Parents lose custody of children for a month after innocent bathtime photos developed at Walmart, page 1

An Arizona couple are suing Walmart after they developed their vacation snaps & wrongly decided that some were of a pedophilic nature and reported them to the police. The couple lost custody of their 3 daughters for a month and their names went on a central sex offenders.

A Walmart employee, unhappy over the content of several bath time pictures, contacted bosses with concerns that they may have been images of child pornography.

Instead of receiving a batch of happy memories of a fun family outing, the couple were reported to the police and their children were placed into the care of the Arizona Child Protective Services Agency.

It was a month before the girls were returned to their parents, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled the photographs were in fact harmless and a medical exam revealed no signs of sexual abuse.

Daily Mail

The story is also reported here ABC News

The photos were simple childhood nudity taken on holiday. In particular a number were bath time photos and three were of the girls lying on a towel naked with their arms around each other. The Walmart employees decided that these were pornographic in some sense.

The couple are suing Walmart for damages and to recover $75,000 in legal fees they incurred defending themselves.



Apparently you can't take pictures of your own children in the bath anymore without running the danger of Child Protection Services seizing your kids and putting your name on a sex offenders register.

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I guess Walmart would consider me a hardened criminal as I have cute bathtub pics of both of my kids when they were little as well as of my grandkid. Heck, you better add my mother to the criminal list too as she has bathtub pics of me and my sister. It's a good thing my granny has passed on, or Walmart would have to add her to the list as well.....

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I have heard from a friend of mine that there are some sites which expose children and they make tons of money by selling the pictures and movies to their clients!...You cant blame people to be a little suspicious of nude kiddy pictures.

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It was a month before the girls were returned to their parents, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled the photographs were in fact harmless and a medical exam revealed no signs of sexual abuse.

Unbelievable! The state intruded and molested the children to be sure they were not molested.

Originally posted by shapur
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I have heard from a friend of mine that there are some sites which expose children and they make tons of money by selling the pictures and movies to their clients!...You cant blame people to be a little suspicious of nude kiddy pictures.

You need to shut your mouth.
This incident went far beyond a "little" suspicion.

Maybe if these state authorities had done a little investigating before traumatizing these kids i could understand your argument, but as it stands...forget it, you obviously dont understand what your defending...

Originally posted by ollncasino
An Arizona couple are suing Walmart after they developed their vacation snaps & wrongly decided that some were of a pedophilic nature and reported them to the police. The couple lost custody of their 3 daughters for a month and their names went on a central sex offenders.

A Walmart employee, unhappy over the content of several bath time pictures, contacted bosses with concerns that they may have been images of child pornography.

Instead of receiving a batch of happy memories of a fun family outing, the couple were reported to the police and their children were placed into the care of the Arizona Child Protective Services Agency.

It was a month before the girls were returned to their parents, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled the photographs were in fact harmless and a medical exam revealed no signs of sexual abuse.

Daily Mail

The story is also reported here ABC News

The photos were simple childhood nudity taken on holiday. In particular a number were bath time photos and three were of the girls lying on a towel naked with their arms around each other. The Walmart employees decided that these were pornographic in some sense.

The couple are suing Walmart for damages and to recover $75,000 in legal fees they incurred defending themselves.



Apparently you can't take pictures of your own children in the bath anymore without running the danger of Child Protection Services seizing your kids and putting your name on a sex offenders register.

edit on 9-3-2013 by ollncasino because: (no reason given)

You know there are a lot of strange people in the world, but I really doubt the photos we are shown are the ones that worried Wal-Mart employees. Surely the photo person asked the supervisor and more then one person was concerned for the children.

I have bath time photo pf my girl at 3 and her little brother, but I know that now days so many people are greedy enough to sell pictures of their little ones for money. it is almost epidemic and sadly they sometimes become more and more involved in the porn until they lose all perspective of hurting their kids.

I would rather people start protecting and nipping in the bud the abuse going on in one out of 10 home in some counties.

Yes it is bad that the kids were taken away and checked for physical abuse and I would hope for questioning about how often these photos were taken...no I do not for a moment believe that bath pictures in towels with sisters and Dad were the cause.

Originally posted by RadicalRebel

Originally posted by shapur
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I have heard from a friend of mine that there are some sites which expose children and they make tons of money by selling the pictures and movies to their clients!...You cant blame people to be a little suspicious of nude kiddy pictures.

You need to shut your mouth.
This incident went far beyond a "little" suspicion.

Maybe if these state authorities had done a little investigating before traumatizing these kids i could understand your argument, but as it stands...forget it, you obviously dont understand what your defending...

You need to realize many people here don't have your opinions and can speak as they please and you have NO right to tell people to "shut their mouth"!

Originally posted by Wifibrains
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It was a month before the girls were returned to their parents, after a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled the photographs were in fact harmless and a medical exam revealed no signs of sexual abuse.

Unbelievable! The state intruded and molested the children to be sure they were not molested.

You know there is a major wave of crime involving kids and they don't have to be molested for it to be happening.

In this day I would think parents would be smart enough not to take nude photos with their little ones since there is such a disgusting appetite for those pictures by the depraved who are very willing to pay just to view them.

Personally I would feel the horror of people thinking I did something like sell pictures of my kids but i would be glad someone gives a darn about the kids too. An employee would not set off an alarm if the pictures were as sweet and as the article shows. imo

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