A Newtown teen has been arrested and charged with a series of hate and computer crimes after allegedly disrupting online high school classes last fall with racial epithets, police announced Tuesday.
The boy, who was not identified publicly because of their age, was charged with three counts of the state hate crime ridicule on account of race, three counts of fifth-degree computer crime and three counts of disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents, Newtown police said.
The arrest caps a six-month investigation after an anonymous person accessed Google Classrooms at Newtown High School last fall and used racial epithets “in an abusive and disruptive manner,” Lt.