Posted on 08/30/2011 6:30:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Facebook picture that has sparked a police investigation: The authorities have asked members of the public who can identify the man in this picture to come forward to assist them in their investigation. The child's face is hidden to protect his identity.
According to the South Africa Sunday Times, which first reported the story, the search is now on for the person or persons responsible for the picture, for whoever created the user profile and for those who have seen the photograph but failed to report it.
Surprisingly, the photo was uploaded June 24, 2010, but went little noticed until now. It took more than a year to be spotted by authorities as none who saw the picture reported it or posted a comment condemning it.
Regardless of whether the picture is fake, "everyone party to the posting" and those who have viewed the image are under a potential prosecution threat, authorities said.
Human rights groups have expressed their concern for the child in the picture who could have been wounded or dead.
The director of Women + Men Against Child Abuse, Miranda Jordan, said she found it "incredibly disturbing" not knowing the child's fate.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing ... this is sickening and disgusting. Is this child hurt? Is he dead? Who would take this kind of picture?" she said. "This hate image incites racism that almost all South Africans have fought so hard to eradicate."
Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa's spokesman, Zweli Mnisi, said the minister has ordered an "immediate investigation" and called on the man in the picture - or anyone who recognized him - to come forward to assist in the probe.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
You realize we are all going to be brought to trial in SA for seeing this pic!!!
Thanks a lot MR!
Fake. The kid was likely paid to lay down.
It looks photoshopped to me. It doesn’t look right.
So obviously a PhotoShop, but let’s not let that get in the way of our demagoguery.
May have been photo-shopped.
Notice how through his right knee it almost appears as if you can see through it and see the background behind his right leg?
Notice how through his right knee it almost appears as if you can see through it and see the background behind his right leg?
What kind of creep would create a photo like this?
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I saw someone do this with a kitten, a real dead kitten as if they had hunted it. Pretty dumb.
If that kid was hit from a round from that rifle mid-section - he would have been cut in two...
What kind of creep? ... Holder’s people. Not black neighbors, Holder’s people. You know, the race hustling, hate-filled, ‘we’ll get even with whitey’ Holder’s people. And Holder, too!
Call me crazy, but based on the headline, I was expecting to see something different.
Geez, you never hear an outcry like this when the white farmers are being terrorized.
I’m just saying.......
Seems like I read just yesterday that the kid was paid to pose for the photo. I think I read it in the Blaze.
In any case, I’m not South African so the photo isn’t my problem.
A racist trouble making Ahole.
Doesn’t look military.
Photoshopped? Hard to tell. The knee does look weird.
The lighting seems to be right.
Guess the guy in the photo will have a lot a splainin’ to do.
Prank. Sick but still a prank.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/too-far-south-african-man-allegedly-paid-child-to-pose-as-dead-prey/
No you’re not crazy. I too was expecting a whole different photo.
calm the ef down, its a photoshop. no more, no less.
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