Father Slammed For Showering Naked With 6-Year-Old Girl After Swim, Mother Defends Act

A father was slammed for showering naked with his 6-year-old daughter after a swim at a local public pool. An altercation took place between the father and another man in the pool's changing room over the incident.

The wife of the man posted details about the altercation on Kidspot, bringing the incident to light. It wasn't clear where the incident took place.

The father went swimming with his daughter on a hot day. Before heading home after the swim, the man took the girl for a quick shower, News.com.au reported.

“Kyle collected the bags and towels and ushered Isla into the men’s change room to have a quick shower and get dressed,” the mother reportedly wrote on Kidspot.

As the changing room was empty, the father decided to shower with his daughter. He wanted to get the chlorine off them and also wash his daughter's hair.

“But as they stood together under the water, a man in his 50s walked into the change room and saw them,” the mother wrote, adding the man made a "disgusted" face before approaching the father.

“Not really the right place for your daughter, is it?” the man said. “This is the male change room, not the female. She shouldn’t be showering like that in here.”

His wife said the man's comments left the father – addressed in the post as Kyle – in a state of shock. After being slammed by the man, the father quickly got dressed and left the scene with his daughter.

Later at home, Kyle discussed the incident with his wife, who was “absolutely infuriated.”

“He asked me if I thought that him showering naked with Isla was inappropriate in the men’s change room,” she wrote. “He explained that while he hadn’t given it a second thought at the time, now he was second-guessing himself and his decision to do it.”

However, the child's mother said she thought it was a completely “normal and practical” thing to do.

“Not only was I infuriated that this man has made this remark to a father caring for his daughter, but infuriated that now my husband was insecure in his own parenting abilities and the decision he made,” she wrote. “How is a father helping his six-year-old daughter shower in a changeroom after a swim wrong?”

Explaining her reason to support her husband, Isla's mother said her daughter was too young to be sent off to the female change room by herself.

“I understand that everyone comes with their own views and beliefs and perhaps if Isla was older ... I would have understood where this man was coming from,” she wrote. “But she is a six-year-old girl - and nothing about her using a public changeroom, even if it is the men’s, with her father, is wrong.”