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Mothers have been left fuming after a photography firm offered to remove disabled children and those with additional support needs from class photos.
Three children at Aboyne Primary School in Scotland were removed from images sent via an internet link, giving parents the option to order a photo without them in it.
Businesswoman mother-of-two Natalie Pinnell, 38, told MailOnline the decision to omit her nine-year-old daughter Erin from her class photo had 'devastated' their family.
She described the decision taken by Cornwall-based Tempest Photography as 'inhumane' and said her child had been 'erased from history'.
She said: 'You can't erase them because they're inconvenient. It's just not OK.
Mother-of-two Natalie Pinnell, 38, told MailOnline the decision to omit her nine-year-old daughter Erin (pictured together) from her class photo had 'devastated' their family
Erin's mother Natalie told MailOnline: 'You can't erase them because they're inconvenient. It's just not OK'
Lisa Boyd's nine-year-old daughter Lily Nicolson (pictured), who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, was also omitted from one of the class photos, along with another boy
'It's devastating to have your child be erased from a photo or give parents a choice whether she should or should not be included.
'She is the most beautiful human being. Who could do this?
'I'm grateful that she's not aware of it because the damage that would do to her self-esteem would be devastating.
'But I'm having to tell my other daughter about what's happening to her sister. I'm not sure I'm going to sleep tonight.'
Natalie, who runs a business management and strategy company in Aboyne, said she was left fuming after she got an email from the school with two photo links - one that included her daughter and one that didn't.
Another class that had a disabled girl in a wheelchair also had two photos - one with the schoolgirl and one without.
Natalie added: 'I queried it with the school and they queried it with the photographer. He said ''yes, that's what we have done.''
'It's been the most traumatic experience as a family that we have felt.
'I really wanted to believe there was a different reason. I was trying to look for a reason why someone would have made that decision.
'We have mourned. We have hurt. I feel like I haven't even hit the bottom of my shock. It's been absolutely devastating.
'The worst part was when I was talking to a friend about what happened and she found that there were two links for her daughter.'
Natalie said the school, which has a dedicated
