Sometimes there's just no right answer. For most of us, the idea of a 10-year-old with a tattoo sounds ridiculous, but then something like this happens.
"My son came to me and said, 'mom, I want a tattoo with Malik on it, rest in peace.' What do I say to a child that wants to remember his brother?"
Chuntera Napier's 12-year-old son, Malik, was hit and killed by a teen-age driver in Macon, Georgia. His 10-year-old brother, Gaquan wanted a tattoo to memorialize him.
Mom said yes.
“It made me feel good to know that he wanted his brother on him.”
So the family went to a tattoo parlor and had this tattoo made. His brother's name and jersey number, rest in peace. That's when things got ugly. Someone at Malik's school called the police citing a Georgia law from 2010: "It shall be unlawful for any person to tattoo the body of any person under the age of 18, except that of a physician or osteopath.”
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“We hope that they can find something that can sustain them through the loss, but this is not the way,” said Acworth Police Chief Mike Wilkie. “And it is illegal and it's something that we were bound by the law to investigate and to prosecute.”
Now mom could be facing charges and the tattoo artist too.
