FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A mother says she was humiliated and degraded when she was ticketed for breast-feeding her son at a Colorado swim beach and wants an apology -- even though the ticket has been voided.
The 43-year-old Berthoud woman was ticketed for indecent exposure on July 14 when she breast-fed her son at the Carter Lake swimming beach in Larimer County.
She was shielded from view by two umbrellas and a towel, her attorney said.
Officials voided the $50 ticket and explained that a ranger who issued the citation to the breast-feeding mother was inexperienced. Nevertheless, Dorian Ryan said she wants an apology.
"This isn't right. Women shouldn't be harassed for breast-feeding their children," Ryan said.
Colorado lawmakers agree. A law passed last year gives women the right to breast-feed anywhere she's allowed to be in public.
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