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Teacher Faces 40 Years Behind Bars ...
For Pop-Up Infested PC
Steve Bass
Wed Feb 7, 3:00 AM ET

Have you ever faced a pop-up that wouldn't go away? You try clicking it closed and another pops up in less than a nanosecond. You reboot the system, annoyed that your anti-spyware program let something slip through.

That's a hassle, sure--but chances are, your experience won't land you in jail.

A Teacher's Worst Nightmare

Julie Amero, a substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, has been convicted of impairing the morals of a child and risking injury to a minor by exposing as many as ten seventh-grade students to porn sites.

It's a short story: On October, 19, 2004, Amero was a substitute teacher for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School. A few students were crowded around a PC; some were giggling. She investigated and saw the kids looking at a barrage of graphic, hard-core pornographic pop-ups.

The prosecution contended that she had used the computer to visit porn sites.

The defense said that wasn't true and argued that the machine was infested with spyware and malware, and that opening the browser caused the computer to go into an endless loop of pop-ups leading to porn sites.

Amero maintains her innocence. She refused offers of a plea bargain and now faces an astounding
40 years in prison (her sentencing is on March 2).

CONT'D ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070207/tc_pcworld/128672 ... etc ...

[xeno439]

I downloaded some stuff from limewire and got that virus. Every 30 seconds an ad for porn or gambling would pop up even if I didn't have a browser open. She is probably innocent.

[cruisemonkey]

There's no way she'll be convicted... it's just too bad she has to go throught the stress and expense of a trial; and that the prosecuter is such an idiot!

[gsxr750r]

Yeah, she won't get convicted. Money needs to be spent to catch the people who make the content.

[ulsanchris]

she has been convicted. she is going to be sentenced now. her only hope is to appeal the verdict.

[Milwaukiedave]

That's a strange story. Hopefully she doesn't get convicted of anything.

[Smee]

Imperative word being she.

So a person gets more time for viewing porn than for molesting a child? Bravo everyone's life!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Here's a really good editorial on this case: http://www.courant.com/news/local/columnists/hc-rgreen0130.artjan30,0,6064060.column?coll=hc-utility-home

I'm sooooooooo happy I don't teach in the west.

[diablo3]

pity to see an emergency teacher caught at the wrong place at the wrong time with something that has nothing to do with her.

[Corky]

I remember this case. Some information is missing. In court, the prosecution was able to prove that she put in specific search queries that resulted in the pop ups. The pop ups came from web sites she had gone to while the students were working.

Either way, 40 years is just nuts.

[khyber]

Hasn't everyone back home been caught in a pornado before?


Besides, I think that this: