Do you think he was let off the hook too easily?



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/04/06/2011-04-06_georgia_man_pleads_guilty_to_tattooing_3yearold_son_tots_tat_said_db__for_daddys.html

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Georgia man pleads guilty to tattooing 3-year-old son; tot's tat said 'DB' -- for 'Daddy's Boy'

BY Philip Caulfield
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 2:00 PM

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myfoxatlanta.com
Eugene Ashley was arrested in 29 for giving his 3-year-old son a tattoo.

A Georgia man was let off with a slap on the wrist after pleading guilty to tattooing his 3-year-old son.

A judge in Floyd County, Ga., ruled on Monday that Eugene Ashley must pay $300 and serve 12 months probation for giving his son a tattoo on his shoulder that said "DB" - short for "Daddy's Boy" - in 2009.

Ashley was arrested about a year later after an official from the Department of Child Services visited his house and spotted the tatted up tyke, the Rome News-Tribune newspaper reported.

It's illegal in Georgia to give a tattoo to someone younger than 18.

Prosecutors called the crime "egregious," but said that it would have been difficult to prosecute because it would rely solely on the toddler's testimony.

"I don't know if we would be able to elicit a testimony from a child," Patterson told the paper.

Ashley said he was drunk and didn't remember giving the toddler the tattoo, Georgia's WSBTV television reported.

The boy was taken into custody by child services and is now living with his uncle.

The uncle, George Hawkins, said that the boy remembered the tattoo and recalled that it hurt "a little bit," the station reported.

In July, another Georgia couple was slapped with child cruelty charges for tattooing six of their children with a crude needle made from a guitar string.

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Ashley's son told his uncle the tattoo hurt 'a little bit.' (myfoxarizona.com)

Yeah he got off way too easily. A higher fine, 12 months of community service & then probation would have been better. Hope some doctor offers to remove that uglyass thing.

What an idiot. These are the type dolts that are out protesting gay day at amusement parks, LOL!

Anyone who would expose their toddler to the risk of infection and pain of a tattoo (especially a homemade one) does not deserve to ever be alone with that child again. What do you think was going through that poor baby's mind while his father was digging into his skin etching that? If he was so callous to do this then it wouldn't be a huge leap to suspect that he'd more easily beat or neglect him.

And what grown man wouldn't want a "Daddy's Boy" tattoo?

Poor kid. A guitar string? I can only imagine how much that must have hurt.

I find it more alarming that he claims not remembering tattooing the child due to drunkenness. What else happens to that kid that nobody remembers?

2xy wrote:

I find it more alarming that he claims not remembering tattooing the child due to drunkenness. What else happens to that kid that nobody remembers?

I wasn't there but I think he used that as his way out.

He definetly should have gotten a stiffer sentence.

Tony Marino wrote:

He definetly should have gotten a stiffer sentence.

He was let off entirely too easy.

I think he needs to permanently lose custody of his kids and be sterilized.

He certainly got off easy on that one.

2xy wrote:

I find it more alarming that he claims not remembering tattooing the child due to drunkenness. What else happens to that kid that nobody remembers?

and i dont even wanna think about that..

What a disturbing article! ITA that he got off WAY too easily! He should have been charged with child abuse and thrown in jail. ITA that it's disturbing he was so drunk he doesn't remember doing it. That poor child! I hope the uncle will be a much better parent than this idiot.

You have got to be kidding me. I have seen a lot people do some stupid shit, but this is really, really stupid. I hope they demanded that he pay to have it removed.

tmontyb wrote:

What an idiot. These are the type dolts that are out protesting gay day at amusement parks, LOL!

True!