[happinesswithoutpeace]

Unreal.

[freebilly]

What a nightmare this teacher went through. The DA who brought charges needs to be remved from office....

[rmlew]

She should not have taken the deal. She should have gone in with a tape recorder, her lawyer, and an expert witness. She should have not only refuted the “crime” but accused the persecutors (not a typo) or neglegence, suborning perjury, and malicious prosecution. When they, huffed, puffed and threw her in jail, that tape should have then been given to the media by a defense lawyer with fortitude. The Prosecutors would have been destroyed.

[freekitty]

Most everyone knows that schools, both the lower and college level do not invest in Virus software. Why, I don’t know. When my husband was in college; we would never allow him to use a disc that came from school on our personal computer.

[sthguard]

Her mistake was “letting” the malware generate, um, non-diverse popups: otherwise, she could have just called it a lesson in tolerance and gotten Teacher of the Year for her trouble.

[antiunion person]

I've accidentally misspelled a word one occasions and the next thing I know, it's porno land gone crazy with all their pop ups. It happens all the time. The DA should be arrested for being an impostor. He's certainly not a District Attorney doing his job correctly.

[TXnMA]

While teaching an adult entrepreneuring class on the use of the WWW for small businesses, I addressed the subject of careful choice in domain names. As an example I used Wild Women Enterprises, an off-beat women's clothing store that had been started by a pair of graduates of one of our earlier entrepreneuring classes.

I pointed that their "WWW.WILDWOMEN-ENT.COM" domain name could be perilously similar to one leading to something quite unsavory. When I asked my young (female) assistant to "put the Wild Women's website up on the screen, she mistakenly left off the "-ENT" part of their domain name.

The next thing I knew, the screen was flooded with popup windows full of nude photos (and worse) -- and they were popping up faster than my panicked assistant could close them!

When she screamed and broke down in tears, I yanked the power cord out of the projector -- until I could get the proper website up on her monitor.

Needless to say, my point about judicious choice of domain name was made -- too well! BUT, if that had happened in public school, both my assistant and I could have been in big trouble!

FWIW, I do not recommend repeating the experiment; I just checked, and the first thing that happened (before I immediately killed the browser window) was that an applet began to load. I have no desire to know what would have happened (or appeared) if I had allowed that website to finish loading... :-(

[MississippiMan]

As someone who works in the forensic community, I’ve followed this story for a long time and have read about it in great detail. The incompetence and arrogance were stunning, and the case was a travesty.

MM

[CE2949BB]

impairing the morals of a child

So, uh, could I get arrested for handing out copies of The Origin of Species to sixteen year olds or is "morals" limited to sex-related acts?

This is a disturbing law. Too vague. Open to abuse.

[gargoyle]

...Rational, reasoned inquiry, or debate has been squashed out of the rule of law and the scientific method by partisan and/or individual expediency. I’ll hold my type, don’t want to get terminated from FR again, but y’all can figure out the expletives deleted!!!

[Enchante]

Sounds like Norwich PD’s “computer expert” knows less than tens of millions of ordinary business PC users. I most certainly would have avoided the kinds of bone-headed mistakes made by this “expert” and I’m no geek at all.

[Bobalu]

Is there no honor left in our judicial system?
God help us all :-(

[ccmay]

My dear mother, who had never seen porn in her life, had something like this happen to her once. Some of the lowest and filthiest kind of depravity popped up on her screen. It was immensely socking to her. Now she uses a Mac, which seems to be immune to malware, though not to mistyped URLs.

-ccm

[plenipotentiary]

Your Prosecutors are out of control. She is the 21st Century equivalent to a human sacrifice. DA’s trying to get elected find a suitable victim.

[R. Scott]

Prosecutors in the case improbably contended that Amero—who had no prior criminal record and was seven months pregnant at the time—intentionally exposed her class of seventh-graders to Internet pornography.

That's doubtful. With the Zero Tolerance Zero Thought Allowed policies little kids are suspended for just drawing a picture of a gun, suspended for having candy that looks like pills - the list is long. Once authorities - school or police - know of it they have little choice. Sex and children now are right up there with murder.
I can see how it could happen. Years ago I made the mistake of going to "whitehouse.com" instead of "whitehouse.gov". It was a porn site. Recently I was looking for a Christmas present for a girlfriend - footy pajamas. It's amazing how many porn sites are keyed to innocent things, and some have non-porn sounding names. I have a good popup blocker, and most are stopped but sometimes entire sites come up in rapid succession. Trying to delete them only makes it worse. I have to shut down the computer with the on/off, reboot, do a disk cleanup and reboot again.

[Mark was here]

This was the first time the kids ever saw any porn, so of course it was traumatic for them, and now they will all grow up to be sex offenders.

[Elle Bee]

the solution is to limit a prosecutors immunity

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[piytar]

Has anything happened to any of the nitwits involved in this witch hunt?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

It’s not “technical ignorance of the police and prosecutors”
It’s an “easy conviction” of a defenseless White woman.

[RochesterFan]

The Wired article reporting her grant of a new trial nicely summarized the prosecution's blunders.