Post by jamesjosh on Feb 27, 2010 11:22:07 GMT
A father was told he was not allowed take pictures of his four-year-old son at a Sunderland shopping centre because of fears he could be a paedophile.
Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, of Kent, was challenged by a security guard at The Bridges after photographing his son Ben on a children's train ride.
He was told he could not prove Ben was his son and later quizzed by a police officer called to the centre.
Bosses at the shopping centre have apologised for the "misunderstanding".
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539361.stm
On the surface this did seem outrageous but I am not so sure.
I saw on this on Sky news last night and there seems to be a slight change to the story.
On the TV, the father said the security guard asked him if he wanted to speak to a manager and the father declined. He then took a photograph of the security guard. If the father was so upset surely he could have talked to the management and I am sure it would have been smoothed over. I expect if his son was abucted or interefered with by a paedophile he would have blamed the mall and the police for failing to deal with the situation.
Still at least here we have an example of a father looking after his son.
Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, of Kent, was challenged by a security guard at The Bridges after photographing his son Ben on a children's train ride.
He was told he could not prove Ben was his son and later quizzed by a police officer called to the centre.
Bosses at the shopping centre have apologised for the "misunderstanding".
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539361.stm
On the surface this did seem outrageous but I am not so sure.
I saw on this on Sky news last night and there seems to be a slight change to the story.
On the TV, the father said the security guard asked him if he wanted to speak to a manager and the father declined. He then took a photograph of the security guard. If the father was so upset surely he could have talked to the management and I am sure it would have been smoothed over. I expect if his son was abucted or interefered with by a paedophile he would have blamed the mall and the police for failing to deal with the situation.
Still at least here we have an example of a father looking after his son.
