AZ - Couple Sues Wal-Mart for Calling Cops Over Bath Time Photos
 

The world has gone mad. :(

yeah that was up north here

that looked like the walmart by my old pace in Peoria where they said it was in peoria haha..

Crazy but ya these days you can't take family pictures of your kids without being judged.. it's sad..

this is nuts - i hope they win and get millions. getting your children taken away for bathtime pictures, how absurd is that??

Stupid retards at Wal-Mart... someone who thinks they are child porn must think like a pedophile to begin with....

I hope the parents win their lawsuits.

u gotta be an idiot to try to sue walmart. even a billionaire would lose a nice chunk of change in that effort. im sure their action was in their TOS. pedos should process their own film lol

yep yep:)

Fucking crazy.

parents are getting paid

:2 cents::2 cents:

You've got to be an idiot to make a stupid post like this.

That is crazy....

taking pictures of your child taking a bath is not pedo.

my mom did it, and your mom prolly did too.

having your children taken away is not laughing matter when youve done nothing wrong but take innocent life pictures.

wow i watched videos,.... so some fucking doctor got to look inside these childrens vaginas but taking a pic of child is bad? they did physical exams of these kids and put them through more abuse than those innocent photos!

amazing....

wow .....

Back in the 1980's, I worked in a commercial photo lab. I did everything from receiving film, to splicing film, to processing/developing the film, printing the film and finally inspecting the prints. Pretty much all the 35mm, 26mm, 110mm and Disc prints for all major drugstores in the northeast US.

Print inspection was the hardest because you were streaming thousands of pictures before your eyes, watching for anything troubling of a sexual nature, or printing errors that needed reprint. Nudity was NEVER a big issue whatsoever, never. The only thing that was a big issue, was sexual contact when one or more participant was deemed to be underage. Those we'd mark, cut out of the roll, and turn into the police for them to decide to investigate further or not.

Now first of all I want to ask, who the heck these days still uses a film camera? Second, for someone to think that kids in the tub or bathroom is "sexual" in nature should go directly to a fucking doctor because they are fucking crazy and repressed and have serious issues with understanding what sexuality is.

I cannot imagine how traumatizing that was for those 3 little girls.

If you watched the clip. you would have your answer : they didn't ....

( FYI, people send digital files to be printed ... ).

Note: 26 mm ... I think you had a typo : 16 mm

We're losing the battle people. We're losing.

Ah, I did watch the clip but I didnt see it was a digital, lol. They need a home printer!

When I say 26, I'm referring to the "126" catridges, the actual film comes out nearer to 28mm square, but it was still called 26, or 126.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/126_film

I hope the family wins their case.

good luck to them winning a fuck ton of money. walmart should burn over this one

This has got to be the most retarded reply I have possibly ever saw on gfy. I'm nearly speechless, firstly you want to make a joke about children who are taken away from their family for no real reason, secondly you want to make a joke about 3 children who were forced to undergo a medical examination to inspect if they were assaulted or not, thirdly you want to make a joke about pedo's setting up their own photo lab so they can get away with what they are doing.

Like, honestly what the fuck is wrong with you.

You should be taken, beaten within an inch of your life, preferably by people who have gone through this nightmare and then re asked about your stance.

What parent doesn't take pics of their kids in the bathtub? It doesn't mean you're a pervert. They look cute, covered in soap and suds. Kids grow up so fast, it's those moments you want to preserve, to get teary eyed over 30 yrs from then.

My parents took pics of me in the bathtub and they didn't get arrested. What is wrong with people in america today??

When I read what he posted I was thinking the exact same thing.

This shit is fucking retarded. Seriously. As if people flip out over this. Who didn't have naked pics of them when they were a baby? When I was growing up I had to live with a fucking picture of me running naked through the yard with my little wanger flopping in the wind hanging right on the living room wall! Seriously.

Soon people aren't going to be able to change their kid's diapers without being accused of child molestation...

The report stated that they dropped off digital images to be printed. Which even doing that I would think is expensive. My wife has a little photo printer and she is constantly printing photos herself to send to relatives.

This is not the first time children have been removed from the parents over "innocent" pictures...and probably won't be the last. Unfortunately I do not remember the results of previous incidents like this...or even if law suits were filed. I do recall that in at least one incident it was policy...for any and all pictures of nude children...to be turned over to the authorities...and I suspect it may be policy at Walmart...and if it is the parents will probably lose the law suit...unless Walmart simply decides to settle the case.

Well...I just now watched the video and it stated that it is Walmart policy.

So ridiculous. I hope they win a nice chunk of change.

Although, the state had to act by law, common sense should have prevailed. A social worker should have came over that same week and resolve any issue.

I hope they win a large chunk of cash.

According to the video report the photos in question were of "3 young girls in provocative positions with their genitals exposed"

I wouldn't take pictures of my children naked in the bath, and I wouldn't want to see pictures of other peoples' children naked in the bath.

When our parents' did this in the past, they didn't know that the world was full of sickos who would derive pleasure from naked children.

I do not think walmart did wrong to refer this to the police to allow them to investigate and rule on this. Doing nothing would have been wrong.

:2 cents:

thats were things have gotten fucked in the state attorneys office. they saw an easy win in court and went after the numbers so that they could later get elected to higher positions or get hired by a big ffirm.. The ONLY ones who had little discretion was the actual arresting officer. Most likely even he was told to do it by someone else.

Welcome to the The United Police States of America.

No, doing nothing would have been RIGHT. There is a supreme idiocy taking over the land and it's all the same old song and dance! If you have rule that says "I'll know it when I see it" and your normal life is floor length dresses and head coverings, then you're going to "know it when you see" a bare ankle.

People in this industry SHOULD be uniquely qualified to see where this shit jumped the shark, and it was in this MORON employees perverted backwards stunted vision of what is OBSCENE and what is INNOCENT.

Let me try to be even more clear: the person who saw naked children as SEXUAL *is* the PERVERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My wife said the same thing. I concur with that statement.

There was a story recently where a man hugged and kissed his daughter at a park and was arrested for child molestation. Then they learned the man was the childs father. Oops.

Was that "right"? Better play it safe, right? COULD have prevented something. Right? right.

Ridiculous post.

So the employee, his supervisor, their manager (all who would have had to have been involved before the police were called), the attending police office, his superiors including the DA's office, AND the television news people who referred to the poses as "provocative" are ALL perverts, but you have decided that the parents that I presume you don't know from Adam, are not even guilty of acting irresponsibly in taking these photos.......based on what exactly?

Oh I see.....because you work in porn and people in PORN should know right?

The employee did the right thing in reporting it. If his judgement HAVING SEEN THE SNAPS (which we have not) was that they were inappropriate wh are you to cal him a pervert?

He referred the matter up, and it seems many people agreed with him. If not SOMEBODY wold have said to him "what is the matter with you, there is nothing wrong with that"

There are battles to fight against the moral majority and the way society is going, but this isn't one of them.

Awful story.

I don't really blame it on the $6 an hour monkey at wal-mart though.

Its the police / social services that should all be fired, stupid idiots.

Yes. I'm right, you and all of them are wrong. I thought I was clear on that point?

EVERYONE of those idiots agrees NOW that they acted too swiftly by the way, or werent you aware of that?

Check this story out:
"An Italian man has landed in hot water with authorities after he was spotted kissing his 8-year-old daughter at a beach resort in Brazil.

The man, 48, was arrested Sept. 2 and could face eight to 15 years in prison if convicted under Brazil's strict new laws designed to prevent foreigners from coming to the country to have sex with children.

A Brazilian couple told police they saw the man touching a young girl inappropriately and kissing her on the mouth at a swimming pool in front of other tourists at the resort in Fortazela, northeastern Brazil, the BBC reported Monday.

The man's wife, who is Brazilian, says the whole thing is a misunderstanding, and that witnesses misinterpreted the interaction between an older, foreign white man and a dark-skinned young girl. She told a Brazilian news outlet that she had been present during the whole time the incident is said to have occurred.

Staff at the resort have also been reported as saying they saw nothing unusual, according to the BBC.

The man remains in police custody, and Italian authorities are attempting to secure his release, the BBC reported. "


edit: oh and by the way, all of the images with the kids faces etc blocked out have been online and on tv for a couple of days now. Every person has probably half a dozen similar images in their family photo album.

Oh and something else to consider. Also in the same batch of photo's are pictures of the family playing together. Is it in the walmart manual of print inspection to watch for patterns that are known to exist with families, or better still, pedophiles? Do they train their idiots with actual facts and case studies, or just leave it up to their QUESTIONABLE (I'm being too nice) opinion of what is "right" or "wrong"? I think the latter, and thats the problem (obviously right? dont you agree that this was a mistake? so what do you acknowledge needs to be learned from this MISTAKE?)

Agreed. Innocent childhood photos taken by their own parents would only be seen as obscene by someone with some problems of their own.

Having said that...... I would think at this point in the sad evolution of this madness people would be aware that such pics are a bad idea. :2 cents:

Fear is the ultimate motivator.

It's almost illegal to be a human male.

These stories are too common now days.

A few months ago at the McDonalds out here a guy's toddler was in the play area and climbed up into one of those tubes in their jungle gym thing and wouldn't come out.

The guy climbed up to try to get his kid and before he climbed back down the cops were there. Someone called and said a man was trying to abduct or molest children in the play area.

Fortunately the cops were smart enough to realize what happened, of course only after the guy and his kid were harrassed and humiliated.

What we need are laws to protect us from stupid and paranoid people. :2 cents:

You are missing the point completely.

The main "mistake" here is that the parents acted irresponsibly in taking such photos of their children, and a FEMALE photo technician thought the photos were inappropriate and took the CORRECT action in reporting it upwards through many people who also agreed.

Even though IN THIS CASE after investigation, the family were not believed to have had any bad intent, there are many cases where intent IS found, and if people are scared to do their jobs and report questionable material, then who will win then?

Whatever your anti-police, anti wall-mart, or pro let people do what they want ideals, the parents DID make a very serious mis-judgement in taking those photos, and if not checked who knows where this would have ended up? If you read the report in full, it also says not only that there were many such photos and videos on their pc but also

"ABC News was able to obtain access to four of the photos. There are still nine other photographs which were not released because the Demarees' lawyer said that the photos were intended for private home use and showing them to outside parties would violate the law for distribution of child pornography."

That is THEIR OWN LAWYER'S opinion on the photos.....

You are far too blinkered in this matter, and comparing this case to a guy IN ITALY who hugged and kissed his child in a park is totally irrelevant.

Also, far from everybody "admitting they acted too swiftly", I saw:

"The Police and prosecutors insist they did what they thought was appropriate."

and

"The city of Peoria also states that it stands behind the appropriate actions of their officers."

which is a bit different.

No doubt there is more to this story than EITHER of us know, but all I have ever been commenting is that I believe that the lady in wall-mart acted correctly when finding what she considered inappropriate material and I hope that she and other people working in that line of work will continue to do so as if doing so stops even one paedophile it is worth it...

and before the inevitable response of "what if it was you and your children?", I have already stated that I wouldn't take naked pictures of my cildren.

lagcam, you are WRONG. I explained already that I used to be paid professional photo inspector who was TRAINED in what to watch for and DID report ACTUAL PEDOPHILIA to police. Perhaps that will make an actual impression on you, perhaps not.

There was NOTHING WRONG with the bathtime photo's! NOTHING! YOU and the walmart employee and ALL of the chain of command and police in this case ARE wrong for thinking so. That IS the outcome of this, now whether or not anyone changes their WRONG mind about it knowing how WRONG they were in the beginning is NOT something I'll be holding my breath over.

Now those children have suffered ABUSE by the medical examinations and other shit that WHO KNOWS what happened during the time they were MISTAKENLY TAKEN from their parents.

Again, if you cant tell obscene from innocent, you should really not be judging someone elses. How can you be in the adult industry when so much of it's legality is on this "I'll know it when I see it" and have such a perverted vision of what is right and wrong?

Also, are you claiming that turning in photos for printing is the same as publishing them to the public?


Oh, and by the way, the article about the brazil incident is perfectly relevant to my POINT that some people are IDIOTS with incredibly POOR JUDGEMENT when it comes to what is right and wrong!

Hey, do me a favor. Go to google and type

bathtime photos

now click IMAGES. Call the cops.

we're definitely getting there.