Do you know these babies? Deputies look for camera owners
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. – Do you recognize the newborn babies in these pictures? Officials in northern Oregon hope you do.
Deputies in Washington County recovered two stolen digital cameras that are full of family pictures and they want to return the cameras to their rightful owners. Both cameras have pictures of newborn babies and family members posing with the babies.
Deputies first found the cameras six years ago when they arrested and got a conviction against a man for breaking into cars. Now the cameras are set to be auctioned off or destroyed.
Before they go, deputies are making one last push to get the pictures back to the families.
“These children will likely be starting first grade this fall and they will look different, but the photos have other clues that the right relative or neighbor could recognize, such as the adults or background items,” the sheriff’s department wrote in its newsletter.
We showed the pictures to parents at a Hillsboro elementary school this week. None of them recognized people in the photos, but said they are happy to help in the search.
“Family photos are very important,” said mother Heidi Daffron. “I’ve been in a position where I’ve lost (my son’s) pictures and it’s really upsetting, especially because it looks like a newborn.”
Even if the family is from out of town, deputies said they’d be happy to mail the cameras.
Click through this photo gallery to check out the photos. If you recognize anything, you can e-mail the sheriff’s department at Sheriff.web@co.washington.or.us.
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Look at me...
Stevie Wonder could see I am not the baby daddy.
I totally agree w/ Maesmaze. Cops aren't so nice as to go out of the way to contact the media so "they can return the stolen cameras"! Way more to this story than that.
There is more to this story than what meets the eye. I have NEVER heard of a police department going to these lengths to return two âstolenâ cameras. I hope they hook whatever it is that they are âfishingâ for.
 @maesmaze It doesnt mean there cant be a first time. Looking at the photos, perhaps the police see the importance of the childs birth and early development and want the owners to have the photos back.
I think its great that they are trying to find the family these pictures belong to
This most likely is a continuation of that investigation into that baby selling ring down there in Oregon. I hope they find them and reunite them with their rightful families.
Curious. There must be hundreds, maybe thousands of unclaimed cameras in the hands of the police. Do they look at all of the pictures to try to locate the owners? Â It is admirable to try to help people get back together with their family pictures, but come on, is that all that's going on here?
Here's an idea. If they can pull the EXIF data from the images and get the camera serial number (most digital cameras stamp the image with a serial number), then visit this page: http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/
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That page claims to be able to scour the web looking for images that have the same serial number.
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The caveat is that through editing and posting process, this information is almost always lost for the image files on web sites (which is true for these pictures that KOMO has posted).Â
 @georgef Thanks for the website tip. pretty cool
It is a possibility that the family already had downloaded those pics off of the camera prior to them being stolen...Just a thought.
This is really sweet that they are trying to find the owners. It's nice to see some heart in our government!
maybe there are other things on that camera that prevent the owner from claiming the camera? I am not suggesting anything, but it's a possibility
 @Komo Dragon Could be a ploy to catch some criminals that were photographed committing the crime. I have watched too many cop movies....or it's just my suspicious nature. But then again it could just be some LEO being helpful and caring.
There's got to be more to this story than just stolen cameras.  A big news story on two stolen cameras six years old?  How many other stolen things do they have that they could show on the news and get returned to people?  I am guessing that it's  something more.  Also don't you have to have permission of the people in these photos?  I wouldn't want my pictures in my pajamas on the news just to return my stolen outdated camera.