Couple arrested for giving kids tattoos

2010-01-03 11:17:01

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5872

A northwest Georgia couple arrested for giving six of their children homemade tattoos say they didn't do anything wrong. The kids, they say, wanted the tattoos to be like Mom and Dad.

I'm their mother," Patty Jo Marsh said late Saturday. "Shouldn't I be able to decide if they get one?"

Georgia law prohibits tattoos from anyone other than a licensed professional. Children under 18 are also prohibited from getting tattoos.

Marsh and her husband, Jacob Bartels, did the tattoos in their Summerville home. They cleaned up a tattoo machine someone gave them, and used guitar strings as a needle. Out of the seven children in their custody, only the youngest child did not get a tattoo.

"They weren't hurt by them," Marsh said. "We would never do anything to hurt them."

Marsh said the children, ages 10 to 17, wanted the small cross tattoos, and the couple did them after Thanksgiving. But when two of the children spent a weekend after Christmas with their biological mother, she reported it to DFACS and police.

http://www.ajc.com/news/couple-arrested … 65194.html
Do you think this is child abuse?

2010-01-03 11:19:13

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Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6907|London, England

Georgia law prohibits tattoos from anyone other than a licensed professional. Children under 18 are also prohibited from getting tattoos.

Well, they violated two laws. You could have written the headline as ''Couple arrested for tatoo'ing without a license'' and completely omitting the fact that they did it to minors and the police/law would still have a strong case.

2010-01-03 11:21:33

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Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6691|North Carolina

Yeah, this is a case of bad laws perhaps. Laws must be uniform in their enforcement, but maybe this incident will encourage amending these laws.

2010-01-03 11:24:14

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13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6784

Mom and Dad would probly be in less trouble if they just

beat the fuck outta the kids.

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2010-01-03 11:27:55

#5

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6907|London, England

Turquoise wrote:
Yeah, this is a case of bad laws perhaps. Laws must be uniform in their enforcement, but maybe this incident will encourage amending these laws.

Well it's not really bad laws. Better to have bans on unlicensed tattooists and against tattooing minors than to allow it and have all the bad shit that could be associated with it. You get these one off cases but overall the laws are for the better, IMO.

2010-01-03 11:29:51

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Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6691|North Carolina

Mekstizzle wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
Yeah, this is a case of bad laws perhaps. Laws must be uniform in their enforcement, but maybe this incident will encourage amending these laws.
Well it's not really bad laws. Better to have bans on unlicensed tattooists and against tattooing minors than to allow it and have all the bad shit that could be associated with it. You get these one off cases but overall the laws are for the better, IMO.

Well, I'm thinking that maybe certain exceptions can be made. Like, maybe parents should be allowed to give their kids tattoos of a small size once they reach a certain age.

I get what you mean though.

2010-01-04 00:37:54

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ruisleipa: Member; +149|6508|teh FIN-land

A northwest Georgia couple arrested for giving six of their children homemade tattoos say they didn't do anything wrong. The kids, they say, wanted the tattoos to be like Mom and Dad.

I'm their mother," Patty Jo Marsh said late Saturday. "Shouldn't I be able to decide if they get one?"

Georgia law prohibits tattoos from anyone other than a licensed professional. Children under 18 are also prohibited from getting tattoos.

Marsh and her husband, Jacob Bartels, did the tattoos in their Summerville home. They cleaned up a tattoo machine someone gave them, and used guitar strings as a needle. Out of the seven children in their custody, only the youngest child did not get a tattoo.

"They weren't hurt by them," Marsh said. "We would never do anything to hurt them."

Marsh said the children, ages 10 to 17, wanted the small cross tattoos, and the couple did them after Thanksgiving. But when two of the children spent a weekend after Christmas with their biological mother, she reported it to DFACS and police.

GOOD.

2010-01-04 01:25:50

#8

Chou: Member; +737|7077

The kids, they say, wanted the tattoos to be like Mom and Dad.

Stupidity runs in the family.

2010-01-04 01:31:12

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Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7003

I hope they infect their kids and die.

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2010-01-04 03:41:59

#10

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,817|6392|eXtreme to the maX

Mekstizzle wrote:
Well, they violated two laws. You could have written the headline as ''Couple arrested for tatoo'ing without a license'' and completely omitting the fact that they did it to minors and the police/law would still have a strong case.

Simple enough.

Fuck Israel

2010-01-04 10:41:21