Mother allows 8 year old to get tatoo.

[Tyme2fish]

WTF? Just saw this on the news. The young 8 year old male wanted to honor his deceased brother with a tatoo that read, "Monique (or whatever his name was) R.I.P."

The mother stated on the video interview, "He wanted to honor his brother. What could I do?"

Well you stupid,welfare trash p.o.s. excuse for a mother, you could tell him he must wait until he's 18 years old and better prepared mentally to make a permanent decision. That's called being a parent and not just a baby factory. Something tells me we'll see this young boy in the news sometime in the near future with his mother wailing and screaming that he was taken away so young.

Geez, I hate this stuff.

Update, the boy was 10 years old. I guess that makes everything O.K.

[bassin_bug]

I recently stopped in a little country store a couple of miles from my house to pick up some orange juice. Just as I opened the cooler, I saw a little hand from the other side push it toward me. I couldn't believe my eyes! That kid had tats from his shoulder to his fingers. I said, "Wow, look at those tats! Come out and let me see them." Out walked 3 children ages 6, 8, and 9, all with large tats. The 9 year-old had his shirt off and his chest and arms were almost covered in tattoos.

The mother looked like a 2-dollar street h o. She was all excited that her children were covered in tattoos and wanted me to know that, although they cost a ton of money, "The kids all wanted tattoos and they let them get them."

She had a huge monstrosity of a tattoo on each of her arms. Nasty looking crap. I still think she should be arrested for messing up those little kids.

[Big Gills]

Sad, very sad allowing young children to make decisions like this at that young innocent age. No parenting going on here for sure. Next stop for these kids is the needles that have the hard stuff in them. i am sure mommy dearest wont stop that either! Unfit parent. Call Child Protection Services.

[kydonky]

The tattoo craze is just horendous. It is glorified in movies, tv, all media.

On some of these children you see with tattoos I think "most" are the temporary tattoos that last for a couple of weeks.

It's difficult to spot a person under 35 without a tattoo these days.

I don't see this as art either. Most are just grafics traced and then inked in and colored.

I have yet to see a tattoo that I would consider a work of art. I would'nt let Picasso tattoo me for that matter.

[DJD]

I don't mind tats on adults. I'm surprised folks put them on their neck and face but hey we all make stupid choices!
Tats on kids is wrong. Kinda surprised any place of business would do that....??? Of course Leroy who was just released from the pokey prolly do it for a little fun time with mama or a blunt.....just sayin.

[jcb]

"I am going to get a tattoo to express my individuality. Like 30,000,000 other people".

[RoadToad]

Tyme, I think you typo'ed when you started this thread. I'm sure you meant to the word "mother" in quotes, didn't you?

[bassin_bug]

Well, the "mother" in the news has been arrested. The 10 year-old child had his deceased brother's jersey numbers tattooed on his arm. Like most of you, I saw a video of an interview with the "mother" and she acted like a nutjob telling the news reporter, "He wanted the tattoo and I didn't know what else to do," (or something like that).

I have a daughter over 18 who recently got 3 tattoos. A couple of weeks later she came to me and said, "Mom, I'm late on my rent and car payment, can you lend me some money?" I said, "Absolutely NOT! Take your tattoos back to the parlor and get yourself a refund. That should be enough to make your payments."

She was less than thrilled at my sarcastic remarks.

[RoadToad]

Glad to hear she's being prosecuted. What I don't get is how it's legal for the tattoo parlor to do this? Or was it a homemade job? I mean, what self-respecting adult could take a tattoo gun to a child?

[Tyme2fish]

A Georgia mother who was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old to get a tattoo said she had no idea it was illegal for him to get one, even with her consent.
When Chuntera Napier’s son Gaquan Napier asked her if he could get a memorial tattoo for his 12-year-old brother Malik who died after being hit by a car, Napier was touched by the request.
“My son came to me and said, ‘Mom, I want to get a tattoo with Malik on it, rest in peace,’” she told [COLOR=#0000ff]ABC News’ Atlanta affiliate WSBTV.[/COLOR] “It made me feel good to know that he wanted his brother on him.”
When Gaquan Napier was asked why he wanted the tattoo, he said, “Because it represents my brother.”
“What do I say to a child who wants to remember his brother? It’s not like he was asking me, ‘Can I get Sponge Bob?” Napier said. “He asked me [for] something that’s in remembrance of his brother. How can I say no?”
Gaquan got a tattoo on his right arm of his brother’s name and his former basketball jersey number. Napier also has memorial tattoos for her son on her right arm.
When someone at his school noticed the tattoo and contacted authorities, Napier was arrested on Tuesday and charged with misdemeanor cruelty and being a party to a crime, [COLOR=#0000ff]according to WSBTV[/COLOR]. Napier bonded out of jail on Wednesday but is shocked that her consent was not enough for her son to get a tattoo.
“I always thought that if a parent gave consent, then it was fine,” she said. “How can somebody else say that it’s not okay? He’s my child, and I have the right to say what I want for my child. I can’t go tell anybody else what I want for their child.”
A Georgia law from 2010 states, “It shall be unlawful for any person to tattoo the body of any person under the age of 18, except a physician or osteopath.”
Police say that Napier has refused to cooperate in naming the tattoo artist who could also be prosecuted for violating the law.
Acworth Chief of Police Michael Wilkie told ABCNews.com in an emailed statement that the tattoo appeared “to be the work of an amateur” and said one police theory is that when Napier took the child to get a memorial tattoo similar to her own, she discovered it was illegal and took him somewhere where it could be done “illegally like a ‘jail house’ tattoo.”
“Unfortunately, the mother has elected not to cooperate with the police any further in this investigation,” Wilkie said. “The tragedy of this is that the child’s tattoos are some sort of memorial to a sibling who was lost in a car accident a few years ago. I understand from the investigators that there are several memorial to the deceased child in the apartment where they live. It may be that professional or religious counseling for their/her grief would be more helpful than anything.”

[kydonky]

Did I mention that I got my first tattoo in the 3rd grade?

It's a beauty, scull and cross bones on my right arm.

I got kicked out of school when I got it, not because of the tattoo but because I turned 21. They said I had been in the 3rd grade long enough.

[DJD]

Did I mention that I got my first tattoo in the 3rd grade?

It's a beauty, scull and cross bones on my right arm.

I got kicked out of school when I got it, not because of the tattoo but because I turned 21. They said I had been in the 3rd grade long enough.

LOL! Awesome post LMAO....

Funny thing is I had the Grim Reaper on my upper arm while in the army. It was when I was so "gung ho" about the badass aspect of Air Assualt and jumping out of Helicopters on ropes and rappelling to the ground. Training and jumping off tower skids was a high like no other!! I ate it up!!

Well I was so broke all I could afford was the Grim Reaper and the "Death from above" text had to wait untill I could afford it.

After having it for a few years I decided I didn't want it or add to it so I had it removed via laser. It hurt pretty good getting it but taking it off was just as bad!!

My advice....if you get a tat get a small one that is for you and your lovers eyes only.