Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (The Weekly Vice) -- Carolyn Maria McNeal, a 39-year-old high school secretary faces 58 charges after using logging into a school computer system to improve her daughter's grades.
According to Huntingdon Police, McNeal used her co worker's passwords to log into a school computer system and change her daughter's grades. She also reportedly used the system to lower the grades of two other students.
Investigators say McNeal changed nearly 200 grades and test scores between May, 2006 and July, 2007. The alleged tampering came to light in October, 2007, when an employee in the high school guidance office discovered conflicting SAT scores. Criminal charges in the case were filed Thursday.
McNeal's daughter's cumulative SAT scores jumped 360 points as a result of the tampering and that the changes came from McNeal's computer, according to court documents.
Employees told investigators they trusted McNeal with their passwords when they were absent due to vacations and sick days. The grades in question have since been corrected.
McNeal now faces felony 29 counts of unlawful use of a computer and 29 felony counts of tampering with public records. Each count is punishable by up to seven years on prison and a $15,000 fine.
Danny Vice
The Weekly Vice
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Now neither one of them look very smart.
Seven years per count!!! That would be over 200 hundred years if served consecutively. I don't think the child molestors are getting that kind of sentence.
So the cheerleader moms have gone high tech.
the lowering the grades of other students is what the DA will focus most on....but i wonder what the plea deal will be?
Maybe she should have focused more on helping her child study than trying to find the easy way out...shame, shame, shame mom!
Another broad who has time to meddle in the affairs of others instead of minding her own responsibilities. I'll bet she's a gossipy one too. I can see her camping on the phone instead of sweeping the floor.
Broads are no bargain. Gossipy and meddlesome.
Tony, something tells me your mother hit you on the head with a broom one too many times.
The most unforgivable thing here here is that she tampered with the grades (lowered) of two other students.
For this, she should get jail time.
I bet her daughter is catching pure dee hell.
Carolyn McNeal = an ambitious enabler
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