Parents Posting Kids' Pics Online the Center of TNT's Raising the Bar
You take an innocent picture of your child in the bathtub and post it on your personal website. Someone rips off the picture and sells it through a child porn site.
As a parent, are you legally responsible because you posted the picture on the Internet in the first place?
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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That's the question TNT's Raising the Bar posed. The "No Child's Left Behind" episode focuses on parents posting pictures of their children online and who's responsible when those pictures end up in the wrong hands.
Attorney Jerry Kellerman, played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar, defends a dad accused of possessing and promoting child porn. He's accused of "possession" because he took a picture of his son in the bathtub and "promoting" because he published the picture on his personal website. The state argues the dad did not protect his child since he published the picture online.
This is a timely topic, considering most mom bloggers love sharing pictures of their children online. A sweet picture of your child jumping in puddles topless on a rainy day could be stolen and published anywhere or even gawked at by someone who downloads the picture for personal viewing. Posting photos online always comes with risks parents need to know before making a snap decision.
I'm more scared of someone with ill intents just looking at my child. I post limited pictures of him, mainly on our password-protected family website, and I never write his name publicly. There are too many unknowns out there for me to feel comfortable sharing my son's life and pictures with everyone in the world.
How do you feel about this subject? Should parents be held responsible for every picture they post of their children online, no matter what?
Parents should be liable if they are posting naked pictures of their kids. Not everyone looking at a blog is a caring parent. Parents should want to protect their child’s privacy just as the government wants to protect them.
Moms and dads need to be wary of pics that could be questionable. It becomes a matter of interpretation.
I agree with Lee and Joanna. I am very careful about the pictures I take of my little ones, something I may consider sweet and innocent could be looked at as child porn and I do not ever want to be there!!! Nor do I ever want some cute picture I take to end up being viewed by a pervert(s). So we just have to remember the cute (shocking!!) times without them being a Kodak moment.
I watched this episode and it gave me great pause. I have long worried about this. Still don’t know what to do about it. I just try to be careful.
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