at home the Toshiba computer she had purchased, according to documents. However, "evidence found on the computer indicated that the computer was in operation during the time she alleged it was in storage," according to a memo sent in October from Phillip Hurd, the director of Tech's internal auditing.

Wilson also used her office computer to schedule sexual encounters in her office, according to records of the instant message chats released by Tech. The university released the documents and pornographic images in response to an open-records request.

When contacted by a reporter Wednesday, Wilson hung up the phone after her hold music played Akon's "Smack That." In an appeal she filed in September to Tech to keep her job, she said she was unfairly targeted because of the photos.

In a letter she wrote to Tech, she said, "I did not loose my job over miss-handled funded or stealing from the job, but because of the past lifestyle that I chosen .... The laptop was not used on Georgia Tech network to send and receive those pictures, which was done in the privacy of my home, on my home internet and they were stored on a personal flash drive."

Wilson lost her appeal, Tech officials said.