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Family’s Home Raided over Facebook Photo of Child’s Rifle (NJ)
Fox News ^ | Mar 19, 2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 03/20/2013 11:34:18 PM PDT by neverdem

New Jersey police and Dept. of Children and Families officials raided the home of a firearms instructor and demanded to see his guns after he posted a Facebook photo of his 11-year-old son holding a rifle.

“Someone called family services about the photo,” said Evan Nappen, an attorney representing Shawn Moore. “It led to an incredible, heavy-handed raid on his house. They wanted to see his gun safe, his guns and search his house. They even threatened to take his kids.” Moore was not arrested or charged.

This is the Facebook photo that led to the police raid. A Dept. of Children and Families spokesperson told Fox News they could not confirm or deny an investigation or raid had taken place due to government regulations.

“The department has a child abuse hotline for the state of New Jersey and anybody can make a call to that hotline,” spokesperson Kristen Brown said. “We are required to follow up on every single allegation that comes into the central registry.”

The story was first reported by The Blaze.

Moore, of Carneys Point, is a certified firearms instructor for the National Rifle Association, an NRA range safety officer and a New Jersey hunter education instructor.

He recently posted a photograph of his son wearing camouflage and holding his new .22 rifle. The child has a New Jersey hunting license and recently passed the state’s hunter safety course...

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; notagain; secondamendment
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To: Admin Moderator

uh...how does Fox News “copyright” a Facebook photo?


41 posted on 03/21/2013 4:59:24 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: LibsRJerks
who turned him in ? Didn't have to be a friend.

it could have been just some democrat who randomly happened to see his facebook while looking for prey as democrats do government is out of control and must be reduced to almost nothing , just the military and border control is all these morons in gov should be allowed to do . but to a democrat government a democrat trusts government idiots with its life , amazing

42 posted on 03/21/2013 5:01:43 AM PDT by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: beef

We don’t have a state called New Jersy.


43 posted on 03/21/2013 5:09:54 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: Yo-Yo

At least we have seemed to solved the “stick them all in breaking news” problem.


44 posted on 03/21/2013 5:15:20 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Democrat_media
Site hosting companies seem very eager ti turn over their logs to the government even without a warrant. I wonder if his lawyer could do the same to get a list of everyone who viewed his page in the days before this accusation was made. There may be laws preventing child services from turning over the phone logs even under subpoena, but I doubt that those laws cover Facebook.
45 posted on 03/21/2013 5:17:36 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: JoeProBono

46 posted on 03/21/2013 5:18:53 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Are all journalists ignorant or are they trained to be so?)
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To: marktwain

No government agent should have the right or even the expectation of remaining anonymous when acting under color of authority.

“If you’re doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide, no?”


47 posted on 03/21/2013 5:20:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Eye of Unk

i use it daily for posting anti govt articles only


48 posted on 03/21/2013 5:23:35 AM PDT by Revelation 911 (hump scratching n'er do well.....all strung out on chicken wings and venison jerky)
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To: neverdem

For once, a story like this has a happy ending. The home owner, who knew his Fourth Amendment rights, faced down the cops, ignored their threats, and kicked them out of his house.


49 posted on 03/21/2013 6:24:29 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: neverdem

Lots of lucky people here, who never had it close up with Child Protectors.

They might want to try posting some fiction to Facebook — I trust that is still legal? — with their kids’ photos (no kids? make some up) showing the little dears engaged in some legal activity with guns. Then sit back and wait for someone to rat them out to Child Protection Racket.

Experience is the best teacher.

Even if you don’t have kids, you will have an unforgettable story to tell, and possibly some scars and dead pets.

This current victim is a firearms instructor with a handy lawyer; he got his eyes opened less painfully than most.


50 posted on 03/21/2013 6:31:52 AM PDT by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

In Kansas, until recently, the funding for the child protective agency was based on caseload.

It incentivized the agents to find ‘violations’ where there weren’t any.


51 posted on 03/21/2013 6:52:03 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: neverdem

REMEMBER, these are the thugs of “Conservative” Chris Christie and his AG.


52 posted on 03/21/2013 6:53:06 AM PDT by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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To: lacrew
Even where it doesn't specifically work that way, it does. If there is a large enough caseload, there is opportunity for promotion as new hires are added on. Not to mention all the 'counseling money' when those who can afford it (not on welfare) are told they have to attend anything form anger management to parenting classes and are told they will be footing the bill.

Another trick is to take the child to dentist, doctors, etc. and then charge the parents for the costs. If child support is involved, they'll take the money for all the programs and diagnoses from the check, which passes through the Social Services hands first.

The list goes on, but there is a scatload of opportunity for abuse of the virtually limitless power there, and that does happen.

53 posted on 03/21/2013 6:57:45 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: NYTexan

My entire family rags me because I don’t post pics of my kids on the Internet and I don’t allow my family to post pics either. This is exactly why I have that policy. There is just no way to know what someone else might consider child abuse.


54 posted on 03/21/2013 7:03:59 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I have a libinlaw that is an example of what you’re stating - that anything could be reported as child abuse.

My kids were in a homeschool publication this month.
My MIL was looking through it and was appalled and nearly “outraged” that the girls were all dressed so conservatively.

I teased her by going along.
“How dare they dress like that! They look so wholesome! There should be a law against that!”


55 posted on 03/21/2013 7:08:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: marktwain; Sherman Logan
"They knew this, and the “social worker” ran from having her picture taken and would not giver her name."

This tells me everything I need to know about the situation.

Every see a "perp walk" and the suspect covers his face with his coat or hands etc.?

Same thing.

56 posted on 03/21/2013 7:11:50 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: MrB

My BIL doesn’t allow his toddler son to have sugar. We have long-time family friends, with whom we are not speaking currently, who almost reported him to CPS because he wouldn’t allow his son to have a cupcake at an Easter celebration. No sugar = child abuse?

Kudos to you for homeschooling your kids and dressing them appropriately!


57 posted on 03/21/2013 7:52:37 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: GeronL

Kid has the right posture, finger’s not on the trigger, two hands on the gun, and is smiling. Why the alarm?


58 posted on 03/21/2013 8:23:27 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (G.K. Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It’s been found hard and lef)
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To: Daffynition

Thanks for the link.


59 posted on 03/22/2013 11:07:19 AM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks for the link.


60 posted on 03/22/2013 11:14:28 AM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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