July 31, 2009
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,
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July 12, 2009
Welcome to the club and it is a growing one at that. According to anthropologist Paul Ray there is a new group in town – The Cultural Creatives. This group has no established leaders, no professed ideology and no cohesive sense of community. Its members loosely adhere to humanistic/spiritual ideals and life-styles that are eco-friendly. [...]
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