I can't believe this is real.

Someone, anyone, tell me this is a hoax!

Morgan


        http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/News.php/2009/07/18/woman-charged-with-possession-of-child-p



        Woman charged with possession of child pornography for taking
        photos of herself breastfeeding


When does a snapshot of a mother breast-feeding her child become kiddie 
porn? Ask the Richardson police. The service was fast, the judgments 
even hastier. Never did Jacqueline Mercado imagine that four rolls of 
film dropped off at an Eckerd Drugs one-hour photo lab near her home 
would turn her life inside out, threaten to send her to jail and prompt 
the state to take away her kids. Jacqueline Mercado, a 33-year-old 
Peruvian immigrant, took a few photos of her young children at bath 
time. A week later, Richardson police were rummaging through her house 
for kiddie porn, and a state child welfare worker came to take her kids 
away. The photo in question: Jacqueline Mercado and Johnny Fernandez say 
they took this image last October to memorialize the breast-feeding 
stage of their son's life. Below: The Lucca Madonna, painted in the 15th 
century by the Dutch master Jan van Eyck. Defense lawyers argued that 
while breast-feeding images are a second-degree felony in Richardson, 
they are also on public display in the finest art museums in the world. 
For Mercado and her family, last fall was a happy time, one they wanted 
to record and save in the venerable tradition of the family photo. 
Johnny Fernandez, Mercado's boyfriend, had just emigrated from Lima, 
Peru, ending a yearlong separation, and on top of that, it was their 
son's first birthday.

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