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The picture Facebook keeps deleting

The image has gone viral despite Facebook repeatedly removing it.
The picture Facebook keeps deleting

It’s a photo of a dad comforting his sick child however; Facebook doesn’t seem to see it that way.

The image was originally shared by mum Heather Whitten of her husband Thomas and son, Fox.

However, the image has been removed countless time from Facebook for “violating” its rules when it comes to photographs, The Sun reports.

Heather and Thomas, who are parents to twins Fox and Persephone, Lillian and Leena, shared the image on Facebook after Fox had an attack of vomiting and diarrhoea.

Heather with her twins.

The tot was taken to hospital with salmonella poisoning but before that, Thomas held him in his arms in the shower and Heather captured the touching moment.

“Thomas had spent hours in the shower with him, trying to keep his fever down and letting the vomit and diarrhoea rinse off of them both as it came,” Heather wrote.

“It was a powerful moment for us as parents.”

“As I sat in the shower with the two of them I was just overwhelmed with the scene in front of me. This man. This husband and partner and father.”

“He was so patient and so loving and so strong with our tiny son in his lap. His whispers of reassurance to Fox, that he would be OK and that Thomas would take care of him were so steady and so honest.”

Despite Facebook repeatedly pulling the image, it’s been shared over 31, 000 times.

It’s not the first time people have gotten angry about an image being removed.

Earlier this year, a cancer patient shared a picture of her nipple to raise awareness of unusual breast cancer symptoms.

It too was removed.

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