Monday, 28 September 2009
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Innocent Bath-Time Photos Get Kids Taken Away From Parents
bathtime photos equal sex offender parents?
Ok so I found this link from Yahoo Answers and thought it was ridiculous. Apparently this couple took bath time pictures of their naked kids (most parents do this right?) to Walmart to get developed and some woman in the photo developing place called the police and CPS on the couple. Well their kids got taken away for a month and the parents now have to register as sex offenders and the mom lost her job as a teacher for 1 year! What is this country coming to?
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Today's moment-of-pause has been brought to you by Wal-Mart and the city of Peoria, Az. Apparently, some photo-clerk vigilante, diligently on the lookout for child pornography, saw photos of kids during bath time and decided to call the cops, according to a story on Good Morning America.
Next thing the parents of these kids knew, the children were removed from their home. For an entire month. Mom got suspended from her job for a year and both -- Anthony and Lisa Demaree -- were added to a list of sex offenders. The judge in the case said the pix were harmless.
"I don't understand it at all," Anthony Demaree told GMA, with his wife by his side. "Ninety, 95 percent of the families out there in America have these exact same photos."
Now they've got another shot to take. This time it's directed at Wal-Mart and their hometown.PRODUCTION PLAYER! DO NOT DELETE.Do you think the clerk and the police did the right thing?
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Why did they have to register if the judge said they were harmless? If this is illegal, how can having a kid live in a nudist community not be? You can't even "se anything" in the photos. Though I can't say I'm not surprised.
No! They did not! I used to be a photo technician at CVS and that was NOT in our protocol at ALL. Inappropriate pictures were deemed sexually explicit, nudity, etc. And if we felt something was questionable we were just supposed to tell the patron we could not develop their photos. If the kids were being touched in photos, or if someone was clearly abusing them in photos, or if they were inappropriately touching each other then we were supposed to show our MANAGER who would then decide whether to contact the authorities.
I just think that THAT situation is completely ridiculous! >:(Not at all. The daughter even looks like she's wearing a bathing suit! No parent should have to file as a sex offender for taking innocent bath time photos. This also isn't a smart move for Walmart in terms of business. I can't see many parents developing similar photos with them now.Â
not at all. What the hell is wrong with that woman?
This is really dumb.
Idiots, all of them who let it get that far. They should be taken right back off the list and she should get her job back immediately. That Wal-Mart employee is a moron and so is everyone involved at CPS to have let it all happen. Where are their brains?!
That is so stupid! My mom had pictures of me butt naked in all my glory taking bubble baths. She always kept them so she could show them off to my boyfriends later (lol). There's nothing wrong with that, and I feel so bad for those parents.
Wow, this country is ridiculous. What a douchebag clerk. what the hell did she see in those pictures to feel the need to cal the cops? And to take her kids away and have to register as sex offenders? For taking pictures of their own children in a shot that could be taken at beach??? I don't know what the hell this country is coming to.
yeesh I'm glad people weren't so strict back in the 80s. I had tons of naked pictures of me taken as a child. In one of them I'm running down the hallway at 2 1/2 or almost 3 stark naked. You can see everything. Apparently I'd stripped all my clothes off myself (including my diaper) and went on a freedom run and my parents thought it was hilarious, so they snapped a picture.
I once heard a story of a camp counselor in like the 70s or 80s that took a picture of all of her little kidnergartener/preschool girl campers standing in a row with their little butts showing. I think they might have been in swim suits. It was supposed to be an "innocent" cute picture but parents were upset. I can see why in that case. They weren't her kids. But almost every parent takes nekked pictures of their little ones, or at least they did when I was growing up.
@xiaosnowtenshi@xanga - I don't think the pictures of the kids above in the bathing suits with musical instruments were the pictures involved. THey probably wouldn't release those pictures if they were deemed "child pornography"
WOW. I can't believe this. I mean, my mom put naked pictures of me and my sister as little tykes on the WALL in the bathroom at home! (Of course, the pictures didn't show anything private, but still.) This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Those poor parents and those poor kids for having to live in the crappy foster care system (okay, I don't know that it's as bad there as ours is here, but I assume) for one month. They were more likely to be sexually traumatized in foster care than at home!
No I don't think they did the right thing. Many people have photos like that of their child. If there is not genital areas showing I see nothing wrong. Plus why would they develope them at Walmart, no digital camera/home computer?!
that is horrible. everything is illegal now! as long as the kids aren't OBVIOUSLY being molested & posing naked for the camera, it should be fine. my friend has a pic of he brother & his junk is all out. gosh. i think people can tell the difference form bath time photos & child pornography.
sheesh. I know not to develop any bath time pics of my daughter now.this is rediculous
@SusieQRellyzBoo@xanga - some people dont have a digital camera photo printer so they go to walmart & develop them with their photo printer-thingy to put in the photo albums & baby books, etc...
i did this before I got my photo printer.I guess they won't do that anymore =/
Wow, that is just too extreme. I have pictures of my baby son taking his first bubble bath. Arrest me--I'm a child sex offender!
How shameful that this family's life has been torn apart from such a petty thing like bath pictures. I can go into my family photo albums and easily find a dozen pictures just like this. I guess that makes my parents sex offenders too. Ridiculous.
was it showing full on private parts? or just them playing? i have pictures of my boys in the bath together, they are 3 and 1 and it shows their chest but not their privates.
Good thing I have my own photo printer. Even though my son's bathtime pictures don't show anything. I keep the camera at bathtub level and only get him from the chest up. This bullshit gives me even more reason to stay away from department store photo labs.
I guess we're all sex offenders here.
If they seemed to be physically doing something wrong in the photo then YES, I would applaud the Walmart employee. But seriously, the parents just thought the kid looked ridiculously cute all bubbled up with crazy wet hair & snapped few pictures. I think it's harmless and I might even do the same when I have kids and I'm sure TOOOOONS of people have done so. I know my parents proudly have a picture my bare butt climbing up the stair in my baby albums....and it's hilarious. This isn't the first time you hear about something like this though.
Wow, that is stupidity on a whole nother level. I hope that clerk gets owned by karma - maybe when he/she gets children someday, he/she'll see how stupid they were. Seriously. What the hell is wrong with people.
It flew all over me! I think that the state steps in way too much. It's a right of passage from being a toddler and parents of a toddler to pre school. Geezz! I was watching AFV the last two days and one of the big contenders for $100000 was a video of a little girl dancing in the foreground and in the back ground were her two brothers butt naked mocking her. AFV blacked out the parts but it was on there for the whole world to see.
You have to click on the good morning America link to view the video.
I read this story and thought it had to be the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard. I have eight children and I can promise that there are plenty of "naked" baby and toddler pictures around this house. I even have one that was done at a portrait studio years ago. My son is naked on a rug, quick call CPS.
This clerk completely overreacted and I think it is a shame that these parents are having to deal with this. Those poor children were removed from their parents for a month. I really hate stupid people.
this is not right. I have to say though, that if CPS took the kids for a month and the judge ultimately declared them to be harmless.
I just dont get it though... there has to be more to the story on this.. I work CPS all the time and never have I heard of such an instance.. and I am old!!
So, I saw the video with the pictures. THE KIDS WERE IN TOWELS!! Seriously?!
I have pictures of my daughter in the bathtub. You can't see any of her private parts because her foot or belly is covering it. If I got turned in for that, I'd have to smack some common sense into someone.