Every once in a while there will be a trial verdict read that makes no sense. You had that with Roe vs. Wade, where it made it legal to murder unborn babies. There are all these technicalities when it comes to court proceedings. Some of them help the criminals get off the hook. It sickens me when that happens. This story is a bit behind, but it brings me to my main subject. That is the case against Mrs. Julie Amero, the substitute teacher accused, convicted, and about to be sentenced for displaying porn for all the kiddies in the middle school class to see. The court proceedings that she was involved in were more of a circus than the Anna Nicole Smith dispute. First of all, she did the right thing by alerting the principal of what had happened. Then, he remembered that he hadn't payed the bill for the security software that blocks these sort of problems. So he pays the bill after the lapse in protection. Then he testifies against the substitute teacher saying something to the effect of, "we have had no other problems before or after this incident." I wonder why. The school system that Mrs. Amero worked for just hung her out to dry to cover their own tracks. The judge didn't let any computer experts in to speak on behalf of the defendant either. If you ask me, it looks like the prosecutor, the judge, and the entire school board are big buddies and were helping each other get out of this mess. This is a mockery of what the justice system is actually for. Someone should be held responsible. It was the principal of the schools fault for forgetting to pay the renewal fee to keep the security software up-to-date. He should be relieved of his position. The substitute had only gone to www.crayola.com and some of the kids to a hair fashion website a few minutes before this happened. As the substitute began to proceed teaching, the popups started occurring on their own. She tried closing the windows individually, but they opened as fast as she could close them. One juror said that she could have unplugged the computer or thrown her coat over the monitor. Mrs. Amero was under strict orders to not turn off the computer and was always told that not shutting a computer down the right way could damage it. "Throw your coat over the [CRT] monitor," you say? This would have been a fire hazard and could have been quite dangerous depending on the material of the coat. The logical thing that she should have done was to simply switch the monitor off. However, even my mother asks me if it's okay to switch the monitor off while the computer is running. Someone who isn't familiar with computers may think that hitting any "off" switch could mess something up if the computer has not been properly shut down. This prosecutor is making it seem like this substitute teacher knowingly went to these pornographic websites in front of the class. Imagine doing that from across the room without even touching the computer. This is a travesty and will go down as one of the stupidest mistakes in the history of our so-called justice system. Story link below:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2007-02-14-teacher-porn_x.htm
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