Sentencing in Connecticut teacher “porn or spyware” case pushed back
The former Connecticut substitute middle-school teacher who faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of exposing her students to pop-up pornography has had her scheduled Friday sentencing pushed back to April 26. Norwich Superior Court Judge Hillary Strackbein approved the continuation, requested by the state, according to two Connecticut daily newspapers. No reason was filed with the court. Meanwhile, the information security community has rallied behind Amero, 40, who was convicted on four counts of risk of injury to a minor. In 2004, authorities said, Amero subjected seventh-grade students at Kelly Middle School in Norwich to graphic images. Amero – who considers herself a poor computer user – has contended the images kept popping up and couldn’t be clicked off, the result of adware and spyware installed on the class computer, which was running expired anti-spyware solutions and the Windows 98 operating system.