When did bath time become pornography?

Let’s face it, most of our parents have pictures of us and our siblings as little kids in the bathtub with bubbles piled high and hair spiked high with shampoo. But when did these innocent little pictures become child pornography?

A family of five just found themselves asking this question when their three daughters, 18 months, 4 and 8 were taken away for a month. The couple took a few pictures of their daughters in the bath tub and then in towels after they got out. The film was then dropped off at a local Walmart where the employee who developed the photos reported them to the police.

The police showed up at there door on a normal Saturday afternoon and after ransacking the house took the kids away for a month. Both parents’ names were put on the national sex offender’s registry and the mother was even suspended from her job as a teacher.

An interview was done with the grandparents of the three girls where they showed a few of the pictures that were “suspicious.” In these pictures the girls had towel wrapped around them but still called inappropriate. They also went on to say that only gave these pictures fearing that if they showed the pictures of the girls naked in the tub they would be arrested as well. One picture is with one of the girls wrapped in a towel smiling away with her father hugging her and the police ruled that “child erotica.”

The girls are now back with their parents after they sued Walmart, the state and court system. A supreme court ruled that the pictures were completely innocent and got the kids back where they belonged with their parents.

When I see things like this I really do get worried. When did a father holding his child wrapped in a towel, both of them smiling away, become porn? There are pictures in my home of me and my brother as kids splashing away in the bath tub and shaping each others hair into mohawks with bubbles; does that make my parents pedophiles for taking those pictures? Absolutely not. It’s actually quite ridiculous because the police were so busy tearing that family apart that they miss things where kids are actually being abused.



http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/09/22/pn.bathtime.photos.cnn