ForeverInLoveWithJus

How could you do that? Its sick.

A woman who auctioned photographs of her children in the bath to help pay for a holiday has defended her actions.
The American mother of four said she did not imagine it would cause a fuss. "Mothers allow babies to model nappies, bathtime products and baby foods where there is more showing, and nobody takes offence with that," she said.

"I respect people's rights to do what they want, but I maintain I wasn't doing wrong showing anything of my children which you can't see in a photograph on a child's bottle, a packet of nappies or whatever. "The woman who bought the pictures didn't even want them. She did so because she sympathised with my plight - £5.50 isn't going to get me very far and the way it's looking, I'll probably not make it back home."

One of the photographs showed her 11-month old daughter naked in the bath with her young brother and sister. The 24-year-old said that with her husband due to lose his job, the auction was an attempt to fund a holiday back to her home state of Wisconsin where a fourth child, her seven-year-old daughter, lives.

Mrs Fox said that she had acted out of "desperation" and that the image she chose was to illustrate that three of the children were together while her daughter in the US "is basically by herself". She said it never occurred to her that paedophiles might access the site. "Maybe that's my shortfall, maybe that's my ignorance," she said.

"Nothing clicked in me. A kid in a bathtub is a kid in a bathtub. You see them on TV and that's okay. What I was doing was personal, but I did take the pictures off the sale.

"If I had put more thought into it; if I had put more thought into the photographs I was posting... obviously it was the bathtub one which put everybody off. When I put them on, I never thought in those terms. "I was thinking: `My kids look absolutely beautiful and they're together'. I couldn't see how people could take such offence and I still maintain they still show them better than those who advertise baby products."

ManSlippers

I see her point. I won't judge her.

Nanny

ditto.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Well I saw the pictures in the paper and its sick to put your kids at risk like that. It wouldnt be too hard to track her down in Ballymena.

Nanny

Yeah, but people make mistakes, right? I mean, it's a creative way of trying to raise some funds for a vacation. She just should have made a better selection in what pictures to use.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Yes but the fact is they were naked. In the bath, personal pictures like that should never be sold. I find it disgusting, maybe its just me. There are better ways to raise funds.

Nanny

I haven't seen the pictures personally, but from what I understand they weren't displaying anything more than a Huggies or a Lever 2000 commercial would show. Heck, the other night AFV showed a baby running around the house naked, and they didn't use any sort of censorship.

ForeverInLoveWithJus

Well that to me is wrong. I have seen them and I think in the end of the day, perverts are out there and will love this material.

Birgerhar

I agree.

TaintedIllusion

sounds like an honest mistake to me.

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