Charles Dickens once quipped, “Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.” But the truly great among us know that justice must be upheld at home too.
Alphonse Bertillon, the father of the mugshot, was destined to live out a cruel irony. After achieving fame for creating the Bertillon system of measurements and photographs to identify criminals, it fell to this great man to catalogue the crimes of his own child.
Here we have the mugshot of François Bertillon, age 23 months. After catching her nibbling all the pears from a basket on October 17, 1893, Bertillon charged his young daughter with the crime of gluttony and took her mugshot.
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What an adorable child! I hope she didn’t get a tummy ache! The mugshots are what today would be a YouTube short or on Instagram!
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Hear! Hear! Great observation, Judy.
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She is really cute! Her mugshot is hilarious. Who says Victorians didn’t have a sense of humor?
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🍐🍐🍐 Well they are delicious
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You know if you’re overly permissive, we’ll be overwhelmed with gangs of marauding toddlers, eating up all the fruit!
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Most adults have eaten a cookie or candy in a clandestine manner as a child? Wonder if they were given a mug shot or a hand shot?
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I didn’t go into her later criminal record. 😉 We’ll just have to assume this early encounter with the criminal justice system scared her straight.
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