FROM FACEBOOK TO KIDDIE PORN

     My late aunt was always a stickler when it came to us posting family photos on Facebook. She was always a very private person. One time when my cousin had her second child, my wife and I went to see the baby. We took some pictures with the baby and I posted a couple of pictures on Facebook. My aunt flipped out. She asked me to take it down because she didn't want photos of her granddaughter circulating the internet with sickos out there. At the time, I felt she was overreacting just a bit. Then, I read this story and it seemed my aunt was right on target with her gut feeling. 

     It turns out; this Utah mother's benign family Facebook pictures of her 8-year-old daughter wound up on nearly a dozen porn sites thanks to a secret pervert. Brittany Champagne (I know...It sounds like a porno name.) said that she discovered the photos of the girl Wednesday night on a fake Instagram account that claimed to be an 11-year-old bisexual girl, a feed that also included photos of Champagne and her 9-month-old boy. 

     The sick social media hack apparently lifted the photos from Champagne's Facebook page and uploaded them to the bizarre Instagram feed while tagging several porn website feeds in the posts. Champagne, who lives in Riverton, near Salt Lake City, later found the images on "at least 11 porn sites." Without sounding like a perv, I'm wondering what these photos of her daughter look like if they are on porn sites. I mean, I can't imagine that a porn site would want just a random photo of a little girl. Then again, they might because there are some sickos out there. 

     Champagne had set her Facebook page to allow only her friends to view her pictures, but she'll now avoid posting any family photos whatsoever. She reported what happened to the Unified Police Department, who told her it didn't appear a crime had been committed. Um, how about child pornography? Using someone's likeness to sell something without their consent? Those two things are legal? 

      Champagne has been working tirelessly to the photos taken down and she said she felt "like the worst mom" when she saw her family photos on the raunchy sites. She said, "I feel beyond violated, so I don't even know what my kids would feel." Unfortunately, Facebook is a public domain and you do risk your photos getting stolen, but to steal photos of an 8-year-old girl and use it for a porn site, you definitely have some issues. I mean I guess my aunt was right to worry about posting photos of kids on sites like Facebook. My sister always posts photos of my nieces and nephews on Facebook, but it's because she wants her friends and family who don't live close by to be able to watch the kids grow. So, this is just insane and I hope Facebook can protect it's users from something like this in the future.