North Babylon Elementary Student Accesses Porn On School Computer

NORTH BABYLON, NY - A student at Parliament Place Elementary School in North Babylon was caught looking at inappropriate material on a school computer last week.

On Wednesday, the district announced that a student accessed the content while in school and immediately launched an investigation into the matter.

"As a result of a thorough diagnostic assessment it was determined that our filtering system had failed to properly block a specific website," a statement from Superintendent Glen Eschbach read.

Afterwards, the district stated that they put in additional internet safety precautions in place that would prevent access to the site and any of its nature.

"These actions include, limiting the search engines available to students and staff, utilizing Google Safe Search, and monitoring district filters twice a day through manual review by our technology department," the statement from the school read. "Please know that the wellbeing of our students is our utmost concern and top priority when educating our students. And, although we are in a time when we discuss security in a different manner, internet safety remains at the forefront of our minds. We will continue to work with the student body to emphasize the importance of internet safety and proper usage of technology."

Parents Gregory and Kristen Pitre spoke to ABC7 claiming that their son was sitting next to the boy who viewed the images on the school computer.

After their son told them what had happened, the couple went down to the school and were able to access dozens of pornographic images on a computer inside a classroom, ABC7 reports.

The two then went to administrators asking for an incident report and refused to leave the property, resulting in their arrest for criminal trespass, according to ABC7.

"Why would you have parents taken away in handcuffs when they're trying to discuss a serious issue with you?" Gregory toldABC7.

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