One Family's Fight Against Grisly Web Photos, A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away

[mlauzon]

When grisly images of their daughter's death went viral on the Internet, the Catsouras family decided to fight back.

This is a story about a photo — an image so horrific we can't print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' e

[Testeagle]

I hope the family wins the right to privacy.

[Lina]

I've read about this kind of stuff happening, and it's so horrible sounding.
I can't imagine what it'd be like if I lost a loved one and got taunted by their death like this.

[daroth]

WALL OF TEXT DAMN.
So I went searchin for the pics and my reaction to them was "meh".

:/

[BGLamb]

Yeah, because solving the people who are supposed to patrol the roads and prevent this type of thing is gonna help so much.

Morons. "Wins the right to provacy"? What a joke.

[MageMoa]

This is just horrible. I can't believe how cruel the world is..


(Sadistic/Optimistic
Well, we're all going to die due the swine flu anyways.