Facebook Photo of White Man with Black Child's Body Shocks South Africa

IBTimes ^ | August 28, 2011 | IBTimes Staff Reporter

[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.

[SuzyQue]

Holder’s people? I dunno, that’s a bit of a stretch. But, who the heck knows in the times we’re living in?

[lefty-lie-spy]

Its more than obvious to anyone but an investigator or an alarmist that this is a fake photo. Sure it is in bad taste, but damn you liberals, get a grip. I can’t believe this is actually news.

[SuzyQue]

Reading the article in The Blaze, the photo is from 2007, and it was a racist pig who posed the child and then had himself photographed. So, someone is using racist pig stuff from 2007 to stir up trouble now. Two wrongs making an even bigger wrong.

[cripplecreek]

The crazy thing is that a Hollywood Director could do exactly the same thing for a movie and make millions.

[Ronin]

Fake or not, it’s still pretty sickening.

[SuzyQue]

Yeah, well, I don’t watch horror movies. I think they’re bad for the soul.

[Graybeard58]

For ten bucks, I’d lay down and let somebody pretend they shot me.....Maybe less than that.

[GeronL]

I figured it was fake from the start, I don’t envy the SA cops trying to track us all down.

[cripplecreek]

I’ve never been a fan of horror movies either. They don’t frighten me or anything, I just don’t see anything attractive about slaughter.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I think you got something there.
They’re busy little ankle biter bas****.

And that racist pig needs to be put away.
He’s one sick ahole.

[cripplecreek]

For $20 you can tie me to the roof of the car and drive me around town.

[FreedomPoster]

LOLOL! Perfect.

[BykrBayb]

I got paid $1 to be made up like a zombie and wander the streets with a bunch of other extras for movie.

[kearnyirish2]

Maybe he was a Tutsi warrior, and he killed the child because he was a Hutu.

Oh wait, that would be black genocide against another tribe of blacks.

How are they doing investigating the 800,000 REAL cases from Rwanda 1994?

Anything?

I think we’re supposed to react to the fake photo by giving our African president another term, and sending more free laptops to African kids...

I wonder if the Aryan got his gun from our ATF’s gunrunning scheme?

[cynwoody]

You realize we are all going to be brought to trial in SA for seeing this pic!!!

In that case, I hereby bump this thread for the express purpose of increasing the likelihood it will be viewed within South Africa. I have nothing but contempt for those who fail to observe the First Amendment, whether or not it's on their books.

[BUGSWOL]

This photo shopped picture is an outrage but I’ve see real crime scene photos of White children in South Africa with their skull split open, their bodies chopped in half and their skin burned off. I’ve see pictures of White women who were raped and hung upside down and gutted. I saw one that I found particularly disturbing of a beautiful young White South African woman impaled on a broom. None of these photos caused an outrage in the press. No MSM media outlet picked up on Nelson Mandela singing kill the White. (It is available on youtube. Do a search with the words Mandela sings kill whites)

Why do you think that is?

Because anti-racism is just a codeword for anti-white.

[BUGSWOL]

Ping

[OldNewYork]

Thanks for the ping. Not a surprising over-reaction from officialdom there, who have plenty of other things to worry about, including protecting the lives of their Afrikaner farmers, who have been targeted at a rate even alarming the UN, but what was this Japie thinking?

[gussiefinknottle]

yes, and i couldn’t understand why they
were investigating photo of michael jackson.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The focus between the man and child is too different from one another even given the relative position to each other. It's a fake. The authorities should be looking for who posted the picture, not who is in the picture. Could be posted by black supremacists to incite hate against the whites.