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Parents sue Walmart, Ariz. over kids' bath photos

PHOENIX — An Arizona couple accused of sexual abuse after trying to have bath-time photos of their children developed at Walmart are suing the state and the retail giant.

A lawyer for Lisa and Anthony “A.J.” Demaree said the couple's three young daughters were taken away by Arizona Child Protective Services last fall when a Walmart employee found partially nude pictures of the girls on a camera memory stick taken to the store for processing.

The attorney said Walmart turned the photos over to police and the Peoria couple were not allowed to see their children for several days and didn't regain custody for a month while the state investigated.

Neither parent was charged with sexual abuse and they regained custody of their children — then ages 1½, 4 and 5 — but the Demarees say the incident inflicted lasting harm.

The Demarees are seeking an undetermined amount of monetary damages from both Walmart and the state, and they have requested a jury trial. Richard Treon, the lawyer for the Demarees, said the images of the girls were part of a group of 144 photographs taken mostly during the family’s vacation in San Diego.

There were at least seven to eight bath- and playtime photos of the girls. “There was nothing sexual about it,” Treon said. “This is a parent’s worst nightmare.”

One lawsuit names Arizona, Peoria and the state Attorney General’s Office as defendants, alleging that employees from each defamed the couple by telling friends, family members and co-workers that the parents had “sexually abused” their children by taking pornographic pictures of them.

A second lawsuit, naming Walmart as the defendant, says the company is at fault for not telling Anthony Demaree that it had an “unsuitable print policy” and could decide to turn any photos over to law enforcement.

Calls seeking comment from Arkansas-based Walmart and officials from Peoria and Arizona were not immediately returned on Thursday.

I can certainly understand wanting to protect children from harm, but I think the officials went a little overboard here. Of course, they never seem to catch the real child abusers. The Massachusetts DSS is a great example of this. They are awful at keeping children safe.

Good grief!!

Remember the naked little baby on the bare skin rug that was featured on our favorite sit coms--namely Leave It To Beaver and The Monkees. I wonder if that little tot got taken away from its parents??

Remember the naked little baby on the bare skin rug that was featured on our favorite sit coms--namely Leave It To Beaver and The Monkees. I wonder if that little tot got taken away from its parents??
Today he would!! :eek: ohno:

There have been similar cases like this one. My cousin's wife decided to buy a photo printer to print any bath pics at home instead of taking her memory cards to a store.

There have been similar cases like this one. My cousin's wife decided to buy a photo printer to print any bath pics at home instead of taking her memory cards to a store.
That's a good idea. I think probably more people will start doing that.

That's a good idea. I think probably more people will start doing that.

My cousin and his wife have a two year old son. She told us that there was an incident at a Costco in the Denver area in which a grandmother was investigated by child services after she took a photo CD in for prints that had a picture of her 2 year old granddaughter in the bath tub.

My cousin and his wife have a two year old son. She told us that there was an incident at a Costco in the Denver area in which a grandmother was investigated by child services after she took a photo CD in for prints that had a picture of her 2 year old granddaughter in the bath tub.

ohno: That's absurd.

My brother spent the first two years of his life running around naked. Any pictures of my brother from 1990-1992 do not feature clothing. (We'd put him in an outfit and he'd wriggle out of it).

So ridiculous. A good movie on this subject is Snap Decision with Mare Winningham and Felicity Huffman. It's so upsetting what the parents end up going through.

I don't think it's any of the employees' business what kind of pictures they are printing, as long as they aren't ones that are obviously copyrighted, like wedding pictures or professional photos.

I work with disabled people and we book rides to pretty much anywhere and everywhere. I can't tell you the number of times I've booked trips for people to the King County jail in Seattle. There is no way I would ever ask their reason for going. A lot of times they will volunteer the information. Just yesterday I had a guy book to the jail and told me that he might have to stay there and wondered what to do about his return ride that was scheduled for a couple of hours later. I didn't ask what he was going to jail for. I really didn't know what to say. I ended up saying that "I hope that doesn't happen." It's scary to be in that kind of situation!!!

That story reminds me of the movie "Hope Floats" where Sandra Bullock gets a job in that Snappy Photo and her boss tells her that if they get any "questionable" prints, they never mention it to the client, but first they make a copy for future viewing!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

So ridiculous. A good movie on this subject is Snap Decision with Mare Winningham and Felicity Huffman. It's so upsetting what the parents end up going through.
That sounds like a great movie! Thanks for the recommendation! I hope the parents who are suing Wal-Mart take them for all they've got!!! :mad:

Wow. Walmart went too far. I can only imagine the agony that must have put the family through.

Back in 1987 the pilot episode of Full House had a scene with one of the Olsen twins naked. No one seemed to have a problem with that. Same with the movie Three Men and a Baby. There's a scene where they are changing the baby and it's naked.

When I was growingup there was a saying - "Children should be listeners not talkers". Yoday I think it's "Children should be fully clothed at all times, even when in the tub".

That. to me, is a huge reason why kids today are so messed up - they are overprotected by the state and not given a chance to learn about life and what it can do to them (and how to protect themselves from it) at an early age!

Yeah, at least Wal-mart could've just verbally warned them at first, and tell them of the "unsuitable print policy". I wasn't aware of it!

Maybe it's just me, but if I worked in a photo lab and saw pictures of kids in a bathtub, I would immediately think "Aww, that's cute". The thought of sexual abuse wouldn't have even crossed my mind!!:crazy:

Now here's an incident that will scar both the parents and kids for life.


I can't imagine any parents who wouldn't want to take cute pictures of their kids doing fun things, and bathtime is fun--splashing around, playing in suds, rubber duckies, everything like a swimming pool, only smaller. It's clear that the moral guardians at the hallowed halls of Walmart have dirty, sick minds. :mad:

Now here's an incident that will scar both the parents and kids for life.


I can't imagine any parents who wouldn't want to take cute pictures of their kids doing fun things, and bathtime is fun--splashing around, playing in suds, rubber duckies, everything like a swimming pool, only smaller. It's clear that the moral guardians at the hallowed halls of Walmart have dirty, sick minds. :mad:
Sickening, isn't it?? :mad: There are photos of my siblings and I in our birthday suits growing up, way back in the dark ages of the 80s!! (:lol:) Times sure have changed - and not for the better!! :mad:

Back in 1987 the pilot episode of Full House had a scene with one of the Olsen twins naked. No one seemed to have a problem with that. Same with the movie Three Men and a Baby. There's a scene where they are changing the baby and it's naked.

And the funny thing is that both of those scenes got some of the biggest laughs!! Just pathetic how this world has become so shallow. Ironic since there is more "adult" nudity on TV than ever before!! Make sense out of that one for me!!!:crazy:

How about all those diaper commercials where you see the baby's naked tush?

If I ever have children...I'm using my digital camera! Sure, there are people like R. Kelly who would woo at naked baby photos and I wish my neighbor would clothe her baby because some weird-ass person may just swoop her away! I myself was seen au naturel in photos...but nothing crazy!

I feel that the 90's was a decade that we became overprotective to our children. Hell...this may seem tasteless....
http://www.joshreads.com/images/09/07/i090715famcirc.jpg:eek:
...and this may be next...
http://outducks.org/us/zz/yd/1955/us_zz1955l03d_001.png...
...and this band may reconsider renaming this album...
http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/159/159785_1_f.jpg.

I don't want to be held accountable of Child Porn that isn't Child Porn!

At some point in this country's history, common sense left and stupidity
came in

At some point in this country's history, common sense left and stupidity
came in
:yeahthat It's a real shame. I usually don't believe in the phrase "pain and suffering and mental anguish" as grounds for a lawsuit, but in this family's case, I'll make an exception.

That's horrible, but what's worse is that in a decade or so the parents will show the pictures to their children's' friends. :lol:

That's horrible, but what's worse is that in a decade or so the parents will show the pictures to their children's' friends. :lol:
If they're psycho parents, I guess. I've got a bunch of pictures of me and my two sisters taking bubble baths. My parents wouldn't dream of showing anyone those pictures when we were adults. I had the type of parents who respected me and never tried to embarrass me.