Facebook Bans Photos of Child’s Brain

Heather Walker, of Memphis, Tennessee lost her baby, Grayson, to anacephaly, That is a condition where the baby develops without parts of the brain and the skull.

Heather posted photos of her son’s open skull to hopefully help other patients going through the same situation. Facebook banned the photos, and replaced them with a threatening message to remove them. Heather will not be banning her Facebook account despite the threatening messages in place of the removed photos. Facebook admitted and apologized for their mistake in removing those photos.

See ‘Facebook’s Mistake Was Blessing,’ Says Mother of Baby Born with Severe Brain Defect, RadarOnline.com, May 21, 2012.

Special thanks to Jim Hillhouse (Professional Legal Marketing (PLM, Inc.)) for bringing this article to my attention.