A ninth-grade LaFayette High School student caused all Walker County School websites to be shut down since the first day of classes in September after he posted porn and a graphic video to several sites, officials said.
The 15-year-old Georgia teen also is being held responsible for posting a lewd, altered profile of LaFayette High School Principal Mike Culberson to the school’s website at the same time, said Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson.
But authorities weren’t able to link the crime to the teen until recently, and he was arrested this week on a felony charge of computer trespassing, Wilson said. The teen has been questioned and released to his parents, the sheriff said.
Since the school server was shut down, officials have spent more than $10,000 on labor and other factors, and technical personal have worked 2,000 hours to rebuild the websites, said Walker County Schools spokeswoman Elaine Womack.
When the compromised websites were discovered, the entire school server was shut down, and technical personal have switched providers and been working on a more secure site since that time, Womack said.