"Father-of-three branded a 'pervert' - for photographing his own children in public park"

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I find this hysteria about paedophiles so sad, why are some parents like this today?

I saw it this morning on GMTV he had to find a police officer who them told the braying mob group of parents to stop been ridiculous .

This country is going up shite creek without a paddle.

It's sadly getting increasingly common. Either that or being labelled a terrorist if you take a photo of a street.

Amateur photography as a hobby (and let's face it, he was probably picked out because he had an entry level DSLR rather than a compact camera) generates a lot of antagonism these days

The funniest thing is the readers' comments

Yeah, if you count the one where a man was treated suspiciously because he comforted his own daughter in the playground when she fell over, "funny".

I photograph dd endlessly in public

Its because it was a man I presume

ie. all men are perverts

It's bonkers if you ask me.

There was a nice piece in the Guardian today (couldn't find it on their website) written by a woman who was going for a wander in some woods with her grandson, and was interrupted by a policeman called in by some 'concerned' passerby. Who then insisted in accompanying them home, to make sure she wasn't a kidnapping paedophile OAP.

Oh fgs, don't these thickos have anything real to worry about?

(I mean the people who get hysterical when someone gets a camera out within 100 mile radius of any child.)

I saw this on local news last week - The play worker interviewed told a different story and it all didn't add up to him being accused of being a pead.

I think he has tryed to blow this up from nothing.

this is our local park and there are always TONS of people there with their cameras out snapping away.

Its a big park with a big pond full of ducks, a big play park for the kids etc

I dont understand why this one man was singled out and to call him a pervert was totally ludacris!

Makes me so proud to live in wolverhampton

Even if someone does secretly take a picture of your child and posts it on the net on some dodgy site, how on earth does it actually harm your child?

People who get kicks from this stuff... well, it's there problem, not yours. Having the screaming habdabs about having photos of your child innocently enjoying themselves displayed in public is just muddy thinking.

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We went to a fair at my dh's work last year and there was a father there taking photos of his dcs and there was a big hoohaa about it afterwards. People were complaining and actually saying that he was a pervert. The company told people not to come this year if they objected to photos being taken but the man from last year didn't have his camera!

I wanted to take a photo of my 21 month old riding a pony as it was the first time she has done anything like that and I wanted to put it in her baby book.

There is a genuine problem with the way people perceive how men should act around children though. I was genuinely shocked that the consensus here yesterday on a thread about whether a father should bath his child's friends was "no".

As a society we have truely lost the capacity to properly evaluate and deal with risk!

Here is the Guardian article

I blame Viz.

"All men are penis-wielding oppressors and potential rapists". (Millie Tant).

It's a shame that things are like that. I feel sorry for men, it must be so hard to do anything when you have the constant worry of what someone will think.

That Grauniad article made me feel really sad. I bet if Dorothy was attacked by some knife-wielding ASBO thug, or had her handbag snatched, it would take her ages to get the police to take any interest.

Just read that Guardian article, I can't believe the way she was treated, they should have complained.

That Guardian article says it all really.