A grandmother in Ohio wants the public to know she is not a terrible person after facing backlash over photographs of her baby granddaughter with a pacifier duct-taped to her mouth, WBNS-TV reported Wednesday.

Jackie Sheaks, of Columbus, said it was just a harmless joke when she placed duct tape around the pacifier in the baby girl's mouth, took the picture and uploaded it to Facebook.

"It started as just a joke. We put a little tape on the pacifier because we were being silly. We wanted to share it with friends because everybody that knows us knows we play around like that."

But the grandmother has since faced a barrage of cyber harassment and questions from law enforcement over the baby's safety.

"We're not horrible people that they are making us out to be," Sheaks told the station.

"We would never harm our children, never," the grandmother said.

Sheaks has posted other prop photos of her 2-month-old granddaughter, including one with the baby inside a large roasting pan surrounded by potatoes, WBNS reported. She never faced so much backlash from one of her pics and the entire family never had any complaints. 

"I'm getting all kinds of friend requests that we don't know for that reason," Tommy Sheaks, the baby's grandfather, told the station.

Child Services and a sheriff paid the family a visit after the images went viral. The child's mother said she approved the pictures and as of Wednesday no charges have been filed.

As for Sheaks, her photography days are over, she told the station.

"What we think is funny, other people don't (and) it will never happen again," the grandmother told WBNS. "It's definitely taught us a lesson."