Child Services, online community appalled by Grandma’s photos of baby in roasting pan

“Joke” photos posted to Facebook by the baby’s grandma Jackie Sheaks (Photos from Facebook / Gawker)

Central Ohio news station WBNS recently reported that a Columbus, Ohio grandma with a very offbeat sense of humour was visited by the local sheriff’s office and Child Services shortly after she posted photos of her granddaughter in a roasting pan, surrounded by potatoes.

Many netizens were not amused by the picture, and by another one showing the baby with her pacifier duct taped to her mouth. A group of granny’s Facebook friends could not get in on the sick joke, and thought it best to alert the authorities.

When questioned about what was largely perceived a tasteless prank, grandma Jackie Sheaks replied: “We’re not horrible people that they are making us out to me. It started as just a joke; we put a little tape on the pacifier because we were being silly. We wanted to share it with friends because everybody that knows us, knows we play around like that.”

In another interview, Sheaks stressed that she had “learned her lesson,” and that she would never take such photos again; noting that although she and her family see nothing wrong with the images, other folk are just too uptight.

“What we think is funny, other people don’t,” she told 10TV.

No charges were filed against Sheaks.