Thank you very much for your comments.

The family's attorney Steven Lafuente was very surprised to see the innocence of the pictures and to discover that there was no other evidence whatsoever. Still, a Grand Jury swiftly indicted the couple in January [2003], basing their decision on the breastfeeding photo and no other incriminating evidence.
The charges against the couple were dropped in late March after a reporter from the Dallas Observer asked a District Attorney to look into the case. The children remained in State Custody however. When reporter Thomas Korosec broke the story in the Observer on April 17 [2003], the paper received some 50 letters and the courthouse and attorneys...

Thank you very much for your comments.

The family's attorney Steven Lafuente was very surprised to see the innocence of the pictures and to discover that there was no other evidence whatsoever. Still, a Grand Jury swiftly indicted the couple in January [2003], basing their decision on the breastfeeding photo and no other incriminating evidence.
The charges against the couple were dropped in late March after a reporter from the Dallas Observer asked a District Attorney to look into the case. The children remained in State Custody however. When reporter Thomas Korosec broke the story in the Observer on April 17 [2003], the paper received some 50 letters and the courthouse and attorneys were similarly flooded with mail. Members of a national attachment parenting organization flooded the offices with their own treasured breastfeeding and bath time photos. Only days after the story hit the stands, the children were returned to their mother.
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While the family tries to heal, the real crime is going entirely ignored. It is a sad statement of our new civilization when a photo store clerk, two police detectives, a CPS supervisor, and an entire grand jury have all forgotten how babies are fed, and are unable to appreciate the treasury of capturing the tender fleeting moments of childhood on film.

[Source: http://www.007b.com/breastfeeding_sexual.php]

This text abridges L. F. Palmer's report "Breastfeeding Crime" on BabyReference.com. For more detailed information, please go there.

Whether breastfeeding creates a pleasurable sensation or not has nothing to do with whether it is a 'sin' or not. Eating chocolate is accompanied by feelings of pleasure. The concept of 'sin' or if you prefer immorality is linked inextricably with the concept of doing harm to others.

Of course, depending what you believe, the above statement is a 'can of worms' because then we need to ask what harm a given sexual act really causes others and. above all, why. For example, if a ten year old stumbled on two twenty year olds having sex on the beach would there be harm? Why? Is the harm a product of socialization wherein that particular child has been brought up with the belief that sex is dir...

Whether breastfeeding creates a pleasurable sensation or not has nothing to do with whether it is a 'sin' or not. Eating chocolate is accompanied by feelings of pleasure. The concept of 'sin' or if you prefer immorality is linked inextricably with the concept of doing harm to others.

Of course, depending what you believe, the above statement is a 'can of worms' because then we need to ask what harm a given sexual act really causes others and. above all, why. For example, if a ten year old stumbled on two twenty year olds having sex on the beach would there be harm? Why? Is the harm a product of socialization wherein that particular child has been brought up with the belief that sex is dirty and that children need to be protected even from knowledge about sex? If the immorality of the act depends on anyone's particular socialization - meaning that someone else down the block may have been subjected to a very different socialization in which, say, she has been brought up with the belief that human sexuality is natural, beautiful, and healthy particularly when it is accompanied by intimacy - then who should the law be written for? While one person may be deeply damaged by the sight of an infant on its mama's breast another person might find it wonderful and it matters not even if hat person finds the sight deeply sensual because, yes, it is definitely dependent to the act of coitus. Again why is someone being turned on by something a cause for the law to get involved?

Obviously if we are talking about a less subjective act such as theft or physical assault the question concerning in whose interest the law should be written is far less difficult to answer. In this case it can easily be argued that the law isn't be written to cater to someone's particular belief system whether it be atheist or Fundamentalist Christian or Islam.

Now as far as if breastfeeding in public or taking a picture of the deed that becomes public is a sin or immoral, the answer and comple

MySpace.com Considers Breast-Feeding Mom 'Too Sexual'

A Tacoma mother facing a ban from the social networking site MySpace.com has been gaining support for pictures posted of her breast-feeding.

Melissa Rocks said the networking site has removed images from her profile of her nursing her baby because MySpace.com believes the images are “too sexual.”

Rocks, a mother of three, reposted the pictures, and again, they were taken down and the Web site threatened to delete her profile, she said.

“We’ve seen flagrantly sexual images on there that haven’t been removed after reported attempts to get the removed. Yet in one day my wife’s pictures are removed three times,” Rocks' husba...

MySpace.com Considers Breast-Feeding Mom 'Too Sexual'

A Tacoma mother facing a ban from the social networking site MySpace.com has been gaining support for pictures posted of her breast-feeding.

Melissa Rocks said the networking site has removed images from her profile of her nursing her baby because MySpace.com believes the images are “too sexual.”

Rocks, a mother of three, reposted the pictures, and again, they were taken down and the Web site threatened to delete her profile, she said.

“We’ve seen flagrantly sexual images on there that haven’t been removed after reported attempts to get the removed. Yet in one day my wife’s pictures are removed three times,” Rocks' husband said.

According to Rocks, a woman in Delaware has started an online petition to support her, and so far, 2,220 people have signed it.

KIRO Seattle (a video embedded)

Discussion

arifsali said:

Now you don't support this mother's right to flash breastfeeding baby on Myspace, do you?

I deprecate that MySpace.com, alleging the pictures were “too sexual”, removed the images from that mother's profile which showed her nursing her baby.

Because I wondered about your wording "to flash breastfeeding", I asked my dictionaries (I'm a German, you know). They say:

to flash, verb, transitive/intransitive

to display obtrusively and ostentatiously, to flaunt, to show off or display something in order to impress people

to expose body indecently in public (slang)

to expose one's breasts or genitals usually suddenly, briefly and intentionally in pub...

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arifsali said:

Now you don't support this mother's right to flash breastfeeding baby on Myspace, do you?

I deprecate that MySpace.com, alleging the pictures were “too sexual”, removed the images from that mother's profile which showed her nursing her baby.

Because I wondered about your wording "to flash breastfeeding", I asked my dictionaries (I'm a German, you know). They say:

to flash, verb, transitive/intransitive

to display obtrusively and ostentatiously, to flaunt, to show off or display something in order to impress people

to expose body indecently in public (slang)

to expose one's breasts or genitals usually suddenly, briefly and intentionally in public (slang)

to expose one's genitals in a public place as an exhibitionist (slang)

I beg your pardon, I can't perceive a breastfeeding mother or a picture of her as obtrusiveness, nor swank, nor indecency, nor exhibitionism. (Admittedly, this might be the view of minds that are voyeuristically fixated upon female breasts, as well as the view of uptight minds that lack a post-pubertal rapport with the body. But for too long we mothers have cared about those retarded minds.)

“We’ve seen flagrantly sexual images on there that haven’t been removed after reported attempts to get them removed. Yet in one day my wife’s pictures are removed three times,” Rocks' husband said, and just that describes the case and, beyond it, the skew state of a foozled society.