Baby Pictures
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:02 pm
I had not heard of this until today, but it makes me sicker than yesterdays loss.
Here is the 8/2004 AP blurb
Here is the follow up a year later
http://rdu.news14.com/content/your_news/raleigh/?ArID=72659&SecID=17
What a nightmare! Separated from your kids because of baby pictures. Serving jail time?!?! Legal costs in the hundreds of thousands. What kind of society doesn't let me take friggin baby pictures of my own kids?
For all you people who clamor for censorship, here is the flip side of the coin.
Here is the 8/2004 AP blurb
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=53086&SecID=2Raleigh parents accused of taking sexually explicit pictures
Updated: 8/11/2004 3:48 PM
By: Associated Press
(RALEIGH) - The parents of an infant boy and six-year-old girl have been charged with sexual exploitation after photo lab technicians saw pictures of sexually explicit poses.
Chardell Hamaty, 24, and Teresa Hamaty, 34, were arrested Tuesday after they dropped off their film at a pharmacy.
Detectives charged Teresa with two counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. Chardell was charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of first-degree forcible sex offense.
Arrest warrants say the six-year-old girl was posed in a suggestive position with her four-month-old brother while his genitalia were exposed. The father allegedly posed with the infant in a similar manner.
Chardell is being held under $500,000 bail and a federal detainer. Teresa is being held at the Wake County jail under $100,000 secured bond.
Here is the follow up a year later
arents accused of sex offenses are exonerated
7/27/2005 9:48 AM
By: Associated Press
(RALEIGH) - Parents who were charged with child abuse last August have been exonerated and reunited with their children.
Charbel Hamaty was charged with sexually assaulting his newborn son and Teresa Hamaty was arrested for taking sexually explicit pictures.
The couple described the ordeal as a "nightmare" that started over a roll of film that Charbel Hamaty dropped off at a North Raleigh Eckerd.
Teresa Hamaty says the photo that raised alarms shows a naked Kristoff, now 16-months-old, getting a kiss from his father on the belly button.
When the photos were shown to the police the couple was arrested and Kristoff was put in protective custody, while his half sister, Victoria, was handed over to her birth father.
Teresa Hamaty was released on bond, but wasn't allowed contact with her children for months.
Charbel Hamaty spent six months in prison before the charges were dropped because of a report submitted by an expert saying there was no criminal intent in the photos.
The couple says they are happy to be reunited with their children and to leave their legal troubles behind them.
http://rdu.news14.com/content/your_news/raleigh/?ArID=72659&SecID=17
What a nightmare! Separated from your kids because of baby pictures. Serving jail time?!?! Legal costs in the hundreds of thousands. What kind of society doesn't let me take friggin baby pictures of my own kids?
For all you people who clamor for censorship, here is the flip side of the coin.