[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/18/us-usa-toplessmom-missouri-idUSBRE9BH1ID20131218]Missouri mom charged for topless hot tub photo with teen daughter[/url].
Mom and her 14 year old daughter are enjoying some "girl time" in the hot tub, topless. The mom's 13 year old daughter snaps a pic and puts it on Snapchat. Her mother claims as soon as she saw the younger daughter take the pic, she told her daughter to delete it. Instead, it was posted and made its way around the Internet, especially local schools.
So, mom has been charged with misdemeanor child endangerment and could face a year in jail.
What was the endangerment? That she and her daughter weren't wearing bikini tops when in a private hot tub within their own home? Or that she didn't leap from the tub, snatch the phone from her 13 year old's hands and delete the photo herself?
This is embarrassing, probably for the whole family, especially for the 14 year old, and I am guessing that the 13 year old thought it would be lulzy. But a crime?
What say you? Should the mom be prosecuted? Do you think that she committed a criminal act?
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[quote]child endangerment[/quote] God dayum. How big were her boobs?
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Mfw I realize the title is a pun.
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7 RepliesEdited by Recon Number 54: 12/22/2013 6:48:41 PMI am honestly amazed just how many members are finding the idea of a family using their personal and private hot tub partially clothed to be so out of the ordinary (or to repeat a term that has been frequently used, "weird"). I guess that puritanical standards are more deeply embedded in our culture than I imagined. I would have thought, that as the resident "old man" that I would be more likely to have so-called "old-fashioned" standards or be somewhat prudish on the matter. Especially when I see the ease of which people in this community casually toss around phrases like "let's bang" or "send me nudes" which are both sexual in nature, but a family soaking in a spa is non-sexual. I can say that in Europe, where topless beaches are the standard (yes, even for teens!) or in parts of Asia, where communal bathing is a part of the culture, nudity and sexuality are sometimes intertwined, but there are clear situations where nudity is NOT sexual in any way. Maybe it's the time zone. I'm not telling anyone that they are "wrong" for thinking the way that they do, I am saying that I didn't expect to see so many who held that particular view. I've learned something today.
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What prosecutor would have a heart so cold, dead, and black as to charge this woman with a crime?
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Edited by qy: 12/22/2013 11:47:34 PMSure, men can be topless and that's fine but when women go topless it's all "OH NO NOT BOOBIES PROTECT THE CHILDREN!" Classic misogyny. I would hope we were beyond prosecuting women for exercising rights that men have, but I guess not.
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That is just -blam!-ing stupid. The mother and daughter are on their own private property, they can do just about whatever they want. The 13 year old should get some serious punishment from her parents for doing something so stupid but that's about it. This shouldn't even had made the news and it shouldn't even have repercussions for the mother.
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Its -blam!-ing america though, land of the fat and retarded.
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God, are people so pc now that they're prosecuting nudists?
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That's retarded.
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That pun, I see it.
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How absurd. They have every right to be naked on their own property or even public property. How have we become so ridiculous?
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Farther and 14 year old son take topless photo: It's OK. Mother and 14 year old daughter take topless photo: It's worse than Hitler. Mother of God society is a fucking joke.
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1 ReplyCan someone explain what "sending it to Snapchat" means? Because you send temporary/saveable pictures through Snapchat but it's not like Facebook.
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Nah I dont think it shoul be a crime. Not quite sure why the daughter thought it was wise to post a pic in the first place but I don't believe it should be a crime.
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I'm I the only one that's not bothered by this at all? There are worse things happening right now and this is considered bad news? Gee, gotta love American media.
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that's very creepy and weird.
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7 RepliesEdited by Wax: 12/22/2013 6:52:06 PMNipples are two of the most dangerous things in the world.
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20 RepliesWhy would you be in a hot tub with your Mum, topless?
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So of they went to the beach and didn't have a top on no one would bat a eye. I don't see any problem with it.
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9 RepliesThe mom and the daughter are stupid, no idea what the helll's wrong with them. To say that was a criminal act, I don't see it that way.
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This could be a case where they were in a hot tub and a family member was taking photos for fun with the assumption that they would be deleted later. The mother may not even have known that it was being posted to snapchat. There has to be more than meets the eye in this story. If the mother told the person taking the picture to send it than yea I could see her being in trouble.
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So dumb.
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You should be banned for that pun.
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I need to inspect this picture if you want my opinion.
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1 ReplyI don't find it weird to use your personal property however you choose. However, being that the daughter is 13, it counts as possession and distribution of child pornography.
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Edited by Ad Hoc: 12/22/2013 8:12:10 PMNo, I don't think she should be prosecuted. She's her [i]mother[/i].