Sometimes it is easier to accept a plea bargain than to fight a system that is stacked with corrupt people who have corrupt motives. Unless, as others have suggested, there is more to the story than has been shared, there is no way the teacher should have been punished in this manner. Human beings make mistakes, often innocent mistakes. Furthermore, anyone who has used computers over the years knows how things can pop up that were not asked for, particularly in environments where the firewalls are pathetically weak, as seems to have been the case in this school.

With that said, I will not comment further on this topic.

Certainly the school could have used better IT practices, the substitute teacher could have taken more effective actions to limit the exposure, the administrator could have been more proactive in contacting parents and addressing possible impact on the children. Unfortunately, all those lessons and actions take a back seat over whether the courts treated the sub teacher fairly.