It's easy to distinguish a Kodak moment from kiddie porn, said Lenore Skenazy in Free Range Kids. But that didn't help an Arizona couple who asked Wal-Mart to develop a batch of photos that included some bathtime snapshots of their girls, who were then ages 5, 4, and 1. A Wal-Mart employee called police, the state took custody of the kids until the child pornography investigation was completed, and now, with good reason, the parents are suing.
There's another side to the story, said Dustin Gardiner in The Arizona Republic. The parents—Lisa and Anthony "A.J." Demaree—are also suing the town of Peoria, Ariz., but local officials say the police were just doing their job. Peoria says police had to investigate after the officer who filed the first report said "several of the pictures depicted close-up views of the girls' genitalia."
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