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Father Labeled a ‘Pervert’ for Taking Pictures of Own Children in Park

Gary Crutchley, 39, was photographing his two youngest sons Cory, 7, and Miles, 5, on an inflatable slide when a woman running the slide asked that he stop. When he protested, other families waiting on the slide line also demanded he put the camera away.

One woman accused Crutchley of taking photos of children to put on the Internet and called him a pervert, he told the Mail.

So now, sex offender has become the default rather than the special case. If you have a camera at the playground taking pictures of children, you’re obviously an Internet pervert. That makes perfect sense, considering that we need such harsh laws to deal with the enormous number of pedophiles that lurk around every dark corner where children may or may not be.

Where does this paranoia end and which luckless souls get caught up in this draconian dragnet before its all over?

The accusations got so out of hand that Crutchley had to get two policemen to confirm he had done nothing wrong, the paper reported.

Rather than catch criminals, the police are there to confirm you’ve done nothing wrong. Guilty until proven innocent.

“What is the world coming to when anybody seen with a camera is assumed to be doing things that they should not?” Crutchley asked in an interview with the Daily Mail. “This parental paranoia is getting completely out of hand. I was so shocked.”

I’m not shocked at all. Had enough yet?