Breastfeeding Picture Gets Couple Charged with Child Porn, Children Taken

[DDD]

Jacqueline Mercado of Richardson, Texas, dropped off fours rolls of film at a nearby Eckerd. The pictures that came from them, taken last fall, would tear apart her family.

According to the Dallas Observer:

In one–the photo that would threaten to send Mercado and her boyfriend to prison–the infant Rodrigo is suckling her left breast.

The technician at the Eckerd thought various photos were “suspicious ” and lied to Mercado when she went to pick up the photos, returning only 3 of the 4 rolls. Later, when the police arrived, they confiscated the photos and passed them on to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, which got indictments against Mercado and boyfriend Johnny Fernandez, who had just arrived from Peru when the pictures were taken.

We thought they contained sexuality.If you saw the photos, you’d know what I mean.

(Ew! Don’t you expect a nudge and a grunt following that comment?!)

The couple was charged with “sexual performance of a child”, a second-degree felony which could carry up to 20 years in prison.

This is the photo in question, though fuzzy in the Observer, for obvious reasons,


Breastfeeding Picture Gets Couple Charged with Child Porn, Children Taken



The charges centered on a single photo, the breast-feeding shot. Fernandez and Mercado say they took it–although the child had ceased breast-feeding–to memorialize that stage of their baby’s development.

‘We wanted to see if he would take it, and he did,’ says Mercado, explaining through an interpreter that it was a spur-of-the moment notion to which they gave little thought. ‘Johnny never saw the child breast-feeding, so this was for memories. For us.’

[eyeball]

thats just sick they should lock that baby up for a long time too!

[guest]

[Fornicator]

Breastfeeding some 4-year-old kid is kind of sick.

[DDD]

they say the longer you breast feed the better it is for the kid

[guest]

[DDD]

does look f***ed up

[Fornicator]

That can't be healthy.

[Itsy Bitsy]

Haha, I was breast fed til I was 2 or 3. I don't remember the age, but I know it was way longer than usual.

[DDD]

and i bet it was good for your long term health

[Fornicator]

Your mother's nipples must be like shoe leather.

[DDD]

Forn you just had to go there