Teacher faces jail time for porn pop-ups

Justin Meisse

If you thought the Boston "bomb" scare was bad, wait until you get a load of this:
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she was convicted! what the fuck!?

There should be a law that requires anyone serving Jury duty for a trial involving computers to take a computer competency test.

Thegodzero

WTF! i remember when they first started adding in that no porn shit on the schools computers back in middle school. You could still look at porn, it just made a little harder to do it but if you did manage to do it the computer was over run with porn popups in seconds. Now days with all the new shit in IE and firefox and shit you dont even have to wory about pop ups. Maybe she had never seen popups like that, because she wasnt a perv like the teacher whos computer it was?

Slum

More info on the full story.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11440
“ This was a Windows 98 SE machine with IE 5 and an expired antivirus subscription. It hadn't been update since August, and there was no anti-spyware, no pop-up protection, no firewall and no content filters. Regardless of whatever happened, this machine was a machine that should not have been on the Internet. ”

IronHawk

I remember reading this story somewhere else as well. That teacher got screwed.

Joseph Silverman

The version I read quoted a juror saying he felt she should have been convicted due to her gross incompetence in the situation. Said he expected at least she could turn off the monitor or 'throw a coat over it' or something.

Seemed valid enough.

KeyserSoze

I say they should execute her. Come on people, we have capital punishment in this country for a reason... let's use it!

Thegodzero

suprore those are the things you think about after the fact. At the time I'm pretty sure she was freaking out and doing what any rational person would do keep trying to close out all the windows so that the kids don't see anything. The more she clicked the more came up and the more flustered she must have gotten.

Hell at this i wouldn't even have remembered what to do when something like that happens because i don't get popups ever. Its just not something i think about, so its not something i would remember at that time how to fix.

Toomas

She propably ends up getting millions out of this mess so no worries.
Atleast from what i seen the US Supreme Court still is pretty much sane compared to the small ones.

Mark Dygert

Power buttons are wonderful things...

What a dumbass, even a complete moron knows you can shut the monitor off or just yank the plug. She still doesn't deserve what is happening.

Since the rules of reality no longer apply I would like to be crowned king of the universe.

Justin Meisse

I've dealt with the clueless public for going on 7 years now, some of these people are completely terrified of their computer, the computer is some sort of voodoo machine covered in buttons with wires all over the place.

hawken

most computers these days don't turn off even if you hit the power button.

that teach got screwed and it's a sad sad day for logic and rational. Ban christians and break out the porn.

swampbug

Punish all the kids who were looking at the porn. Havent they been taught that porn is naughty!.. shame on them.

Geezus

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Amero now faces up to 40 years of jail time for pornographic pop-ups...

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40 years!!? For some nekkid chesticles?! That's ridiculous. Granted, yeah...she should have had enough sense to shut the monitor off or unplugged the machine. Loss of her job maybe, but jail time? And what's with this four counts of "risking injury to a child"? Since when does a little nipplage "injure" a middle school student? Remind me to never settle down in Connecticut.

snap.crackle.pop

Im pretty sure that one of her student may have wonder into porn/warez sites just before she used the computer, it could be simple as that.

Tulkamir

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Ban christians and break out the porn.

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This quote needs to be everywhere!

Asherr

she should've just molested the kids. would have gotten her a lighter sentence.

Mark Dygert

I think she happened into the legal system when they spun the giant wheel of chance and it just so happened to land on 40 year sentences for everyone being tried that day.

Pedro Amorim

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she should've just molested the kids. would have gotten her a lighter sentence.

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indeed..
jeez.
probably those dudes that get caught on dateline msnbc get a lighter conviction

aesir

This is what happens when EVERY FUCKING YEAR people vote for there to be harsher sentencing for sex-offenders.

Vitor

I say... hang her!!!!

As a kid once myself i guess just 2 options: or the kids looked to it and didn't get it, or they get it cause they already search on their home internet for it...

"Sure, there's no questioning that even the most novice of users could have turned off the monitor or unplugged the computer"
I wouldn't be that sure of that...

jgarland

Middle school kids? OH NOES!11 Now they've seen porn in school instead of on their own computers while furiously masturbating to it! Their lives are ruined!

Give me a break. I'm willing to bet half the little buggers have seen stuff twice as bad as whatever was in the pop-ups.

Thegodzero

middle school kids would have when she walked out for a sec searched for porn just to screw with her. I bet in the end they find out that it was just the students that opened up the first porn site then closed it when she came in so to make it look like it was her surfing that did it.