8th Grader Faces Felony Charges for Changing Teacher’s Computer Background

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http://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/

By Laura Stampler
@LauraStampler
Time.com
April 10, 2015

Pranksters be warned

Eight-grader Domanik Green was arrested on felony charges in Holiday, Fla. 
Wednesday after breaking into his teacher’s computer to change the 
background picture to two men kissing.

Green, 14, who was released the day of his arrest, said that he broke into 
the computer of teacher he didn’t like after realizing that faculty 
members’ passwords were simply their last names, the Tampa Bay Times 
reports. Green, who previously faced a three-day suspension for a similar 
prank, said that many students got in trouble for breaking into teachers’ 
computers.

“Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what 
this teenager might have done,” Sheriff Chris Nocco told the Tampa Bay 
Times Thursday.

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