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Bizarro case from Connecticut. A substitute teacher, Julie Amero, has been convicted<\/em> of four counts of “risking injury to a child” for a popup atttack on the classroom PC that had X-rated images streaming across the monitor. Despite plentiful evidence (some of it blocked on a technicality) that the machine was infected, that the district had minimal (and outdated) safeguards against such things, and the sub asked for help but got none, she’s potentially facing 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Unbelievable. These two<\/a> articles<\/a> have all the gory, outrageous details.<\/p>\n

Now, having said that (and trusting that there will be appeals of the conviction, regardless), and acknowledging that the school district (and its IT group) were incompetent and the prosecutor’s office vindictive and insane …<\/p>\n

I just don’t completely buy Amero’s story.<\/p>\n

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  1. \nShe didn’t know how to turn off a computer? Or even a monitor? She knows how to e-mail her husband, or close a window, but not those things? I don’t believe it. I do believe that she had had drilled into her by permanent teachers to never touch their computers without instructions, and that she’d been told not to logoff the system that was in the class. But her level of incompetence, as described, is a bit beyond belief.<\/li>\n
  2. \nI will accept that she didn’t have a jacket to throw over the monitor, but, really — over the course of a minute or two, if not the hours that seem to be involved, she couldn’t have found anything other than (unsuccessfully) her body to block the monitor? A book? A piece of paper? A student’s sweater or backpack? She couldn’t turn around the monitor, or even turn it face down? Give me a break. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    None of this warrants a conviction. I don’t believe she acted in an improper fashion to have those popups start streaming across her system. But some of the excuses actually given strain my credulity, and probably didn’t help her credibility before the jury that convicted her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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