[LM_NET] Another teacher

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

This did not happen at school, but here is another story about someone who
was under criminal suspicion and whose life was destroyed apparently in
error because of porn found on a computer:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Dec-23-Sat-2006/news/11597481.ht
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INTERNET DOWNLOADING: Teacher cleared in porn case

Music instructor 'an innocent man who was wrongly accused'

By ADRIENNE PACKER 
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Ryan Gourley
Music teacher has "suffered a loss of standing in his profession and the
community"
Music teacher Ryan Gourley was investigated for more than a year and
arrested last summer after he was accused of downloading child pornography
on an acquaintance's computer.

Since then, his contract with Cram Middle School was terminated and Gourley,
despite proclaiming his innocence, has been ostracized by neighbors,
according to his attorney, Robert Draskovich. As far as the community was
concerned, he was a child molester.

After a five-hour hearing Thursday, Justice of the Peace Tony Abbatangelo
exonerated Gourley on all 16 child pornography-related counts against him,
claiming that the state failed to produce enough evidence to send him to
trial.

Nancy

-- 
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
http://cyberbully.org
http://cyber-safe-kids.com
nwillard@csriu.org

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social
Aggression, Threats, and Distress (Research Press)

Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the
Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass)

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