A Florida high school student who is accused of working with her mother to hack into the school system to rig the homecoming election will be tried as an adult as she and her mother face a litany of felony charges.
"Emily Rose Grover was 17 years old at the time of her arrest back in March by the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement. Grover turned 18 just a few days after her arrest and will now be tried as an adult.
Grover was arrested along with her mother Laura Carroll, former assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, and are charged with one count each of felony offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks, and electronic devices; felony unlawful use of a two-way communications device, felony criminal use of personally identifiable information, and conspiracy to commit these offenses.
The misdemeanor conspiracy charge against both has been upgraded by prosecutors to a felony count, according to NorthEscambia.com."
They now face up to 16-years in prison.
The Post Millennial’s Libby Emmons contrasts this case with that of the two teens who murdered an Uber driver in DC.
"A juvenile young woman who was accused of rigging an election for homecoming at her high school in Florida is set to be tried as an adult. Two juvenile young women who killed an Uber driver in Washington, DC, were not tried as adults, and will not face any jail time. Those two girls, who carjacked a man which led directly to his death in a crash, reached a plea deal with prosecutors and will not suffer any jail time...
The homecoming queen's jurisdiction in Florida is of course a different jurisdiction from that of the young women in Washington, DC. But the consequences of killing a man seem vastly more lenient than those for voter fraud in an election for homecoming at a high school...
This is a far different punishment than the two DC girls who were videotaped carjacking and killing a man but were set free."