Hi all,
This is just a short post to let you know about another danger for parents that I came across over a week ago.
Bathtime photos of US couple Lisa and Aj Demaree's resulted in a great ordeal for this happy family.
In 2008 while the couple was on holiday in San Diego, they took more than 100 photos of their three daughters, then 5 years, 4 years and 18 months old. They were photos that were taken of the girls playing at bathtime.
AJ and Lisa Demaree's three daughters were taken into protective custody 10 years ago after innocent bathtime photos were viewed as potential child pornography.
These photos depicting an utterly innocent family moment was the start of a decade-long legal ordeal. The next day a detective come knocking on their door. He told the parents that the Walmart employee thought the bathtime photos to be pornographic and report it to the police. Some of the pictures were like the one above showing the girls with their towels wrapped around them and another one where the girls were lying on their towels with their naked bottoms.
The Demarees said they were harmless shots of the children goofing around, no different than what you'd expect to find in any family scrapbook. But police and social workers launched a full-blown sex abuse investigation, raiding the couple's home and putting the girls in protective custody for a month while they interviewed dozens of family members and friends about whether the Demarees were child sex offenders.
It was a nightmare, it was unbelievable, Lisa Demaree said through tears in an interview with ABC News a year after the raid. "I was in so much disbelief. I started to hyperventilate. I tried to breathe it out."
The children's exams came back normal, showing no signs of abuse, and the girls were returned to their parents.
In this case, I suppose the parents had money to start a legal battle against the detective and the two social workers who took the children away.
After a 10 year battle this was the outcome:
On Tuesday, after a series of defeats in the case, a federal appeals court affirmed what the Demarees have argued all along: that their children were taken from them for no good reason.
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. “Therefore, viewing the record most favorably to the Demarees, the defendants acted unconstitutionally in taking the three children away from home without judicial authorization.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/24/arizona-bath-time-photos-child-protective-services/
It is unclear to me if the parents got any compensations and what did this 10-year long battle cost them?
So parents be warned, this is also what happened because of these innocent family photos.
The parents were not arrested nor charged with any crimes, and a juvenile court never adjudicated the girls abused or neglected, as the appeals court ruling stated. But Lisa was suspended from her job at a school for a year, and the couple’s names were included on a sex offender registry, as ABC News reported.
“As crazy as it may seem,” Lisa Demaree told the network, “what you may think are the most beautiful innocent pictures of your children may be seen as something completely different and completely perverted.”
Also I come across this in my research for this post:
AN ARIZONA LAW THAT WON unanimous approval in the state legislature this year could send parents to prison with a felony conviction if they share bathtime baby photos, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/24/larizona-revenge-porn-law-bathtub-baby-photos-felony
By Steven Nelson, Staff Writer Sept. 24, 2014, at 2:52 p.m.
Note that the law is not about taking innocent pictures of your children, it is about sharing it.
So have you ever share photos of your children or maybe somebody else's children on social media? This can have serious consequences for you and if you have children, you may even lose your children. If you think about that there are sick paedophiles out there that will be aroused by such innocent pics of your children.
My conclusion is that you should rather not share innocent nude pictures of your children. You cannot afford to take that risk!
Sources: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/24/arizona-bath-time-photos-child-protective-services/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/100865288/How-US-couples-innocent-bath-time-photos-of-kids-set-off-10-year-legal-saga
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/24/larizona-revenge-porn-law-bathtub-baby-photos-felony
Thank you for reading and I really hope that if you did this sort of thing in the past that you will re-think it.
Support 
Also remember I have a show on MSPwaves.com/listen on Sundays at 7 pm UTC where I frequently talk a bit about