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Students Sent Home With X-Rated Web Link

Farm's Web Address Bought By Pornographic Company

POSTED: 4:58 pm EDT April 3, 2007
UPDATED: 7:03 pm EDT April 3, 2007

Students at a Hebron elementary school were accidentally sent home with a link to a pornographic Web site.

Third-grade students at Hebron Elementary School were sent home with a Web link to a farm they were to visit on an upcoming field trip. However, the site revealed pornographic images.

The school sent home the Web link to Creamery Brook Bison Farm in Brooklyn so that the children could learn more about next week's field trip.

Joanne Vasquez said her 8-year-old daughter discovered the incorrect link.

"She came running over to me and said, 'Something is wrong,'" Vasquez said.

Vasquez said that instead of seeing images of the farm, her daughter found graphic sexual images on the site.

Vasquez said she informed the school, which then sent out letters to the students' parents, trying to explain what had happened.

Superintendent Ellie Cruz said that the school checked the site a few weeks ago and it was fine, but the farm did not renew its Web site address, and a pornographic company bought it.

The farm has since obtained a new Web site address and the school reinforced how important it is to store computers in a family room and not in a child's bedroom.

"You always need to know what your child is doing," Vasquez said.

Farm employees said the farm has nothing to do with the pornographic Web site, and that the field trip is still scheduled for next week.

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