A horrified mum who posted a naked picture of herself and her nude child has issued a warning to other parents after she was forced to take it down.
Influencer Chloe Szep was keen to share snaps of her family online after amassing a huge following of over 625,000 on Instagram.
The young mum grew her fan base after posting regular family updates online.
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Sharing a nude image of herself and her naked child on Instagram, the 24-year-old covered their modesty with emojis and a Photoshopped blur, reports the Daily Star.
However, despite Chloe's innocent intentions, her followers soon advised her to delete the image because of the risk of online predators abusing the pair's nakedness.
This led to presenters on Outspoken the Podcast issuing a warning to other parents, explaining: "She received an influx of messages warning her of new technology that predators are using to remove paintbrush tools and also emojis.
"Disturbingly, some predators go as far as photoshopping genitals onto the photos, which is just disgusting to think about."
After being warned, Chloe quickly took down the picture and shared an update on Instagram.
She said: "Thank you to everyone for informing me, I obviously wasn't aware of what people do to images of children on the dark web, which is sickening.
"I hate the world we live in. Naked children are so innocent, and it's so natural for humans to be naked. The world is so grossly sexualised now. It's sickening."
As a result of this incident, the podcast's presenters warned other parents about the risk of sharing their own intimate pictures with their young children online.
"I think you do need to be so careful when you are sharing your kids online," they said.
"While she might think that child nudity is innocent, sadly, there are so many predators online who do scope out big mummy blogger people like this, so she would be a target.
"Obviously, at the end of the day, it's the creeps out there's fault for taking these images, but as a parent, you really need to be protecting your child where you can."
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