Does not display image widgets on node edit form if the users can only crop their own images

I had an image field on the node.

Certain groups of editor can edit that node.

But my permissions only allows cropping of own images.

What this was doing was removing the field from my node form because the process_imagecrop_form_element method was returning void

/**
 * Process function for imagecrop-enabled fields.
 */
function process_imagecrop_form_element($element) {

  // Leave alone if we are on the field ui settings.
  if (!isset($element['#field_name']) || $element['#id'] == 'edit-picture-upload') {
    return $element;
  }

  $imagecrop = new ImageCrop();
  $file = NULL;
  $fid = 0;
  $new_element = isset($element['#file']);
  if ($new_element) {
    $imagecrop->setFile($element['#file']);
  }
  // Media widget
  else {
    $new_element = FALSE;
    if (!empty($element['fid']['#value'])) {
      $file = file_load($element['fid']['#value']);
      // Only add when the file is an image
      if ($file->type != 'image') {
        return $element;
      }
      $imagecrop->loadFile($element['fid']['#value'], TRUE);
    }
  }

  // Leave alone if no access.
  global $user;
  if (!$imagecrop->hasUserAccess($user)) {
    return; 
  }

  $enabled_styles = imagecrop_get_fields_enabled_styles($element['#entity_type'], $element['#field_name'], $element['#bundle']);

  // Leave element when no image styles are found for current field.
  if (count($enabled_styles) == 0) {
    return $element;
  }

  if ($new_element) {

    $element['imagecrop'] = array(
      '#type' => 'markup',
      '#weight' => 10,
      '#suffix' => '</div>',
    );

    if ($element['fid']['#value']) {
      $element['imagecrop']['#prefix'] = '<div class="imagecrop form-item">';
      $element['imagecrop']['#markup'] = imagecrop_linkitem($element['fid']['#value'], $element, $enabled_styles);
    }
    else {
      $element['imagecrop']['#prefix'] = '<div class="description">';
      $element['imagecrop']['#markup'] = t('After uploading an image you\'ll be able to crop it.');
    }

  }
  // Media module
  else {

    $fid = (empty($element['fid']['#value']) ? 0 : $element['fid']['#value']);
    $prefix = '<div class="imagecrop form-item" style="display: '. ($fid ? 'inline-block' : 'none' ).'">';
    $markup = imagecrop_linkitem($element['fid']['#value'], $element, $enabled_styles);
    $element['preview']['#suffix'] .= $prefix . $markup . '</div>';

  }

  return $element;

}