Florida mom, daughter accused of rigging homecoming queen votes break silence l GMA 

I just cannot imagine taking something like being the “homecoming queen” THAT seriously.

She said she “had a feeling” what the school official called her in for already… that kind of gives it away. And the smiling through this interview is so weird.

“Homecoming was supposed to be the biggest moment of her life” Who here EVER thinks about their high school homecoming today? I’m 31 and I can tell you with 100% certainty that I haven’t thought about homecoming since literally that night. Couldn’t even tell you who won or anything about it. But this just sets the ideology for how this girl will act towards things she doesn’t get as an adult.

My guess is that the mother is living vicariously through her daughter and the daughter is a spoiled little brat. The charges pending against them make them both look incredibly suspicious.

Notice how the daughter SMILES when is asked if she did this. A very mischievous smile. Body language does not lie!

The daughter thinks the whole situation is funny. The mother seems like a a Karen. The truth will come out entitlement does not always work.

I suddenly remembered kourtney saying..."there's people that are dying"

Nobody cares about homecoming queen and ish anymore

This is by far the MOST RIDICULOUS thing that I've ever heard. Have we really fallen so low?!

So this isn’t about the homecoming issue, it’s about the fraudulent use of the system?. Oooh okay now I am understanding the issue. Lol

You know what’s going to be evidence? This freaking interview.

The way the daughter keeps laughing facing that many years is very telling. She did it

I just can't wait for the Lifetime Movie because this is craziness

She was smiling hella hard then broke out into fake tears GIRL u cant look any more guilty .

It’s honestly so embarrassing that someone cares so much about a stupid title like homecoming queen that they have to heck into the system like it’s literally like the villain in a Disney channel movie

At the end the reporter says the teenager noted that 'even removing the fraudulent votes she still would've won homecoming queen' Does she still think this is all just about homecoming queen and not computer hacking and having unauthorized access to others private medical information?

they are weird. If i was being arrested for a crime I did not commit I would not be smiling in my mugshot nor would I be smiling while being interviewed like it's funny. This will impact the rest of the daughter's future yet she thinks it's funny? Chileeee. They clearly did it and have no remorse about it.

LMFAO 😂 imagine ruining both your daughter and your lives for homecoming

The biggest whopper of all time is “having Emily as Homecoming queen was not important at all” after she clearly risks her freedom her kids future and her job to make it happen. People who can look into the camera and lie despite overwhelming evidence of guilt fascinate me

I ran for homecoming and lost. Would have been cool but 24 years later it wouldn’t have been the biggest moment of my life. So sad for this young girl to have a mother teach her bad values.

If I was their lawyer I’ll tell them to shut up.

The fact they are even trying to deny it is insane

For those saying “oh 16 years for rigging a high school homecoming election?!” It’s the logging in and accessing medical records and all that. That’s straight up illegal. Her own friends/classmates have said the girl accessed them before per their request to see know their grades before they were available. She’s even said had access if they needed to know anything. She had no businesses using her mom’s log info or even having it. The only reason for her to have it in the first place that I could think of is if an emergency happened or something. Like, keeping it locked away if something happened to her mom where she couldn’t do her job and a staff member needed to take over or something if that makes sense. She won the homecoming without all those fraudulent votes so I don’t understand why this even happened, it’s not that serious. It’s a high school election 🙄 Plus, it’s a different world and for some reason people keep forgetting that the oh so snitchy DIGITAL TRAIL will almost always trace back to either you or where you were last.

I’m sure they already tracked their IP addresses of when this all occurred. The mom and her daughter know they did it but have to just keep denying it until they’re in prison. Like the daughter keeps laughing when asked if she did it that’s a tell tell come on now.

“And took us in handcuffs”. That’s what happens when you’re arrested ma’am!! Sadly the daughter has the mothers conniving ways.

The issue is that they breaches students privacy and abused the educational management system....the fraud charges are from privacy breach.

They know what they did. You don’t need to have “evidence” of what you didn’t do…? Lol, what a dumb reason to lose your job & life for.

Im waiting for the Lifetime TV movie. Lifetime should cast Lori Loughlin and her daughter Olivia Jade in the lead roles. 😜😜

The fact that they keep smiling further let's me know they are 💯% GUILTY.

Private info on OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN was comprimised. The mother, as an AP and a position of power, GROSSLY abused said power, and the charges are appropriate.

I'm getting Lifetime movie vibes: The Evil Homecoming Queen😁 weird that they would jeopardize so much for a tiara and sash from Claire's...😅😅

A jury in court will review the evidence and decide the verdict, not a jury of public opinion. All they said in the interview was that they didn’t do it. If they had evidence their attorneys could have given it to the prosecution to have the charges dropped. Not providing the evidence means that their evidence isn’t rock solid and could only provide a possible doubt in the juries’ minds of guilt, because someone had done it.

16 years in prison for absolutely what !? Charge them a hefty fine and dedicate more time to solving real crimes 🙄🙄

Sis should have took the plea deal. She comes across guilty AF. We all know how much people like to see the prom queen humiliated. Actually Stephen king should write this screenplay.

Florida should become it's own country. Y'all are on another planet for real.

They know they’ll be fine. Grinning from ear to ear

When you see "Florida" in the title you know it's gonna be a good story

It was a setup,cafeteria lady did it.🤣

16 yrs. That's crazy

I totally believe that. There’s no way you can expect the vice principals daughter to win and it NOT be rigged

“There’s evidence to prove that she (her daughter) did not do that.” Yeah…because you did it for her 🤡

16 years for rigging a homecoming vote. 5 minutes for insurrection. Ok. How pitiful is it that being homecoming queen is "the greatest moment in her life". And what did this interview prove? "We didn't do it." Oh, well then, case closed.

Over 170 votes came from the same IP address and over 200 votes were traced back to the mums phone. So yeah they did it.

The biggest moment of her life? Oh my god….

Forty three years ago(!) we had something similar happen in high school. The song leaders had tryouts and judges picked a group to be voted on by the student body to make the final squad. A brother of one of the girls had access to the voting process and he and a friend made sure his sister made the squad. It was found out and no one was punished, they just had the girl that should have made it join the group and let the sister that did not legitimately make it stay on. So there were 7 song leaders that year instead of 6. But everyone knew and that had to suck for the girl (I don't know if she knew her brother was going to do that or not).

No good lawyer would support them giving an interview without the lawyer present. Both mom and daughter will be “homecoming queen” in prison if they get 16 yrs. Using mom’s access code on home computer and mom’s phone, “I had a feeling I knew what it was about”, smiling and laughing throughout the interview......heck maybe the family pet did it! What does dad have to say?

I can't imagine caring that much, about something as ridiculous as homecoming LMAO

Being smug about it isn’t going to help them either, maybe stop smiling in mug shots like Jodi arias!!!

Why is this a crime? Who cares?

For those who say it’s not serious - what if mom was a nurse/Dr. and daughter broke into medical files -.same difference you can not help yourself to someone else’s personal information - also I would consider it identity theft if they pretended to be other students using their log in info… The fact that they find it funny just makes it worse…

Her laughing and smiling is so creepy.

They probably thought it was too small to notice and it's possible to get away with. They were wrong. Even if they are found innocent. Everyone knows what they did. That's embarrassing.

Moms idea, daughter went along with it, smiling.

This is why a lot of defendants don't take the stand. Some people have that guilty look even when they are innocent and some guilty people are such narcissists they think people will fall for their bs. Their attorney should have told them not to do this interview cause they look guilty as hell.

So a thief steals purse at gun point and pushes grandma into train tracks in NY and gets a few weeks in jail but these people rig a beauty pageant and get 16 years in jail ? Something is not sitting right

The looks on their faces when they took their mugshots, 101% GUILTY

the was literally smiling and laughing and .2 seconds later she was in tears girl BYE 🤣🤣

This is news???🤣🤣🤣🤣

Guilty as charged. When she said she had a feeling... When she was called in!!! Wow 😣

Who cares…they did it. Just pay a fine and keep it moving damn

Daughter won't be so smug in prison. CRIMINALS get handcuffed.

Lol after the whole Brian laundries thing, I think we can all say THEY ARENT GONNA CHARGE YOU WITHOUT PROOF.

😂🤦🏼‍♀️ imagine using your energy for this? Omg. Rig something useful for yourself if you’re gonna bother 😂

With all the problems in the world, REALLY? FELONY CHARGES?! America is sick!

Who would care to 'crown' a person for their physical appearance and glorify superficiality? Who would store PLAIN TEXT passwords in a system? Who would give access to medical records to a teacher / store them in a teacher accessible system? No idea why youtube recommended this to me but I'm always amazed at what is 'normal' in the usa.

Arrested? This is ridiculous!

Does anyone know what happened in court?

“We didn’t do it” Honey, the evidence is overwhelming……

Oh Florida Florida Florida 😂

Complete narcissists they couldn’t stay out of the public eye to save their lives 🙄

What a sad life, if that’s your biggest moment

Wow everyone assumes they are guilty. For this young girl, I hope not. I give the the benefit of the doubt.

Well my question is who all has access to the IT portal?

16 years behind bars, that sounds way too much

Once again....This happened in Flori-Duh!

What is this Defiance..all my gladiators should know what that means 😂

What??? This is way to crazy!!

I need updates

For each account hacked, it should be a day of community service. Honestly that's about it if they didn't use their information for anything else... but HIPAA is no joke.

That high school reunion is going to be awkward.

They traced it back to the moms phone!!!’ Well it have to be one of them if not both and they both look guilty. If the daughter didn’t help out she sure knew about it.

Their reactions are weird, they're clearly GUILTY.

Wait 16 years?! That is just ridiculous. These ladys did something wrong but this girls only a teenager…you are really gone take away her 20’s for a homecoming queen scandal?!

Is the girl okay? She literally smiled while saying "No I can't tell you." And then starts crying like she is the victim. AND THEN SMILES THE NEXT SECOND!? Like- is she LITERALLY OKAY!?

These things have always been fixed in the US.

Lol why are they smiling on their mugshots? It’s so weird, and then the random moment where the girl cries. I can’t 😂

This girl smiling and laughing… I see guilty

So they didn’t give the crown back to the 2nd runner up??? Damn that’s cold af.

5 months of investigation that's linked to them. "I had a feeling" . Smiling. Ummm girl you about to go to jail and your smiling?

16 years is a bit harsh, for that

Meanwhile husband poisoning his wife on camera gets 30 days

It’s sad to think the memories she wanted to have for the rest of her adult life as the pinnacle of her childhood is fake. Then why have it? Her answer is move away from this.

Anything for a fake plastic crown huh?

They did it and they know they did it!!! Who is going be able to frame you with all that evidence from you damn house and phone?!?!?!

So pathetic that the mother was willing to risk her job and her daughter's future over a cheap plastic crown and sash that anyone can buy at a party supply store. Their body language and smirks alone in this video gives away the fact of their guilt. I hope they do get jail time.

I like how the daughter keeps smiling during the interview but also she keeps wiping her dry face 😂😂😂

Sad and shallow. Some people commit crimes for riches...others commit crimes for no good reason, apparently.

Arrested for rigging homecoming Queen mdrr 🤣

Why does an elementary school employee have access to high school records?

The daughter thinks that this is funny for some reason.