A Florida woman and her daughter were arrested after they allegedly hacked into the school’s computer system to manipulate homecoming queen votes.
RELATED STORIES: NYC’s “Naked Cowboy” Arrested For Panhandling In Florida
Bellview Elementary School assistant principal Laura Rose Carroll,50, and her daughter Emily Rose Grover,17, were arrested Tuesday after a months-long investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The investigation began in November 2020 after the Escambia County School District filed a report about hundreds of student accounts being breached. A month prior to the report, the votes from Tate High School’s Homecoming Court were flagged as fraudulent since 117 of those votes came from the same IP address. Investigators also reported that Carroll accessed the school’s system from her cellphone.
The report also stated that Carroll’s account had access to 339 student accounts from the high school out of 372 accounts from the school district. Students also informed investigators that Rover bragged about her mother hacking the school’s system to make the votes. The mother-daughter duo was charged with unlawful use of a two-way communications device and criminal use of personally identifiable information along with several other federal offenses.
RELATED STORIES: Florida Man Sentenced To 20 Years After Cutting Off Penis Of Wife’s Lover With Scissors
Carroll was suspended from her job and Grover was expelled from her high school for the crimes. The teen was held at the Escambia Regional Juvenile Detention Center while her mother was held at the Escambia County Jail on an $8,500 bond.
SOURCE: New York Post