A Georgia man was let off with a slap on the wrist after pleading guilty to tattooing his 3-year-old son.
A judge in Floyd County, Ga., ruled on Monday that Eugene Ashley must pay $300 and serve 12 months probation for giving his son a tattoo on his shoulder that said "DB" - short for "Daddy's Boy" - in 2009.
Ashley was arrested about a year later after an official from the Department of Child Services visited his house and spotted the tatted up tyke, the Rome News-Tribune newspaper reported.
It's illegal in Georgia to give a tattoo to someone younger than 18.
Prosecutors called the crime "egregious," but said that it would have been difficult to prosecute because it would rely solely on the toddler's testimony.
"I don't know if we would be able to elicit a testimony from a child," Patterson told the paper.
Ashley said he was drunk and didn't remember giving the toddler the tattoo, Georgia's WSBTV television reported.
The boy was taken into custody by child services and is now living with his uncle.
The uncle, George Hawkins, said that the boy remembered the tattoo and recalled that it hurt "a little bit," the station reported.
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I'm all for tattoos. I have a few of my own but what really bothers me about this is that It's a little baby. A little precious innocent pure being and he goes and desecrates it. :facepalm:
Here is another case of some serious parenting fail, also in Georgia Coincidence? probably not. I wonder how many other parent's out there are tattooing their children? This last case is a little bit different as the children are older. I know in certain places tattoos are rights of passage and rituals.
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This story is from 09 and it's been posted here before, so yeah.
It wasn't a big deal until boozer open his yap.
You just made yourself look like more of a dumbass, 2009 wasn't "Last year"
inorite! I thought it would be credible being NYdailynews but damn and this is wasn't where i originally heard it. It was from one of my silly women shows this morning...I was also looking for a reason why it would be talked about recently and i couldnt find anything.
That's what I thought . . .
This. I've met truly evil fucking kids. 5 year olds that will cry their souls out to manipulate their parents. 5 year olds that will lie and do anything to get rid of someone.
Fuckers need a good beating.
All this BS about domestic abuse, fuck it. Brats need to feel a belt buckle crush between their ass cheeks, it's the only way.