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
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> http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/News.php/2009/07/18/woman-charged-with-possession-of-child-p
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> Woman charged with possession of child pornography for taking
> photos of herself breastfeeding
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>
> 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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