Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
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> Substitute Teacher Faces Jail Time Over Spyware
>
> A 40-year-old former substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing
> prison time following her conviction for endangering students by
> exposing them to ****ographic material displayed on a classroom
> computer.
>
> Local prosecutors charged that the teacher was caught red-handed
> surfing for **** in the presence of seventh graders. The defense
> claimed the graphic images were pop-up ads generated by spyware
> already present on the computer prior to the teacher's arrival. The
> jury sided with the prosecution and convicted her of four counts of
> endangering a child, a crime that brings a punishment of up to 10
> years per count. She is due to be sentenced on March 2.
>
> I had a chance this week to speak with the accused, Windham, Conn.,
> resident Julie Amero. Amero described herself as the kind of person
> who can hardly find the power button on a computer, saying she often
> relies on written instructions from her husband explaining how to
> access e-mail, sign into instant messaging accounts and other
> relatively simple tasks.
>
> On the morning of Oct 19, 2004, Amero said she re****ted for duty at a
> seventh grade classroom at Kelly Middle School in Norwich, Conn. After
> stepping out into the hall for a moment, Amero returned to find two
> students hovering over the computer at the teacher's desk. As
> sup****ted by an analysis of her computer during the court
> proceedings, the site the children were looking at was a seemingly
> innocuous hairstyling site called "new-hair-styles.com." Amero said
> that shortly thereafter, she noticed a series of new Web browser
> windows opening up displaying ****ographic images, and that no matter
> how quickly she closed each one out, another would pop up in its
> place.
>
> "I went back to computer and found a bunch of pop-ups," Amero said.
> "They wouldn't go away. I mean, some of the sites stayed on there no
> matter how many times I clicked the red X, and others would just pop
> back up."
>
> Amero said she panicked and ran down the hall to the teacher's lounge
> to ask for help. "I dared not turn the the computer off. The teacher
> had asked me not to sign him out" of the computer, she recalled.
> Amero said none of the teachers in the lounge moved to help her, and
> that another teacher later told her to ignore the ads, that they were
> a common annoyance. Later on, prosecutors would ask why she hadn't
> just thrown a coat or a sweater over monitor. On that day Amero
> hadn't worn either.
>
> Several children told their parents about the incident, who in turn
> demanded answers from the school's principal. Three days later, school
> administrators told Amero she was not welcome back. Not long after
> that, local police arrested her on charges of risking injury to
> several students.
>
> (snip)
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