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While I was surfing my gossip sites over eggs and pancakes I came across this article on Bossip. All I can do is shake my head. Why on earth would you allow a 10 year old to get a tattoo? I have nothing against tattoos I have 5 and will probably get another one before it’s all said and done. I am also an adult. I got my first tattoo at 17 yrs and 364 days, I had to beg them to let me because I was still technically 17. That tattoo has since been transformed into something else because it was a total “first tattoo”. You are supposed to be 18 for a reason, the hope is that you are mature enough to put some thought into what you are doing.
At ten years old you don’t even know what you want to do with your life. A ten year old doesn’t know that the decision he makes now can affect him later in life. That is why 10 year olds still have parents. Which in this case probably worked against him seeing as tho his mother was the one who took him to get the tattoo. I just don’t get it. Why on earth? Why not a tee-shirt? The man who tattooed his three year old is some kind of crazy.
Below is the excerpt.
A Cobb County mother was charged with misdemeanor child cruelty after she allegedly let her 10-year-old son get a tattoo in memory of his deceased brother, Channel 2 Action News reported. huntera Napier, of Acworth, told Channel 2 that her 12-year-old son, Malik, was struck and killed by a motorist in Macon about two years ago, and her other son, Gaquan, wanted a tattoo like hers to remember his older brother by.
“My son came to me and said, ‘Mama, I want to get a tattoo with Malik on it, rest in peace,’” Napier said. “It made me feel good to know to know that he wanted his brother on him.”
She said she did not know it is illegal in Georgia to tattoo anyone under the age of 18.
“What do I say to a child who wants to remember his brother? It’s not like he’s asking me if can I get him a Sponge Bob,” she said. “He’s asking me for something that’s in remembrance of his brother. Well, how do I tell a child no?”
Napier took her son to a tattoo artist in Smyrna. When the child went to school, someone noticed the tattoo and called authorities.
The mother was arrested Tuesday and spent that day and Wednesday morning in jail. In addition to the child cruelty count, she was charged with being a party to a crime. She has since been released to await a March court hearing.
“I always thought if a parent gives consent, then it’s fine,” Napier said. “How can somebody else say it’s not OK? He’s my child, and I have a right to say what I want for my child.”
Acworth police Chief Mike Wilkie disagreed. He told Channel 2 that police had no choice but to arrest Napier after investigating and consulting with the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office and Solicitor’s Office.
“We hope they can find something that can sustain them through that loss, but this is not the way, and it is illegal, and it was something we were bound by the law to investigate and to prosecute,” Wilkie said.
Police now want to speak with the person who allegedly applied the tattoo to Gaquan.
Other parents have been arrested before in Georgia for allegedly giving their children tattoos.
Last April, a man in Floyd County, in northwest Georgia, was found guilty of giving a tattoo to a person under 18 after he tattooed “DB,” for “Daddy’s Boy,” on the shoulder of his 3-year-old son. He was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and fined $300.
About two years ago, a couple in Summerville, also in northwest Georgia, were arrested and charged with cruelty to children, reckless conduct and illegal tattooing after they allegedly gave all six of their youngsters, ages 10 to 17, small cross tattoos.
