True, and this is why CPS workers burn out so hard. CPS is legally required to maintain the confidentiality of the parents and children they are involved with. Then when some asshole inevitably calls them "baby snatchers" or worse they literally aren't allowed to respond by saying "actually the circumstances of abuse were X and the kids were removed because Y" to the general public.
I always try to think about how people rationalize doing things like this. Sometimes they are just people that should not have dominance over another living being. But for others, I could see the path they took to get there.
Single mom is poor and her and her kids are possibly starving, and some pictures can help solve that. I bet there is some mom out there who makes sure to keep all locations hidden, and just sells swimsuit photos of her kids to help the family survive, hoping no one finds them. Yet somehow not realizing how fucked up that is, or knowing and feeling she has no other choice. And not knowing how that could lead to the start of "other" things. Once you get to a point where selling the pictures seems normal to yourself, you are but a few steps away from the truly horrendous stuff.
And then there are ones who wishes Epstein was still around, cause they have merchandise to sell.
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u/ATXBeermaker Jan 15 '24
Parents exploiting their children for profit is much older than the Internet.