Teacher is convicted of showing porn to 7th graders

[jvrlopez]

Good lord.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17134607...15829?GT1=9033

The women is saying that they were the result of spyware pop ups, but the jury thought otherwise.

I really see no reason for her to do such a thing and I think the jury just got sweet talked into a guilty verdict on a subject they probably know little about.

As for a spybot/adaware scan?

“What is extraordinary is the prosecution admitted there was no search made for spyware — an incredible blunder akin to not checking for fingerprints at a crime scene,” Alex Eckelberry, president of a Florida software company, wrote recently in the local newspaper. “When a pop-up occurs on a computer, it will get shown as a visited Web site, and no ‘physical click’ is necessary.”

I remember in 7th grade, we were huddled around the computer looking for sites related to the subject at hand and we too got porn pop ups. I'd say its nothing uncanny and to convict a teacher of a crime that has the potential of 40 years imprisonment is a little extreme.

[Magus]

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WOW.

I'd reward her not imprison her. |:3

[irate giraffe]

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"Amero says she chased the students away and started class. But later, she says, pornographic images began popping up on the computer screen by themselves. She says she tried to click the images off, but they kept returning, and she was under strict orders not to shut the computer off.

“I did everything I possibly could to keep them from seeing anything,” she says"


Wait, she didn't know she could just turn the screen off? Yeah, give her the maximum sentence for ignorance of the twentieth century.

[Funk]

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If she goes to prison all of the geeks should hack her out.

[The Toecutter]

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That's our court system for you. Guilty until proven innocent, only this time there wasn't much of an effort made to prove her innocent...

Any reasonable court would have checked the computer for said spyware, or alternatively, dismissed the case altogether.

[irate giraffe]

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"Principal Scott Fain said the computer lacked the latest firewall protection because a vendor’s bill had gone unpaid. “I was shocked to see what made it through,” he said."

Really, if anyone the school should be at fault. They are just black-sheeping a substitute to save their own hides.

[jvrlopez]

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Thats exactly why they're denying it has ever happened before.

Lets be honest...would you actually report such a thing if theres such high stakes? Don't think so.

[irate giraffe]

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I'll be honest, and no I wouldn't. The stakes are too high.

[Jamos]

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What? If anything she should be getting the "Teacher of the Year Award!"

Seriously, though, this is ****ed up. Its not like she has power over pop ups.

[jvrlopez]

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**** IT, LETS BUST HER OUT

[Funk]

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The Pornshank Redemption

[Red Dragon]

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I remember a case where a teenager had "child pornography" on his computer, 5-7 years later after being convicted they let him off because of this kind of stuff ACTUALLY HAPPENS. I doubt that kid can ever be accepted again.

[Caciss]

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****s dumb

~fin

[Doyleman]

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hm.....

I find nothing really saying that she was looking at porn...

man we have a messed up system.

[Wavelength]

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Seems like there was no intent there, and let's be honest, no harm done, either. It seems like her actions did NOT result in the porn being shown, but even if her actions unwittingly resulted in that, why give her anything more than a repremand? People are given less time for manslaughter; even murder.

I really hope they give her nothing more than a slap on the wrist--like a $500 fine and a three-month ban from schools, or something--or take it to a higher court and acquit her outright.