Gee, maybe she wasn't particularly computer savvy??State Prosecutor David Smith said he wondered why Julie Amero didn't just pull the plug on her classroom computer.
The six-person jury Friday may have been wondering the same thing when they convicted Amero, 40, of Windham of four counts of risk of injury to a minor, or impairing the morals of a child. It took them less than two hours to decide the verdict. She faces a sentence of up to 40 years in prison.
Oct. 19, 2004, while substituting for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School, Amero claimed she could not control the graphic images appearing in an endless cycle on her computer.
"The pop-ups never went away," Amero testified. "They were continuous."
Wow, what a terrible verdict. I'm fairly computer savvy and had a huge amount of trouble with a spyware/malware attack last year. I don't see how anyone familiar with the Internet and browsing could possibly convict her on these facts. You'd have to believe that she purposely chose to share these sites with her students and then stupidly ran around trying to find other teachers who could put a stop to the pop-ups.
Here's hoping her appeal goes well.
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