By Rusty Pugh

(AgapePress) - After her two young daughters were exposed to explicit hard-core pornography, an Alabama mother is asking concerned parents and others to join in a boycott against Movie Gallery.

Movie Gallery is the nation's third-largest video rental chain. According to the American Family Association, many of the company's stores nationwide offer hard-core pornographic movies, often found in "back rooms." The company says it is acting responsibly by keeping the porn in the back room.

But for one Alabama mother of two young girls, the back room is no safeguard. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, this mother told AFR News that her daughters, ages 10 and 11, were exposed to the porn, which was in full view, while trying to find the store's restroom. She says the incident traumatized her daughters.

"We are home schoolers. We've done everything in the world to protect our children from this kind of filth," the girls' mother says. "This is a small town, and we're just...devastated to think that they saw these things and we have to address these issues with little girls. These little girls still play with dolls."

The local police chief told the family that the best option would probably be a boycott.

"I beg every person who can hear my voice today to not only boycott Movie Gallery, but take the time to tell another person not to shop in Movie Gallery until they get rid of all this stuff," she says. "It's got to stop because not only were our daughters exposed to this, but they were directed to an area that was near this back room where we don't know who was in there."

A boycott may become a reality when AFA and other pro-family groups meet at Movie Gallery headquarters in Dothan, Alabama, on December 8.

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