Yes, this is a 2003 case. I have also written about it and had a few
conversations with her lawyer when it was happening. Terrible incident even
though the charges were ultimately dropped.
Yours,
Jake Marcus, J.D.
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:09:48 +1000, Karleen Gribble
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>No, it's real...happened a few years ago now. I've cited this case in
>papers.
>Karleen
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Morgan Gallagher" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:23 PM
>Subject: Woman Charged with Child Pornography
>
>
>>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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