Tattoo Mom Busted for Inking 11-Year-Old

Tattoo Mom Busted for Inking 11-Year-Old
Article by: SlingerVille Staff
October 08, 2012

A mother from North Carolina was arrested after she was turned in for giving her 11-year-old daughter a tattoo of a heart near her shoulder.

Thirty-year-old Odessa Clay, from Greensboro, N.C. was charged with one count of tattooing a person under 18 because it is illegal to tattoo a minor in North Carolina, regardless if the parent allows it or not.

In her defense, Clay was unaware that tattooing a minor, especially her own daughter, was illegal.

“She asked me to do it,” Clay told ABC News affiliate WCTI-TV, adding that she only drew a heart outline and did not fill in the shape.

Clay said she believes an ex in-law turned her in after she filed a report against her 11-year-old daughter’s paternal grandfather.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/tattoo-mom-busted-for-inking-11-year-old/

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