Bathtime Photos get children taken away from parents

[IDrinkaRum]

Innocent photos of 3 daughters in the bathtub get said daughters taken away from parents when said parents have the photos developed at a local Wal-Mart store

A Wal-Mart employee in the photo section flagged the photos as being pornographic (there is a video embedded in the above article that show some of the supposed pornographic pictures). The children were taken away from the parents for a month. Both parents have been added to the state sex offender list. Even the judge in the case said the photos were. not. pornographic.

I admit, I have pictures of Child Rum in the bathtub. (Taken with a digital camera). I know for a fact that my parents took pictures of me & my sister in our bathtubs when were younger. It just seems to be something that parents do.

The couple are, I believe, putting together a case against both the Wal-Mart and their hometown.

[DrFaroohk]

My wife takes little videos of our baby in the bath. It's cute and funny.

I can understand maybe this employee being overzealous or maybe just unsure. There's a lot of "cya" procedures to be followed in a job like that. But it just seems that there were other ways this could have happened. he could have consulted his boss, who could have pointed out that its common for parents to take pics of their kids in the bath. Or the police could have looked the pics over and realized they weren't a big threat. Or the prosecutor, judge and social services rep could have looked over these pictures and realized they weren't an issue.

Anyway, I wouldn't say its just the kid at wal-mart who made this mountain. I'd still be hunting him down and slaying his cats though.

[Boozy]

I think the Walmart clerk overreacted, but I don't understand why the parents' anger is directed at them. They're just a clerk. It was social services that took the children away based on those photos. I expect better judgement from a social worker than a photo-lab clerk.

[Nyoibo]

One of the reasons I also dislike the idea of the sex offender registry, I don't see the clerk as flaging them as pornographic, however there ame most likely regulations they had to follow to bring them to the attention of authorities, however, I would have expected much more from the authorities.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I used to work in a lab, and it souinds to me like the idiots at WalMart....from the moron clerk right up to his moron superiors...were making trouble because they like drama.

You actually have to work a little to produce porn. Nudity is not porn, and common sense ought to tell you that, I suppose, but we all know how common common sense actually is.

If we went after every client we ever had who had nude photos, half our customer base would have been arrested.

How did they kid the kids taken away if even the judge said it wasn't porn?

I'd sue Walmart so bad the freaking roaches in the walls would have to get lawyers.

[DrFaroohk]

Social services, at least where I live, are like the Gestapo. To them, you're guilty even after proven innocent. I would expect the clerk called the cops or whateve, and probably within the hour the local Standartenfuhrer was headed on over to their house and snatched up the kids. It was only after legal proceedings that they got them back.

[Fashion Lad!]

A lot of stores (I used to work at one) said you had to report any photographs of any children who were not fully clothed. It wasn't our job to determine if it was child pornography or not. That was up to the correct people.

If that was the case at that store, than the employees and Wal-Mart shouldn't be sued.

Because the people that should determine if it was child pornography or not would be the courts and Child Protective Services. And they're idiots.

[BroomJockey]

I'd still be hunting him down and slaying his cats though.

Joking or not, that statement is completely not cool. Animal cruelty and an illegal act. Nice. Nice and evil, any ways.

[Cats]

Okay, let me just say I will NEVER understand the whole parental facination with taking pics of their kids naked in the bathtub. I think it sort of disturbing, actually. However, I do understand that it is commonplace, and parents who do that with malicious intent are the exception, not the rule.

At my company, nudity in pictures is perfectly fine, as long as there's no sexual contact going on (though a close up picture of a dick and nothing else isn't going to get printed either). Kids in the bathtub or a woman breast feeding her newborn or topless woman artpiece pictures aren't any threat. Porno photos simply won't be printed, and abusive pics do need to be reported to the cops.

Nudity is not pronographic in and of itself. Hell, porn itself doesn't actually require full nudity.

What occured here is just wrong on so many levels.

[Greenday]

Okay, let me just say I will NEVER understand the whole parental facination with taking pics of their kids naked in the bathtub. I think it sort of disturbing, actually. However, I do understand that it is commonplace, and parents who do that with malicious intent are the exception, not the rule.

Neither do I. I don't want to see pictures of kids naked. It's not cute at all.

As for how the situation was handled...it was obviously mishandled. Seeing as it's not porn and the parents didn't really do anything wrong, there's no reason the kid should have been taken away.

[DrFaroohk]

Joking or not, that statement is completely not cool. Animal cruelty and an illegal act. Nice. Nice and evil, any ways.

Man why everybody always got to be up and pissing in my koolaid!?

lol...i'll try to watch it.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, if those pics are any indication, they weren't even nude.

[Nyoibo]

I don't want to see pictures of kids naked. It's not cute at all.

I don't know, there's a pic of me when I was a couple of years old wearing my dads work boots and his hat that I've been told is pretty cute, me I mostly find it embarassing.

[IDrinkaRum]

The pics of child rum (on the digital camera) were of her and her first time in a bubble bath. It was mostly face shots (you can't see anything from like mid-chest down. The look on her face is absolutely priceless!

I just like taking pictures of my child. I think that's why parents are forever taking pictures - no matter where the child is.

[gremcint]

I don't know, there's a pic of me when I was a couple of years old wearing my dads work boots and his hat that I've been told is pretty cute, me I mostly find it embarassing.

you mean you don't know? embarassing to you = cute to others, the more embarassing the more cute.