A Statement from Mom.Life:
A Statement from Mom.Life:
Hey everyone!
Last night, a new user began messaging our moms asking for private pictures of toddlers and young children. This is obviously unacceptable behavior, and the account was banned immediately. Although thankfully extremely rare on Mom.Life, several users were understandably upset by this, so we wanted to clarify a few things:
First off, Mom.Life has an absolute zero tolerance policy for child abuse and those who would prey on children. We strive to be a community open any supportive to *almost* everyone, but there is no grey area here for us. Those that would victimize children are not welcome in Mom.Life, period. Any behavior by any user that appears to be involved these activities will result the account immediately being banned from Mom.Life, and may result in the user being reported to the authorities. Secondly, there is no indication that any pictures from Mom.Life users were, or have ever been, taken from Mom.Life and shared outside the network for abusive or exploitative purposes. We take this EXTREMELY seriously and take proactive security measures beyond most other social networks to assure this does not happen. If we ever learn this has happened, we will alert you immediately.
Specifically regarding the incident last night, the user in question did not download any pictures from Mom.Life, and only asked for such pictures to be sent to them. This is, however disgusting to us, not a crime where this user lived, so Mom.Life would be violating our privacy agreement with all of you to send their information to the authorities. Mom.Life does not share personal user information with anyone, to protect all our moms. Exceptions are only made for explicit criminal activity that threatens a user or someone else in the community, or repeated offenses that appear illegal in nature; the user last night, for instance, will be reported to authorities by Mom.Life if they ever try to join Mom.Life and engage in this activity again (and we're watching for them). Additionally, we were told that multiple users did contact the authorities, and we will fully cooperate with any investigation.
If you see any behavior on Mom.Life that appears to be involved with the abuse or exploitation of children, please report it immediately! Depending on the nature of the offending behavior and where the user lives, Mom.Life may or may not be able to report it to authorities ourselves, but you are always welcome and encouraged to report what you believe to be child abuse. We will always fully cooperate with authorities to keep creeps off Mom.Life and behind bars. Thank you again to the moms who reported this incident last night for making Mom.Life a safer community for everyone!
~Lovingly (but seriously),
🎆mom.life_usa✨
Crystal Metheny·
Sorry, but this is an insane cop out. No parent in their right mind would be upset over "violating" our agreement with an application to protect the welfare of children. They were posting child pornography. You state that it's not a crime, but you'll report them to the FBI the next time? What about all the children in the mean time that are being exploited? Please delete my account. I refuse to be associated with any entity that refuses to use any information in their power to protect a child.
Moms of the US, unite!·
Мама дочки (1 год)
Just to clarify, if we violated our privacy protections to report one creep, they could sue us and they would win. We hope you understand that we do not have any interest in paying child abusers. We're not worried about you all; we're all (hopefully) on the same team here.
As a further point, there were pictures of very young kids who were naked on the profile in question, but upon consultation with law enforcement, none of these came close to illegal. Pictures of kids at bath time or otherwise naked are not automatically considered abusive. Please be careful when sharing these types of pictures however, especially with people you don't know well.
If you want to make us the bad guys here, there's nothing we can do about it. We cannot publicly discuss everything we do in cases like this, but I promise you that we've been working our butts off to protect you and your children, and help the authorities catch creeps who would abuse kids through every means that we can. We're moms on here too, and so are pictures of our kids. There is nothing we take more seriously.