A former physical trainer at St. John’s Hospital was convicted a of sexually exploiting children by secretly videotaping minor females at the hospital’s training facility. Scott Johnson, 30, of Springfield, Mo., was found guilty of eight counts of the sexual exploitation of a child. Johnson was taken into federal custody to await sentencing. Johnson was…
Category: Court
School Can’t Record Audio in Special-Ed Classrooms
Jeff Gorman reports: An Illinois appeals court shot down a school district’s plan to place audio-recording equipment in special-education classrooms, saying it would violate a state eavesdropping law. Denise Plock and three other parents sued Freeport School District No. 145 to stop its plan to install the audio recorders. The district decided to install audio-recording…
Google lawyers begin closing arguments in Italian trial
Philip Willan reports on the trial of four Google executives in Milan. The case stems from a video depicting harassment of a disabled youth that was uploaded to Google Video and that was not pulled until two months after it was uploaded. Google claims it removed the video as soon as it was made aware…
AU: Spam mastermind faces court
Amelia Bentley reports: A Sunshine Coast man accused of being the mastermind of the world’s largest online spam operation, which could send 10 billion emails a day, faced court in Brisbane today. Lance Thomas Atkinson, 26, has admitted to being behind a large-scale spam-sending operation that sent emails to internet users all over the world….