Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How about this? I met a woman at a gallery opening last night and this is her tale of woe. She's a serious amature photographer and a grandmother who lives in New Jersey. She took some snaps of her grandchildren-- age 3 and 6-- in the bath tub and took the pictures to the local one-hour lab. When she returned to collect the pictures she was arrested, taken to the police station, fingerprinted, photographed, charged as a child pornographer and locked up pending $50,000 bail. She was released after paying a $5000 non-refundable bond. Her home was searched, her photos and computers, CD rom and every floppy disk were siezed as evidence and her family was interrogated, She was suspended from her 31-year job as a social worker. Her case is pending, and she says it will cost her $30,000 to defend herself. For further info see her website: http://members.aol/_ht_a/marianrubin/MariansNewsPage.html