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Couple’s innocent bath-time photos of kids set off a 10-year legal saga
WaPo ^ | January 24, 2018 | Derek Hawkins

Posted on 01/25/2018 2:39:29 AM PST by LouieFisk

In 2008, the couple took their three daughters, then ages 5, 4 and 1½, on a vacation to San Diego. They snapped more than 100 photos during the trip, like parents do, including several of the girls playing together during bath time. When they returned to their home in Peoria, Ariz., they dropped the camera’s memory stick off at a Walmart for developing.

Within a day, a police detective came knocking.

A Walmart employee had flagged the bath-time photos as pornographic, the detective told the parents. One showed the girls wrapped in towels with their arms around each other; another showed their exposed bottoms.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; overzealous; parents; prosecution
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This is insane. I imagine every family has naked toddler on a bearskin rug or bathtime type pics in their photoalbums. (Full Title:"How an Arizona couple’s innocent bath-time photos of their kids set off a 10-year legal saga")
1 posted on 01/25/2018 2:39:29 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

not paying to read


2 posted on 01/25/2018 2:46:46 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

“not paying to read”

Odd, I’m not hitting a paywall. Maybe because I use adblocking.


3 posted on 01/25/2018 2:50:37 AM PST by LouieFisk
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This is BS!!! Heck every Baby Boomer had the obligatory “Butt Shot” on a blanket.

Get a Frick’ing life photo nazi’s!!!

TC- Ya better hide/burn all them pics of the Young'un's.

4 posted on 01/25/2018 2:55:08 AM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congressl)
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To: yldstrk

It didn’t charge me a thing.

Porn is distressingly common now. Arguably a prudent move is to avoid doing something that could leak and be misused. A less imperious government could have warned the family, including the risk that someone, even the kids themselves or a friend or acquaintance, might later misuse the pictures, and then been on its way.

And yet because the social workers were unwise, it makes it easier now for porn mongers to get a pass. Better wisdom by choice than to have it forced by a court.


5 posted on 01/25/2018 2:59:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/how-an-arizona-couples-bath-time-photos-of-their-kids-set-off-a-10-year-legal-saga

Link to read without paying


6 posted on 01/25/2018 3:06:18 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: mabarker1

Well, my parents have long since passed on, so they can’t be touched!
Besides we have a bigger problem with adult politicians and their odd proclivity to distribute their “Weiner” pics, heh.


7 posted on 01/25/2018 3:09:06 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

WP lets you read so many articles per month free.


8 posted on 01/25/2018 3:12:42 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Arguably a prudent move is to avoid doing something that could leak and be misused.”

Nah - this is a matter of not using basic common sense and an over-the-top reaction to something most people wouldn’t give a half a hoot about.
The authorities need to get real and chill out on things such as this. It’s the dumb teens and even dumber adults who need to stop taking nekkid pics of themselves and sending ‘em all over the planet.


9 posted on 01/25/2018 3:15:25 AM PST by LouieFisk
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“WP lets you read so many articles per month free.”

Well, that would explain it, since I only read a story there maybe once or twice a month!
:^)


10 posted on 01/25/2018 3:17:39 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: yldstrk; HiTech; redneck; LouieFisk; Chode; Tax-chick
“The social workers did not have reasonable cause to believe the children were at risk of serious bodily harm or molestation,” a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit wrote in a 47-page opinion.

The girls were in greater danger of molestation in the hands of the government than their own parents.

11 posted on 01/25/2018 3:18:00 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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not paying to read

Open it up in an incognito window. Right click on the link and select "Open link in incognito window":


12 posted on 01/25/2018 3:18:33 AM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: LouieFisk

It isn’t yesteryear.


13 posted on 01/25/2018 3:21:10 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“It isn’t yesteryear.”

Meaning? I’m not sure what you’re focused on there.


14 posted on 01/25/2018 3:24:34 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: mabarker1
but pizzagate gets a pass
15 posted on 01/25/2018 4:01:45 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Pontiac

100%


16 posted on 01/25/2018 4:02:31 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: LouieFisk
“It isn’t yesteryear.”

Meaning? I’m not sure what you’re focused on there.

He means that 40-50 years ago no one thought a negative thing about a pix of a naked baby, because no one thought about pedophiles {they were very rare, because if found out, they were 'disappeared'}.

My brother was home on leave from the Navy when my daughter was one year old and he brought her a {tot sized} Navy hat and blouse.

We took her pix with the hat, blouse, no pants, pack of Camel cigarettes and bottle of JTS Brown {my brother's favorite bourbon}, cutest baby pix you've ever seen.

Every family member that has ever seen that pix never gave a second thought that a one year old had no pants on.

In today's warped world, you could get 15 years in the slammer, just for possession of such a pix...BTW, the pix is long gone, it was lost in a flood that also took about a dozen of my guns.

17 posted on 01/25/2018 4:08:21 AM PST by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: USS Alaska

Kind of like the Coppertone billboards, back when children weren’t considered sex objects.


18 posted on 01/25/2018 4:12:39 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: LouieFisk

I can see the need to be paranoid over what our crazy culture would come unglued over. Recently I had some super 8 movies of Vietnam converted to DVD. Not remembering what was in them caused me a little concern over the various “police” that would find content objectionable.


19 posted on 01/25/2018 4:14:08 AM PST by redfreedom
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This “common sense” thing you refer to only works for like minded thinkers in your particular bubble. Forty or fifty years ago your remark would be spot on, as our culture was pretty much unified. With the left’s diversity and multiculturalism all coupled with a rabid MSM, you can be crucified for just about anything.

Some day this will all come to a boil, and that’s when we will thank our dear Lord for the 2A.


20 posted on 01/25/2018 4:21:02 AM PST by redfreedom
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