Happy family, new baby. Mom taking pictures, Dad changing the infant. Dad gives his son a kiss on the belly, Mom takes a photo.
Parents drop in photos to local printshop.
Parents subsequently arrested for child abuse.
Cool, no?
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Now that's plain stupid... o_O
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
How horrible! They lost those few precious months of having a newborn! Real bonding time! It just makes me sick.
I hate photo development places. Nosy busybodies is what they are. And the police are stupid.
This couple deserves a large cash settlement--and even that won't correct the wrongs done to them. 6 months in jail... THAT is criminal.
-Katarain
Edit: THOSE police are stupid. Not ALL police.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
They lost a year with their children over this? Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
6 months in prison... charged with Child Molestation... that must have been hell... inmates are not kind to those charged.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Makes me wonder what the photo looked like. It's a 2D image, so depending upon how it was shot, it *could* have looked really bad. There must be more to this story than what was in that article.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Yeap, otherwise it sounds kind of incredible... I mean, really, who would convict someone for a picture like that?!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Corwin, no one was convicted.
Nonetheless, it is horrifying and saddening. Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Ok... I'm really not familiar with how the legal system works. But then how can they keep him in jail for 6 whole month?! I mean, he was charged, but does that mean he is to be kept in jail during the trial? Or was it because of the nature of the charges?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Maybe he didn't have the money to make bail.
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
Sometimes society gets too busybody with people sometimes...
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I've worked in film & photo development before. I just want to say that this sort of thing is not because of "nosy busybodies" - there were rules for mandatory reporting of pictures depicting sexual contact with underage children.
Jeniwren already pointed out the key issue here, we don't know what the picture looked like. If you could tell in the print that he was kissing the baby's tummy, I doubt anyone would have thought twice about printing it. If it was from a different angle and it looked like the man's mouth was between the baby's legs, I definitely would have reported that, and I think most people here would too.
I agree its sad that this resulted in jail time and 6 months separated from their child. But if this had been a case where there was child molestation going on and being photographed, people would be bemoaning "Why didn't anyone SAY anything? How could they print those awful pictures without calling child services?"
--Enigmatic
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Use digital. Print on your own pc. Problem solved.
Yes, this is really sad.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
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