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Taking pictures of breastfeeding mothers in public to be made illegal in England and Wales

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January 4, 2022
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Young girl discretely breastfeeding her baby on the train

By Alex Forsyth & Jennifer Scott

Taking photos of breastfeeding mothers in public without their consent is to be made a crime in England and Wales.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said the move would stop women being “pestered, whether it’s for self-gratification or for harassment purposes”.

Campaigners welcomed the decision, calling it “a victory for breastfeeding mothers”.

The law will form part of the the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill going through Parliament.

Mr Raab also confirmed another amendment to the bill to give victims of domestic abuse more time to report crimes to police, and “plug gaps” in the law that risks offenders escaping justice.

He confirmed the six-month time limit in cases of common assaults involving domestic abuse will be extended, after the BBC revealed almost 13,000 such cases in England and Wales had been dropped in the past five years.

Manchester-based designer Julia Cooper began the campaign to make taking pictures of breastfeeding mothers illegal after her own experience in a local park last April.

“I sat down to breastfeed my daughter and I noticed a man on another bench staring at us,” she told the BBC.

“I stared back to let him know that I had clocked his gaze, but undeterred he got out his digital camera, attached a zoom lens and started photographing us.”

Ms Cooper said she was “completely shocked and devastated” by the incident, but her troubles continued after Greater Manchester Police told her no crime had been committed and there was nothing they could do.

“I just felt that was so wrong that we had been violated in this way and there was nothing the police could do to help,” she added.

“I was angry he felt just this right to capture what I was doing. It was disgusting. And I just felt so helpless, so I thought I need to do something about this.”

‘Disgusting behaviour’

Ms Cooper contacted her local Labour MP Jeff Smith, and his colleague Stella Creasy, who had her own experience of being photographed by a teenager on a train when feeding her child – telling the BBC it was a “horrible experience” that made her feel “so self-conscious”.

The pair took the campaign to the Commons and put forward an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in June, calling for a change in the law.

But while Home Office minister Victoria Atkins called taking such photos “unacceptable, creepy and disgusting behaviour”, she said the government was waiting for a review from the Law Commission on how best to act.

Now there has been a change of heart in the Ministry of Justice, with government minister Lord Wolfson putting forward his own an amendment to the bill in the Lords.

It will make a new offence of “recording images of, or otherwise observing, breastfeeding without consent or a reasonable belief as to consent” and to be found guilty, the perpetrator “must be acting for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification or of humiliating, alarming or distressing the victim”.

Stella Creasy with her son in the Commons in September
Image caption,Stella Creasy – pictured here with her son in the Commons – was also photographed when breastfeeding her child

Ms Cooper said she was “delighted” by the move, despite what she described as “too-ing and fro-ing from government” on the issue.

“It is a victory for breastfeeding mothers and it will provide the reassurance that we can breastfeed in public without strangers freely photographing and filming us as they wish.

“The law is on their side, the law is going to protect them and I am so pleased.”

Ms Creasy also welcomed the change, saying it “shows the law needs to keep up with the times, with people having phones and being able to take pictures and share them so easily”.

But the Labour MP also said it showed the importance of having more mothers in Parliament – another campaign she is leading – to make sure their voices were heard on the issues that affected them.

This article was first published here. You can read the original article in full here.

Source: BBC News
Via: BBC News
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