A picture of a kid breastfeeding=child porn?
 

More of the 3-page article can be found at http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues...l/1/index.html


What are your thoughts on this

Nothing like a good witchhunt.

I wonder if they float in water?

They couldn't be picking on her because she's an immigrant... Nah.

This is rediculous. I feel so bad for that family. I'd hate to think that it was because she was foreign, but hey, I wouldn't put it past the law enforcement.

That makes me burn. I breast feed my daughter still and she's 2 1/2. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that the natural weaning age for human babies is between 2 1/2 yrs and 7 years of age. Natural being when the babies are emotionally and phyically ready. I have seen numerous pictures of mothers breastfeeding that are shown in videos endorsed by Social Services as a way of encouraging new mothers to breastfeed. If this isn't a double standard I don't know what is. There are so many cases of neglect and child abuse out there that aren't recearched. These authorities need to get their priorities straight and start helping the children that NEED it. Grrrrr

yes, this is how it goes out there.
don't underestimate the rabidity of the finger-pointing anti-sex police and their willingness to have you in the grips of their dogs' teeth.

It's the authorities calling it child pornography that have the sick minds here, thinking these photos have some sort of sexual innuendo/connotation rather than the bonding experience and memories.

Yeah, no kidding. My wife nurses our daughter. Since when is that erotic? Last I checked, it's nature, and a way for our daughter to be healthy. What a bunch of perverts.

this reminds me of a scene from a movie (I think it was armageddon) where a guy is doing a rorsharch test
(first blot) Woman with big breasts
(second blot) redhead with big breasts
(third blot) You (the male psych) with big breasts

or something like that. ANYTHING is perverted if you believe it is. What really disturbs me is that the US (home of free speech) is the most closed-minded, censoring country. If someone says you're a child molester, then apparently you are, because free speech never applies to defending yourself

You can tell the folks in the city of Richardson, TX exactly how you feel by using this form. I just sent them a few kind words about the sanctity of one's home and requested that the police chief issue a public apology.

Have at it. It isn't the first Amendment for no reason.

Thats just sad. I know people around here.. from america that take pictures of their kids.. Its just a memory. Where they doing sexual acts to the children? Was there fear and terror in their eyes? I think not. This just sickens me, Child porn... by their parents? and... ugh.. I can't of anything to say, this was just plain wrong. Breast feeding is natural.... That, and so what if she's topless? I don't think there are any laws that say its illegal for a woman to be topless... Whats the big deal? The photo's were for the family not the guy making them. :(

Okay, I'm gonna write down a biologically observed concept here and I want you all to watch as the conservative sex Nazis' heads explode.

Are you ready?

Two words:
Male. breastfeeding.

(BOOOM!!! - brains splatter all over the walls)

ugh, that's such shit. thanks for the link, thenewguy, i'm definitely writing. shite.

Absolutely absurd. This is why you can't trust anyone anymore.

thats bullcrap they'll be getting a piece of my mind because its a natural process and there are educational videos about breastfeeding for new mom's and such; also in high school we were studying sex-linked dieseases in ninth grade and the teacher showed us some pictures of naked teens with the diseases and that was not considered child pornography

This just pisses me off so much I'm having trouble figuring out what to say. What keeps running through my head is "that poor family!" I mean, imagine... you're a new family that has recently moved into the country. You take some pictures of your kids, and you get arrested for it?? Then they have to deal with all this shit, including having their kids taken away! What I want to know is, after they get their kids back, is there any way they can sue or something? I'm not one for lawsuites unless they are truly justified, but the government screwed up, and tore apart this poor family. The family deserves to get something back in an attempt to apologize... like a large sum of money to help them improve their overall lives or something... seems like the LEAST they could do to try and make up for this. This kind of thing makes me want to start throwing things-preferably at the people who stuck their noses into stuff that wasn't their business, the police, and the people who broke up the family... Sorry I'm just ranting, but this pisses me off.

Land of the free and home of opportunity. Right.

Yeah, if you're born into a rich, white family; or if you become a famous musician.

This story get my blood bloiling a bit... I mean what does it say about the country we live in when the people in cotrol or power are making assinine decisions like this...

:mad:

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I hate child molesters.

I also hate people who go on witchhunts.

Without seeing the evidence, this appears to be a case of the later.

Unfortunately, this is not isolated to Texas, but they do seem to be particularly zealous.


Hint: Digital Cameras are nice, but a 'friend' can turn you in as well.

I believe the message here is that what we all know is "innocent" is considered guilty by a contingent of sex-negative people out there.

A reminder to be cautious is the lesson we can gain from this.

Of course it's absurd. Of course it's reprehensible. The point is there are people out there who think the exact opposite of what most of us know to be true.

if i had a child and its mother breastfed it i'd take pictures, too. it's A Moment. it's something that will never happen again, it's sacred.

as of it being 'porn'? that's stupid. now if she had a picture with the kid sucking other things, yeah, i'd be a tad bit worried.

what reallu pissess me off, though, is imagine the time and money wasted on this _innocent_ moment when the authorities let so many real child molesters run amok due to lack of fundings/time.

Oh fuck...
I think my mother then should be up on not just child porn, but on producing and distributing child porn.
Case 1: A naked photo of me when I was like 2 in a backyard inflatable swimming pool. She had copies made and given to relatives.
Case 2: at my 16th, she showed a homemade video of my 4th birthday party, where I was naked waist down.

So, what athorities do I ring to have me given to a foster family? Does the fact I'm 22 matter?

Yes ladies and gentlemen that was sarcasm. It's pretty obvous, but just in case any magistrates read it, they may not pick it up. They seem to be pretty fucking thick!

"I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?"

The only thing wrong with this is the humiliation the kids will have to endure when they bring their dates home to meet their parents.

As for the sex-police? Get a life...

what is the reason for someone to report these kinds of things, much less take it al the way to court?

that is messed up. I bet they'll buy digital next time.

unless they're being explicitly touched or anything like that, i dont think this could be classified as porn

Three words: Oh. My. God.

This story is so sad :( I sincerely hope that they get their children back.

well the problem is - it's not about our opinion.

It's important to be informed about what sort of perceptions can move investigative and legal agents to action.

Doctor holds up "inkblot" picture: "what do you see?"
Patient: Sex.
Doctor holds up a picture of a dog. Patient: sex.
Doctor holds up a picture of a tree. Patient: sex.
Ball: sex.
House: sex.

doctor: you're obsessed with sex
patient: well you're the guy showing all the dirty pictures

:(

Waste of resources.

Though most processing places are supposed to turn in pornographic pictures, or simply not return them, I think that they took it a bit too far with this case of a mother and young children...

My first reaction is one of outrage and indignance. Words like "witch hunt" and "nazi" have permeated this thread, and I would agree with them. The sanctity of the family is being violated here. However...one part of the article that really stuck out for me was this; <i>To Richardson police, who arrived at the store that afternoon and apparently made up their minds from the content of the pictures alone, this was nothing short of a felony case of child pornography. "We thought they contained sexuality," says Sergeant Danny Martin, a Richardson police spokesman, explaining why two Richardson police detectives began pursuing a criminal case. <b>"If you saw the photos, you'd know what I mean." </i></b> Without actually seeing those pictures I am not qualified to render an opinion on this issue.

And yet...another part of the article seems to glare out; <i>Five days later, when a state child welfare investigator and two detectives arrived at her house, Mercado again insisted that she saw nothing wrong with the photos. She allowed the group to search the couple's cramped room, and the detectives went through everything, including their photo albums, apparently looking for more evidence of child porn. <b>They found nothing.</i></b>

<b>THEY FOUND NOTHING</b>

This is sad. It's more evidence that we are heading into a world of sexually malformed half-people.

Children are being convicted of sex offences, mothers for taking photos of the most natural acts possible.

This sort of activity reinforces the thought that the nude form is evil or bad, or always sexual. Welcome to the path of neurosis, eating disorder and emotional ruin.

On your left, ashcroft covering statues, on your right a mob in the uk attacking and beating a known paediatrician in the street.

It is time we reconsider our sexual morals just to prevent the high mental toll we pay for this refusal to accept who we are.

That's crazy. And so is this case. When did we lose common sense?

"Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em that's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard"

Bet you weould never see this in Europe.

North Americans are so stuck up about any sort of nudity. Americans even moreso than Canadians.

This is so crazy. I feel so bad for the family. And they still don't have there children back, that is so sad. I really don't know what to think about the world that we live in today. I think I would sue. After they found nothing and they still took the kids away. This is terrible. I am sadden by this story.

Exactly. The people who looked at those pictures and saw something sexual are the real pedophiles in this situation.