10 yr old gets Tattoo, Mom goes to Jail

[Jesda]

Tattoos are gayer than Clay Aiken, but this is a blatant violation of freedom and individual choice.

[Bubba1]

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How's a tattoo any different than letting your child get body piercings?

Tattoos are permanent, most body piercings (like for earrings) are not.

[300ZXttZMAN]

Mom's consent should have been enough. A name and basketball jersey number, thats it. Non-offensive, it may have even helped him cope with the loss. Is it illegal for a child to get their ears pierced in GA? Doubt it, neither should a tattoo.

I agree. It would have been one thing if he wanted like a tattoo of a pro wrestler but it was his brothers name for crying out loud.

[300ZXttZMAN]

Plus now the kid has lost his brother and his mom is in jail for a little bit.

(ALSO I hate tattoos and will never get one) But this is my $.02

[DJ_B_Easy]

Tattoos are gayer than Clay Aiken

Says the man with the Kelly Clarkson avatar....

[numbnuts240]

stalking miss clarkson hardly qualifies as gay.

btw, jesda, tonight is garbage night in her neighborhood

[themadscientist]

I just makes him a chubby chaser. Hell, I harbor an inexplicable fascination with Snooki. I think I have the more embarrassing infatuation. His target is probably not sticky.

[skydragoness]

2. A 10 yr old's body is not done growing, which means whatever you ink now can distort as they grow. So what seems like a nice spontaneous gesture, could look bad in just a few years.

3. The tattoo might be what YOU want, but a 10 yr old child is not capable of deciding for themselves if that is something they want for the rest of their lives.
We're not talking about schooling, life saving drugs, or special operations here, we're talking about a cosmetic adornment. So the special circumstance argument doesn't apply.

The law is what it is. If you feel that strongly about using a tattoo to remember a departed loved one, get 'ir done... to yourself. But not your child. When your kid turns 18, if they feel they still want it, let it be THEIR adult choice, not yours.

Especially on #2
Not only is it stupid for a 10 yr old to have a tattoo (because they're a child) but it would be a waste of money in a couple of years. He's going to wonder why everyone is asking him about that cool Dali tattoo when he's 20.

Also, not sure if anyone brought it up already, but a unscrupulous tattoo artist that would actually tattoo a minor is probably not also taking proper health/sanitary precautions either...maybe he/she was a house-call tattoo artist because I can't imagine a *real* shop letting that kid even walk through the door unless they thought his mom was getting one. I don't think a mom should go to jail for this but some heavy fines perhaps? That I don't know. (shrugs)

[worldisgrand]

I myself have tattoo's, I am also a tattoo artist, I am also a parent: If a child is asking for a tattoo I would definitely have to consider the situation and if he or she is really wanting too. Now a 10 year old is a little young still, but someone 16 or 17 I don't see how someone can go from 17 one day to 18 the next and there mindset changes that much. If someone of any age is willing to get a tattoo and take the pain more power to them. However, what I can't stand is when parents do this:
http://www.sojones.com/wordpress/wp-con ... ercing.jpg
You cannot tell me that that is less harmful than a 10 year old wanting and getting a tattoo. Especially one that is in memory of someone. This is why my wife and I are waiting until my daughter can ask us if she can get her ears pierced.

And yes piercings are forever, its called a scar and scar tissue, just cause its not brightly colored and shoved in your face doesn't mean it isn't permanent. So anyone that says piercings aren't permanent obviously has never gotten one and should climb back into the little box they live in. Cause you obviously don't know what your talking about.

I've read some people on here talk about how at that age they don't know what they want and yet I hear all the time about how this person doesn't like there tattoo or this person regrets getting this. I've come to realize that most of you don't know what you want regardless of your age. I don't hear you raising hell about the tribes that use rings to stretch girls necks or shove bones through noses of children. So stop your boo hooing about this mother did this. The people you should be worrying about is your own children and whether or not there getting tattoo's by guys like me. LOL

[nissangirl74]

Here we go again....

If your pre-teen wanted a tattoo, would you let her get one? A North Carolina mom who moonlights as a tattoo artist figured it would be fine, and now she's in trouble with police for giving her 11-year-old daughter a tattoo.

"She asked me to do it," 30-year-old Odessa Clay, who sports plenty of her own body art, told WCTI-TV.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/mom-ar ... 00542.html

[themadscientist]

So if the 11 year old tells you to do something, you just do it? Who's the adult here?

[Jesda]

And just to be devil's advocate, what about if the child is sick? There are certain types of imaging that require a tattoo on the body to line up the MRI scanner... Can we lock up the doctor for ordering it on a child too?

In the first post:

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.”

[Jesda]

stalking miss clarkson hardly qualifies as gay.

btw, jesda, tonight is garbage night in her neighborhood

She needs to learn how to eat fried chicken. She wastes so much meat by not cleaning off the bone.

[Bmore-coupe]

Anyone ever seen that movie freakenomics where they actually analyze people with dumb a** names and the kind of people they'll grow up to be based on them? Its on Netflix... highly recommend.

[Bmore-coupe]

I myself have tattoo's, I am also a tattoo artist, I am also a parent: If a child is asking for a tattoo I would definitely have to consider the situation and if he or she is really wanting too. Now a 10 year old is a little young still, but someone 16 or 17 I don't see how someone can go from 17 one day to 18 the next and there mindset changes that much. If someone of any age is willing to get a tattoo and take the pain more power to them. However, what I can't stand is when parents do this:
http://www.sojones.com/wordpress/wp-con ... ercing.jpg
You cannot tell me that that is less harmful than a 10 year old wanting and getting a tattoo. Especially one that is in memory of someone. This is why my wife and I are waiting until my daughter can ask us if she can get her ears pierced.

And yes piercings are forever, its called a scar and scar tissue, just cause its not brightly colored and shoved in your face doesn't mean it isn't permanent. So anyone that says piercings aren't permanent obviously has never gotten one and should climb back into the little box they live in. Cause you obviously don't know what your talking about.

I've read some people on here talk about how at that age they don't know what they want and yet I hear all the time about how this person doesn't like there tattoo or this person regrets getting this. I've come to realize that most of you don't know what you want regardless of your age. I don't hear you raising hell about the tribes that use rings to stretch girls necks or shove bones through noses of children. So stop your boo hooing about this mother did this. The people you should be worrying about is your own children and whether or not there getting tattoo's by guys like me. LOL

I agree with everything said in this post.