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TWO things....

One. Either they were at church, as was the young man in question, or they weren't. It doesn't say that most of the family was, and he wasn't. Since he's still locked up, I'm going to "guess" that most of the family was away from the house, and he was there alone.

Two. It's often the case that there's not enough audit data left behind to prove the suggestion that it was an external intrusion (a "hack"). Unless the accused gets the "right" lawyer, an uninformed judge, or jury can and will convict on "fairy tales" conjured up from what Hollywood tells our brainless nation about information security.

But the kid is being denied due process, so these questions are going to be difficult to answer at best right now, much less present to the justice system.

If half of what the mom says is true, then I'm guess that they had a poorly secured WAP (Wireless Access Point). My neighbor left his unsecured and I called him to tell him and he gave me permission to "fix" it for him. Before securing it properly, I was able to do some quite advanced things that would have GREATLY aided an intruder in doing some very malicious things that would have appeared as though it originated at their residence, when in fact I was a full two doors down...which is 200 yards in this instance. Bear in mind that since I "owned" the WAP, I would have certainly cleared it's logs and disabled them completely afterwards, had I been up to no good.

I had a WAP signed out from work for home use, and over an 8 month period, I detected three unsuccessful unauthorized usage attempts. Nobody was within sight on our road and it's a very "sparse" neighborhood, so I can only suppose it was a neighbor, and was possibly in error.

The kid needs to see his lawyer...NOW.