For dorothea perry and robert gross, the course of action seemed clear enough when Gross, an IT support specialist working at New York Law School, opened a folder on a faulty PC last June only to discover thumbnail images of naked young girls in sexually explicit positions. The IT colleagues reported the finding to their manager, setting off a chain of events that resulted in the arrest of the professor who used the computer and, last month, his guilty plea. An open-and-shut case, right? Not by a long shot. Within a few weeks of reporting what they saw on the PC of professor Edward Samuels, a copyright law expert, Perry and Gross found themselves on slippery footing with their employer, Collegis Inc., an IT outsourcing company under contract to New York Law School. Both workers were put on probation for a range of issues unrelated to the childporn finding, and in October, they were fired.
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