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Georgia Mom Arrested for Allowing 10-Year-Old to Get Tattoo

Georgia Mom Arrested for Allowing 10-Year-Old to Get Tattoo Email 543 Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print ht Chuntera Napier nt 120119 wblog Georgia Mom Arrested for Allowing 10 Year Old to Get Tattoo (Photo courtesy: Cobb County Sheriff's Office) 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 ABC News’ Atlanta affiliate WSBTV. “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?”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/georgia-mom-arrested-for-allowing-10-year-old-to-get-tattoo/

What laws have been broken, I'm not defending her but is there a specific law that covers this stuff?

Originally posted by Major_Lexington
What laws have been broken, I'm not defending her but is there a specific law that covers this stuff?

Georgia

Prohibits the tattooing of anyone under age 18 by anyone other than a licensed osteopath or technician acting under the direct supervision of a licensed physician or osteopath.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_tattooing_in_the_United_States

Had a feeling the under 18 part might be the issue, too lazy to Google/wiki it!

My problem with this is that culturally and religious exceptions have been made with what is illegal for certain groups of people.

So I kinda have an issue with this law which would prohibit certain people from practicing their beliefs and seems to be imposing european western views on people who dont share them and shouldnt have to.

I am referring to amerindian tattoo practices.

Originally posted by Nietzschean

I am referring to amerindian tattoo practices.

The US government gives Native Indians a massive leeway, likely due to the US Government's past of enforcing near-genocide and ass****ing the native tribes out of lands their fore-bearers had settled centuries before..

Malak died from a car crash? I thought he died when Revan slew him? 313

But this situation is iffy. However, tattoos can be removed these days with out ugly scaring like in the past. I would say that a parent should not be able to put tattoos on their children's more private areas but an arm or shoulder tat should be okay. It's hard to say...

Maybe limit the age to a test on the child or something?

I don't see why you'd allow a ten year-old to make that decision in the first place.

Originally posted by Astner
I don't see why you'd allow a ten year-old to make that decision in the first place.

ask yourself this, why is this being prohibited but not circumcision?

Originally posted by Nietzschean

ask yourself this, why is this being prohibited but not circumcision?

Because one doesn't make millions a year for the medical industry and another does.

Originally posted by Robtard
Because one doesn't make millions a year for the medical industry and another does.

Is it really millions or is it billions?

Originally posted by Astner
I don't see why you'd allow a ten year-old to make that decision in the first place.

Seems like an easy decisions for most 10 year olds to make.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Is it really millions or is it billions?

Billions seems high, but it's likely in the upper millions. I don't know for certain.

Originally posted by Nietzschean
ask yourself this, why is this being prohibited but not circumcision?

Originally posted by dadudemon
Seems like an easy decisions for most 10 year olds to make.

Just imagine if your parents allowed you to tattoo the name of your fourth grade crush on your wrist when you were around that age, because you wanted it then. Wouldn't you hold them accountable for bad parenting?

Originally posted by Astner
Yes, but they're not mature enough to make such a decision.

Because a tattoo is a serious decision?

This isn't Congo or the jungles of Columbia.

DADUDEMon which dish is this which you make your sight picture..??

The dish? It is called "Orange Danish Rolls".

If you are 10, do NOT get a tattoo of Orange Danish Rolls: they look much better, fresh, than in a tattoo version.

Apart from the mother's stupid decision in allowing her 10 yr old to get tattooed...the BIGGER ISSUE is what PROFESSIONAL STUDIO or ARTIST would tattoo a 10 yr old?

Here in Australia it's around a $17000 fine if a tattooist tattoos a minor & we're talking about if the client's around 16 or 17 & either submitted a fake ID or the tattooist didn't care.

A professional tattooist would've known that the most logical reason NOT to tattoo a 10 yr old is that as he grows older & his body develops muscle tone, that tattoo would be stretched & distorted beyond recognition.

what a stupid law.

I have changed my mind. A person should be 18 before they can get a tattoo.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Because a tattoo is a serious decision?

Besides, as Esau Cairn said. The child grows, and an image like a face might be stretched out and become unrecognizable as the child grows.