That vulnerability nearly sent their teenage son to prison for a crime – possession of child pornography -- that there is every reason to believe he did not commit. It almost saddled that child with a sexual-offender label that would have haunted and handicapped him the rest of his life. And it did force the boy to plead guilty to a lesser charge, a comically trumped-up offense springing from his admitted sharing with other teens – horror of horrors – a copy of Playboy. (Thank heavens for the statute of limitations lest 95% of the country's male population would be vulnerable to prosecution on that one.)

Loehrs went into the Bandys' computer and what she found could frighten any parent -- more than 200 infected files, so-called backdoors that allowed hackers to access the family computer from remote locations, no where near Matthew's house. "They could be on your computer and you'd never know it," she said.
Loehrs says she does not believe that Matthew uploaded those images onto his computer "based on everything I know and everything I've seen on that hard drive."