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I have moved to digital and can print my own photos, so the processing is no longer an issue.
We were on a hike in a canyon along a picturesque stream. We were the only people for miles. Our girls (10 and 8) asked if they could swim and we let them in their panties. When they were done, we had them lay on flat rocks to dry off. They were so cute, I snapped some of the cutest pictures of them; big smiles, laying on their tummies on these big rocks in this beautiful canyon.
So I'll take the photos, but I will not post them anywhere or share them with anyone. I printed them so the girls can put them in their scrapbooks.
I agree it's crazy, you just have to be smart. And pray that common sense catches up with the courtroom drama!
The problem is that child porn is in the eye of the beholder. What looks cute and innocent to one person looks lewd or provocative to another. In my mind, is really clear what would be child porn and what wouldn't. "Porn" would be, to me, sexually explicit in some way. Anyone looking at a picture of a baby splashing around in a bathtub and thinking "sexually explicit" is the one with that should be locked up somewhere, IMO.
Real perverts are out there and living in a bubble isn't going to change that. Why bother arresting somebody over a picture of their child in a bathtub? A real pedophile watches Nick Jr and gets off on diaper commercials and sales ads of little girls in bathing suits. They watch kids playing innocently on a playground and get aroused. Is arresting a parent over a little bare bun shot stopping the real perverts? The truth is, you can't stop them. All you can do is protect your kids from them.
The mother was suspended from her job for a year (she worked at a school).
Thanks for finding that. That story came out when MissFR was a baby. Her grandmother gets all her photos printed at walmart. I was terrified she would inadvertently send a nudie shot over for processing, and we'd be investigated. What a ridiculous thing to have to worry about.
When I was a kid, every parent and their dog had a photo of their kids in the altogether on the living room wall. The one with the bare butt on the sheepskin rug, kind of thing.
It's a shame we've twisted something so innocent as a photo of a naked child into something to be afraid of.
It is really sad. I snapped a really cute pic of dd when she was a toddler. She had climbed up on the kitchen counter and was trying to sneak some candy and I caught her. Of course she was completely naked. I snapped a pic with my cell phone before she knew I was there. I wanted to text it to DH, but then had to stop myself because what if someone else sees it and say I am distributing child porn. Then I was worried about the pic being on my phone. I wanted to keep a copy, but is it worse to walk around with the picture? It snowballed into a big worry.
What should have been a cute little "hey honey. Look at the cute thing your daughter was doing." Became a big worry. It is ridiculous.
I had wanted to take bathtime pics of my 6 month old granddaughter, but ran that same scenario through my head. Heaven forbid someone come across them, not find the pictures as adorable as I would and I end up on some sex offender registry somewhere.
i take pics of my kids however i want. i took a pic of my son in the bathtub covered in bubbles just last week. i print them myself and put them in albums.
stop living in fear. just use a digital camera, print it off and toss it in the baby book! whose gonna know but you and your family!
geesh!
and its ridiculous that because of certain cases, people have to even THINK about whether or not to do it. the pervs are the ones with the problems, not the parents!
anybody know how the above referenced case turned out. Unbelievable how something like this could happen but unfortunately it does more than we know.
The case was dropped fast and in a hurry! It is really common that during graduation times in Sweden, parents of HS kids display blown up pictures of their kids when they were just babies, while they are waiting outside the HS during graduation day.
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Heaven forbid someone come across them, not find the pictures as adorable as I would and I end up on some sex offender registry somewhere.
