Angelina Jolie can kiss as many relatives as she wants, make out in limos and brag about it, or get tats in whatever body areas she wants because she is an adult. The same goes for Megan Fox, Katy Perry, and every other sex symbol (both male or female, actually) of age who chooses to be in the spotlight.

Ten-year-olds, however, are not sex symbols; they are children. Objectifying them in such a way is nothing short of pedophilia. Yet a 10-year-old from France is the latest little girl being objectified by our media who, let’s face it, already salivates on children, whether it was Jon Benet Ramsey or the little children in Toddlers and Tiaras.

The girl is a pretty child with a beautiful name, Thylane Loubry Blondeau. But that’s where the beauty in her story stops, as her fashion designer mother seems to be using her to sexually sell her own clothing line. If you click the link, you can see the disturbing photos that everyone from Vogue to ad campaigns are eating up. Some photos seem innocent enough, while others have her made up and dressed in skimpy outfits that most parents, I would hope, would prohibit their children from wearing.

Let your kid be a kid, for goodness sake! She has the rest of her life to be treated like an object, something her peers and the media will be sure to do to her without the aid of her own damn parents.

And while some people say there’s nothing wrong with a 10-year-old wearing no pants or no top, I think most parents—especially those hoping to give their daughters something to identify with, such as courage or intellect, rather than body objectification, or those simply wishing to keep their children safe from child predators—would disagree. And if they don’t, there is something wrong with them, too.