The parents of two teen-age girls who were photographed in the nude without their parents’ knowledge or consent have lost a bid to revive a civil suit against the photographer and her husband.

In Doe v. Chamberlin, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that no jury could ever find that the photos of the 15- and 16-year-old girls violated the federal Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act because none of them was sexually suggestive or focused on “forbidden zones.”

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