Mother told baby's bare bottom is pornographic

When Gail Jordan found an old photograph of her son as a bouncing baby, she thought it would make the perfect adornment for the top of his 21st birthday cake. But staff at Asda, whom she asked to transfer the print, refused to help unless Miss Jordan agree to censor the picture, because it showed the child's bare bottom.

They claimed that the photograph - which featured her son David as a five-month-old baby, and lying on his front - could be pornographic, and insisted on covering his backside with a strategically-placed star.

Miss Jordan, 41, said went to a branch of Asda in Liscard, Wirral, with the picture to take advantage of their £9.97 offer to ice a birthday cake with a photo printed on top.


Photo from here.

The care worker said: "They said it could be anyone's child so it could be deemed pornographic. "But I was asking to have it printed on a 21st birthday cake, so surely it was pretty obvious that it was my son.

"It's ridiculous - I understand they have rules, but there ought to be a place for common sense as well. In the end they would only do it with a star over his bottom, which to be honest made the whole thing even more hilarious."

A spokesman for Asda said: "We have a policy, as do many other retailers, of no nudity, whatever the age of the subject. "In this case we offered a number of alternatives including enlarging and cropping the photo, increasing the border size or applying a strategically placed star to save his blushes."

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