The crown does not seem to fit, pitiful queen.
A teenage girl from Pensacola and her mother, assistant principal of primary school, were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly hacking hundreds of student accounts to fraudulently vote for the teenager as the prom queen in the fall, police said.
Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her 17-year-old daughter Emily Rose Grover have been charged with crimes against computers, illegal use of a two-way communication device, criminal use of personally identifiable information and conspiracy to commit offenses.
An investigation by the Florida Police Department began in November, when the Escambia County School District reported that hundreds of student accounts were accessed illegally.
The investigators determined that Carroll, an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, and her daughter, a student at Tate High School, accessed FOCUS student accounts.
The FDLE said Carroll had district-level access to the school council’s FOCUS program – the school district’s student information system.
The investigation came after hundreds of votes for the Tate High School Welcome Court were flagged as fraudulent, with nearly 120 votes coming from the same IP address in a short period of time, the FDLE said.
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Investigators linked unauthorized access to FOCUS to Carroll’s cell phone, as well as computers associated with his home address, with nearly 250 votes cast in the Welcome Court.
Investigators said several students reported that Grover had described using his mother’s FOCUS account to vote for her.
Carroll was arrested at Escambia County Jail on $ 8,500 bail, while Grover was taken into custody and transferred to the Escambia Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
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It was not immediately clear whether they had a lawyer who could speak on their behalf. The State Prosecutor’s Office, First Circuit Judiciary will process the case, said the FDLE.
Fox News contacted Tate High School for comments.