I agree that it is interesting that she was a substitute teacher for the school, but simply pointing out the fact that the links were 'highlighted' proves nothing. I (and God knows how many other Slashdotters) could write a piece of javascript or even HTML code that redirects you to a completely different site without your intention and then will show up in your history. And God forbid, the link is purple! ooh, aah, guilty I say!

Sorry, but that just should not cut it in an American court system. Either her lawyer is an idiot and didn't even investigate that possibility or the jury thought it was "magic". and besides, even if she did look at porn on a school computer (which I would not agree with doing) and through her ignorance of spyware was subjected to popups, should she get 40 YEARS in prison for that?! What if you were watching porn and because you forgot to run Ad-Aware this one time, your son or daughter saw one image. Should you go to prison for decades and then leave them without a father?