If you haven't read about the case of Julie Amero, the substitute teacher in Connecticut who was recently convicted of surfing porn sites in her classroom on a school computer and allowing students to see it, there's a good precis of the story here:
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5793 Amero is to be sentenced on March 2 and could get 40 years. In fact, the unprotected computer had been infected with malware, and Amero, a computer novice, had no control over it and had no idea how to stop the endless series of porno pop-ups that suddenly began appearing. She'd been instructed never to turn the computer off. She asked for help from the computer teacher and reported the incident to the principal's office; in each case she was told not to worry about it. Later a parent of one of the students who had glimpsed the pop-ups complained, and she was charged with four counts of felony injury to a minor. The prosecutor in her trial was technologically illiterate, as was the judge, who did not allow an expert witness to explain that Amero had nothing to do with the porn. The jury didn't know any better either, and convicted her. As a result of this horrendous travesty of justice, Amero has lost her job and her reputation and has had a miscarriage; she faces huge legal bills and a possible 40 years of jail time. A legal defense fund for Amero has been established; you can contribute via PayPal: http://julieamer.blogspot.com/2007/02/contribute-to-julie.html There's lots of detailed information about this case available on the Web: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=julie+amero
