One of the interesting thing about writing a public blog, is the comments are often more informative than the original posts. In this case, comments were made about an incident that was maybe covered up during the Knopp administration. One wonders if they were true or not. As it so happens, documentation tends to sort of verify the substance of the allegation. Below you’ll find a link to the incident report filed with the Weed and Seed program. The names of the family involved has been redacted.
So where were the local papers on this story? Why didn’t they write about it?
I’ve got some questions about the incident.
Did the family go to the police? Did the police investigate? Was this document part of the vast amount of documents then mayor Alex Knopp left unread? Was the kid reassigned? Who talked to the family? Did the computer involved get removed before a forensic examination was performed? Was there political pressure to bury this incident and who by?
The story resurfaces of course, because Alex Knopp is resurfacing as a candidate for mayor. And politics is a muddy business indeed. Bringing things into the open however, changes the landscape a bit. You can only by time by covering things up, but eventually the cover up becomes the scandal.
What I really want to know is how on the one hand substitute teacher Julie Amero gets convicted of showing porn to minors in one part of the state, and nothing happens when a more blatant incident happens here in Norwalk? How is a pop up ad more prosecutable than a a series of web videos?
Questions beget questions.
Update: From the Courant:
Amid a flurry of meetings and growing pressure on the state’s attorney’s office, the sentencing of convicted teacher Julie Amero has been postponed until April 26.
No reason for the delay was filed with the clerk at Norwich Superior Court. State’s Attorney Michael Regan, who is now involved in the case, declined to comment. Amero’s lawyers also did not return calls for comment Tuesday.
Amero, a 40-year-old substitute teacher from Windham, was convicted Jan. 5 on four counts of risk of injury to a minor after she failed to prevent students from viewing pornography on a computer in a classroom at Kelly Middle School in Norwich.
The conviction has drawn international attention and ridicule from computer security experts who say Amero was a victim of malicious software that took over her computer and created a stream of pornographic “pop-up” messages.
