Teacher faces 40 years for porn in classroom, blames adware

A 40-year-old substitute teacher faces up to 40 years in prison after
being convicted of exposing children to pornography on a computer at
the Connecticut middle school where she taught.

I suppose it's remotely possible the charges are
valid. But the story doesn't add up. It seems far more plausible from
the accounts I'm reading that this woman, who had no prior criminal
record and a clean teaching history, was using an insecure edition of
Internet Explorer and was hit with an adware infestation she didn't
know how to deal with.

Some reports indicate the teachers at this school were
prohibited by policy from turning off school computers, which would
answer the "why didn't she just shut down the PC?" questions. Amero
testified that she told four other teachers and the school's assistant
principal about the popup problem, and nobody responded with help. The
school's internet filter license had expired, and the detective in the
investigation was quoted in one local paper's account as saying "there
was no search made for adware, which can generate pop-up
advertisements". So if that's true, and the arguments of the defense
are valid -- wow, 40 years in jail for using a lame browser? Insane.
That's more time than some convicted murderers get.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/teacher_faces_40_yea.html

the likes of Bush and Blair get away with massmurder,but a teacher faces 40 yrs for bein not a techie.