The residents of Pasco County can rest easy tonight knowing that a devious eighth grader has been severely punished by the local Sheriff for his so-called cybercrimes.
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office charged Domanik Green, an eighth-grader at Paul R. Smith Middle School, last week with a felony offense against a computer system and unauthorized access, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Sheriff Chris Nocco told the paper that Green logged onto the school’s network using an administrative-level password and used that access to change the background image on a teacher’s computer to one showing two men kissing.
Apparently the computer that the 14-year-old accessed also had the questions to a standarized test stored on it, though official said there was no evidence that Green accessed or tampered with them.
“Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done,” Nocco told the Tampa Bay Times.
Green said the password was just the teacher’s last name and that classmates pulled this kind of prank all the time. He put the photo on there “to annoy him,” according to the paper.
Green was released the same day into the custody of his mother. He also faces a 10-day suspension from school, in addition to the felony charges.
Thank goodness this big fish has been taken care of! The streets feel safer already.
