Description of Incident: When Johnny Fernandez reunited with his girlfriend, Jaqueline, after a year separation, while Johnny immigrated from their homeland, Lima, Peru, Jacqueline brought several rolls of film to a store for developement. When the film technician viewed the photos he called Richardson police who considered the pictures pornographic. Fernandez and Mercado's children were taken into foster care and the couple was threatened with a second degree felony for, "sexual performance of a child."

Results of Incident: Mercado and Fernandez were released from prison and the charges against them were eventually dropped after action from their attorney, Andrew Chatham. The Texas court ruled, however, that they would not release their children until the couple agreed to take a lie detector test.