Mother furious as photographer deletes picture of her daughter from class group photograph.

A furious mother has said she is  ‘devastated’ after a photography firm made the ‘inhumane’ offer to remove disabled children and those with additional support needs from class photos.

In a story culled from DailyMail, it was reported that three children at Aboyne Primary School in Scotland were removed from images sent via an internet link, giving parents the option to order a photo without them in it. 

Businesswoman mother-of-two Natalie Pinnell, 38, told journalists that  the decision to omit her nine-year-old daughter Erin from her class photo had ‘devastated’ their family.

She described the decision taken by Cornwall-based Tempest Photography as ‘inhumane’ and said her child had been ‘erased from history’. The company says it is investigating. 

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Ms Pinnell said:

‘She is the most beautiful human being. Who could do this?

‘I’m grateful that she’s not aware of it because the damage that it would do to her self-esteem would be devastating.  

Natalie, who runs a business management and strategy company in Aboyne, said she was left fuming after she got an email from the school with two photo links – one that included her daughter and one that didn’t. 

Another class that had a disabled girl in a wheelchair also had two photos – one with the schoolgirl and one without.

Natalie added: ‘I queried it with the school and they queried it with the photographer. He said ”yes, that’s what we have done.”

‘It’s been the most traumatic experience as a family that we have felt.