Father branded a 'pervert' - for photographing his own children in park

Its one thing to male sure someone is only taking pictures of their own children. I was doing so at a local fair. Some police officers casually walked by and took notice. Wehn they realized I was taking pics of my own child they walked away. A slight inquiry as to what pictures were being taken is no sweat, but to automatically assume that someone is being eprverted is rediculous.... how many children were going down the slide at once anyways???

Weak. Society is disgusting sometimes.

Hell, if I saw a man taking pictures of little kids I woulda thought "pervert" as well.. just as others would also. But to find out that those were his kids, who woulda knew?

All the uptight, sexualy frustrated, self loathing housewives were just jealous of him and his whole family having such a good time together.

What do they think somebody would do with pictures of fully dressed kids, undress them with their eyes?

People these days are so uptight about other people's kids, that they don't know about their own children, just ridiculous.

This is societal paranoia.

Leave the poor guy alone. If he was willing to show the photos that should prove that he isn't a pervert. I can understand people being concerned but when people jump to conclusions without the facts that shows their ignorance. Remember what Felix Unger said " When you asssume things about people, you make an ass of you and me:)

The fear against pedophilia has become so insanely outrageous that this is what people have become.

And the government and corporations laugh all the way. Now they have a perfect enemy to decry whenever they want to engage in some bullshit.

And the public goes right along with it and turns on each other.

When I was a little toddler I use to run around naked sometimes and one time my parents took a picture of me because it was funny. We've become so detached from reality in our society, that today we would be afraid of doing for fear of being considered a pedophile.

At least it isn't that bad here in America, yet.

this is insane.. paranoia to an extreme.. And the irony is that these kids pics are now all over the papers for anyone anyway... *facepalm*

Like so many people, I love photography! All kinds!(still do some film, how old school) Of course, now-a-days it comes with a risk. Plenty of handheld devices can take pictures and the tech behind it gets better and better by the day.
After 9/11 it became difficult to take photos near public trans( I think people moving about this way is captivating ). With cellphones, it became easier for actual pervs to snap shots up womans skirts or dresses( no more mirror on the shoes ).
This story is sad! I don't mind telling people, who have issues with me taking pictures in public, to "FUCK RIGHT OFF!". Yes this has risk too!( arrest ). But taking a piss in public, in some places, can still have you registering as a sex offender( just ask a homeless person ).
I hope this guy gets some nice enlargements of his family for ALL to see! Nothing wrong here!

Beam me up Scotty. There is not intelligent life here.

his responses were so civilized . if this would have happened in Jersey it would have been very ugly .

hmm, they should be charged for being red-headed. obvious signs of immorality.

SERIOUSLY, people can't do anything today with there kids without being criticized. first u can't discipline ur kids now u can't photograph them.

It's nothing wrong with parents trying to protect their children. The only thing that is wrong is accusing in the name of ignorance.

The real pervert was sitting in the corner enjoying the whole show.

What are people thinking these days? How can you accuse someone of being a pervert when they are obviously taking photographs of their own children. Absolutely ridiculous!

whats wrong with getting some kodak moments with your kids?

This is paranoia at its best.

That shit is crazy... I wish someone would call me a pervert for taking photos of my children...

This is why as a photographer I am afraid of taking pictures of kids at a park.

You can seriously tell they are his kids... look at them. I mean, they look like him.

People are so nosy and always want to jump to every worse possible scenario.

People are so brainwashed by mass-media that they are scared and suspicious of everything and everyone...

Culture of fear. Chalk one up for "the terrorists".

That's why I don't watch all that crap.
F Corporate media.

None of the people who complained were men. Would a woman with a camera get harassed like this? Never.

This is pure sexism. Prejudicial anger directed directed against men. And seemingly only by women.

The officials at the park were taking a much gentler stance on this kind of activity, so the infectious anger was caused by some few who are good at creating a scare out of nothing.

Sexism is bad. This stuff is pure sexual harassment. To those few ladies that go off the deep end: Stop. Get some therapy. Seriously.

It's essentially the media's fault for their ridiculous scare mongering and over-coverage of paedophilia cases.

I'll tell ya... it's always the rubber manufacturer consultants...

It really says more about the people who called him a pervert. If you stop seeing sex in children, a bathing suit becomes a bathing suit, a hug is no longer a proposition, and a wink is just a child being cute.

I once worked as a district manager for a large city newspaper. Now of course, my job was to recruit kids to be newspaper boys & girls.

My car had the Newspaper bumper stickers on it so anyone could surmise that I worked for the paper.

I had company-supplied business cards with the newspaper logo, address and phone number and my name and title with me as I talked with the local neighborhood kids....

One day some scared and freaked out parent called my office and my house to complain.

She found out I indeed did work for the newspaper.

Scary that you can be totally innocent, professional and still be accused of anything these days:(

---‘I showed her the photos I had taken to prove my point. Then another woman joined in and said her child was also on the slide and did not want me taking pictures of the youngster.----

HAHAHA...stupidity is contagious.

It hurts the mind to even have to fathom this kind of statement let alone line of thinking.

You won't stop someone from taking pictures of your child if they so deem it necessary to do so. You can pretend you have that kind of power and feel good that you'd make them bleed if you found out, but in reality you have absolutely no power over what someone decides to do with a camera, especially without cameras look today.

seems like to the best way to protect your children and family these days is by not having any....

This is really, really dumb. I cannot get my head around what some people are thinking....

If someone told me to stop taking pictures of my child there would be a fist fight.

Infuriating!!! Poor guy just trying to take pictures of his kids and gets harassed. Those women that accused him of doing otherwise if anything should be called perverts for saying he was doing anything other than capturing a family moment. So ridiculous its not even funny.

our feet are firmly planted in mid air

It's also ironic that the newspaper reporting this story - London's Evening Standard - is part of Associated Press, which also owns The Daily Mail, a paper that is in no small part responsible for this level of hysteria towards potential paedophilia...

Still, this story is a damning indictment of the way in which society has become perversely twisted.

What is going on in this world?? I just want off.

It is ironic and ridiculous that people accuse a father taking pictures of his children in a park, but ignore or fail to pay attention to children that are actually being sexually abused.

thats it ladies and gentlemen, our world is going to shatter with all this monstrosity. you cant even take pics of your own children in public. thats insane.

The owner of the slide is a local councillor, it was companies policy and daughters poor handling of the situation that caused this incident.

In another public park on another sunny day he could have been linched.

madness gone mad

bein a good dad makes u a paedo, like hell it does.

This kind of stupidity makes me furious!!!!

Why do we always imagine the worst in people - he's taking photos of children in a park ... MUST be a pervert!

Can't in any way be the children's father ... No, not in this day and age, where peadophiles lurk behind every bush.

Argh!!