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I'm soooooo sorry....... i didnt mean to start an argument! c x

No. Maybe I dont understand paedophilia, as far as I know I am not afflicted that way, and I dont know anyone that is....... Bob

Wendy, I modified my reply............. But common sense? whats that? I guess every one that has posted has a different idea of what should be allowed, and what should not. But the original post was about the woman selling pictures. Not selling the kids. WE havent seen the pics, so how are we to judge if they were naughty or not. They were withdrawn, IN case someone got hold of them. Sickness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder! Bob

Fred....LOL....what you do with your young bottom, is YOUR business.........LOL Bob

Why didn't she try to sell pics of HERSELF in the bath???

Jennifer, precisely......... Bob

Does that mean I have to remove the photo of my young bottom from the GR Photos Page? I thought I looked quite cute with my curly blond hair.

dont you think its a sad day when kiddies are seen by some as 'sex objects'. there never was anything wrong with seeing a baby running round in the nuddie. sick minds about us nowadays, and as for posting the pics well she should have had more sense, its not like we dont know about these perverts on the look out for this sort of thing. i havnt seen them and dont want to but the point about companys using babies to advertise things is ok to a point, even they are very careful as to what they show, some have taken to using cartoons of kids instead of real ones. wonder if she will object when her kids get to teenagers and want to post nude pics on the net for sale so they can go on hol? something not just right with it, jenny

So really, its a case of Dont take that one. Just in case someone objects, and then the line gets drawn further and further away. as has been said you cant photo school plays and things........why?..Just in case...some one objects Until like in a lot of cafe's you cant get a hot cup of tea, IN CASE you get burned.......

I'm not the one that wants the authorities to show me samples of what's acceptable and what's not. Common sense ought to tell you what is and is not appropriate. *my message reads out of sync because the question asking me to give examples of what is an acceptable picture of a child and what is not has been removed for some reason*

Are you being serious here Bob?????

wendy--- this picture is ok, and THAT one is not........... Bob

Won't show samples of what?

Em, I know this, and why? dont YOU think that its gone too far? And WHO decides WHICH pictures are over the line? the authorities wont show us samples..........SO EVERY picture gets banned............ I have seen pictures of football teams, with the names and faces removed......... Bob

Bob - if grown women want to cheapen themselves that is THEIR look out. A parent is supposed to PROTECT their children NOT flog pics of them in the bath.

I can understand both points of view, but the fuss that has been caused is over the top.

Stupid stupid woman - should she have ANY of her kids if she does stuff like that?? Desperation?? Get off her a**e and earn money instead of peddling pictures of children in the bath.

sorry but what is wrong with pictures being sold? page 3 girls do it every day, you see more on big brother.. its not like she was selling the kids.........is it? Bob

A woman who auctioned photographs of her children in the bath to help pay for a holiday has defended her actions. The American mother of four said she did not imagine it would cause a fuss. Sara Fox, who lives in Ballymena, raised £5.50 in an eBay auction to fund a family holiday to the United States before the pictures were withdrawn. 'Mothers allow babies to model nappies, bathtime products and baby foods where there is more showing, and nobody takes offence with that,' she said. 'I respect people's rights to do what they want, but I maintain I wasn't doing wrong showing anything of my children which you can't see in a photograph on a child's bottle, a packet of nappies or whatever. 'The woman who bought the pictures didn't even want them. She did so because she sympathised with my plight - £5.50 isn't going to get me very far and the way it's looking, I'll probably not make it back home.' One of the photographs showed her 11-month old daughter naked in the bath with her young brother and sister. 'Desperation' The 24-year-old said that with her husband due to lose his job, the auction was an attempt to fund a holiday back to her home state of Wisconsin where a fourth child, her seven-year-old daughter, lives. Mrs Fox said that she had acted out of 'desperation' and that the image she chose was to illustrate that three of the children were together while her daughter in the US 'is basically by herself'. She said it never occurred to her that paedophiles might access the site. 'Maybe that's my shortfall, maybe that's my ignorance,' she said. 'Nothing clicked in me. A kid in a bathtub is a kid in a bathtub. You see them on TV and that's okay. What I was doing was personal, but I did take the pictures off the sale. 'If I had put more thought into it; if I had put more thought into the photographs I was posting... obviously it was the bathtub one which put everybody off. When I put them on, I never thought in those terms. 'I was thinking: `My kids look absolutely beautiful and they're together'. I couldn't see how people could take such offence and I still maintain they still show them better than those who advertise baby products.' In a statement eBay said it had ended the listing because it breached its policies. 'As usual, our community was extremely vigilant alerting us to this listing which resulted in a swift removal of this listing from the site,' it said.

this is awful, am I over reacting? thoughts please....