I know I've taken pictures of my kids bathing when they were still babies and my wife would fret that someone would misconstrue something. Exactly the sort of thing that happened to a Peruvian couple who made the mistake of taking a picture of one thier children breast-feeding. They were charged with a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Their children have also been taken from them and while the charges have been dropped after the media began covering the story, their children have not yet been returned. Check out the discussion on kuro5hin.org and the original story from The Dallas Observer. Sad.

We discussed this at lunch today and among the comments were the assertion that the child services are structured in such a way that their progress is measured in the number of children that are removed from their families. This sounds like a reasonable assumption. Can someone back me up with facts though? Regardless, it's a sad situation.