Baby's Cheek 'Piercing' Causes Widespread Outrage Among Parents Online
An Ohio mom posted a picture on Facebook of what appeared to be a piercing on her baby’s cheek. Enedina Vanc's photo stirred reactions from more than a few concerned parents, but it now appears to be a hoax.
"So I got the baby girl's dimple pierced!! It looks so cute, right?" Vance wrote. "If she decides she doesn't like it, she can just take it out, no big deal I'm the parent, she is MY CHILD, I will do whatever I want!! I make all of her decisions until she's 18, I made her, I own her!!"
She added, "I don't need anyone's permission, I prefer her to have her dimple pierced. Its NOT abuse!! It would be illegal, but it's not. People pierce their babies everyday, this is no different. MY BABY, MY CHOICE!! PARENT'S CHOICE, PARENT'S RIGHTS!!"
The picture of the baby’s pierced cheek was later revealed to be fake. She took a picture of her 6-month-old and edited a diamond stud over the infant's cheek to make it look like real. Vance is apparently against circumcising or piercing children.
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She took to Facebook again last Friday and explained that the picture wasn’t real.
"Wow, so as (hopefully) everyone knows, my last post was FAKE. I photoshopped that picture of the baby to look like I had her dimple pierced. It is in fact PHOTOSHOPPED," she said.
In her post, Vance spoke about circumcision and how it may be accepted over piercings in infants due to sexism, misconception and fear.
"People would rather continue to inflict an unnecessary & irreversible ritual onto their defenseless infant, than to have to admit that they don't know. They don't know why it's done, if it has to be done, what the functions of that body part are, or what happens if they were to just leave it alone!" she said. "So the cycle continues, all because parents are too afraid or too proud to admit that they just don't know."
Despite the clarification, her second post was not as widely seen as the initial post. As a result, Facebook users commented on the original post more than 13,000 times. Vance received a lot of negative comments, but she said she was glad that the post got the attention it did.
"I didn't take any of their comments, anger, or hate to heart. They were, in their own way, try to protect my baby," she wrote. "However, I'm disappointed that it didn't really go much further than that. Once they were made aware of what my post was actually about, they just said oh & went on their way."
She continued, "Others dismissed the connection between the dimple piercing & genital cutting & felt it necessary to attempt to explain why they cut their child. Its ironic that they were ready to beat me to death over my excuses for piercing my baby, but then they used the same EXACT excuse to justify cutting their baby."
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