Thread: Parent's rights or Nanny State?

At first I was pretty disgusted . . . actually that hasn't changed . . . but the argument about circumcision makes sense, though it doesn't excuse what this moron did.

Child's tattoo: disfigurement or poor parenting?



A judge is set to decide whether mayhem charges carrying a potential life sentence will remain against a Californian man who had a gang tattoo etched onto his seven-year-old son's hip.
At a preliminary hearing on Thursday, lawyers for Enrique Gonzalez and tattoo artist Travis Gorman argued that a tattoo does not meet the statute's standards of permanent disfigurement.
They also raised the issue of which is more painful and permanent - a quarter-sized tattoo or circumcision?
Fresno County Superior Court Judge Hillary Chittick said on Monday she wanted time to think about whether the mayhem charge was warranted.
The duo arrested in April are members of a Fresno street gang. They also are charged with crimes related to furthering gang activities.
AP

Child's tattoo: disfigurement or poor parenting?

Gang members should be encouraged to explore castration as a gang membership ritual.

Think they would be dumb enough to fall for it.

Look at his right eye brow and his name.
That should be enough to put his ass in prison for a few years at least.

But Nawty has a good idea as well.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Look at his right eye brow and his name. That should be enough to put his ass in prison for a few years at least.

At least he was old enough to decide on that eyebrow piercing . . . as for his name . . . well . . .
As for 'Mayhem' having the potential of a life sentence . . . never heard of it, but if that's what it is . . .

Originally Posted by Shitdigit

If this "street cred" mentality plays out to it's conclusion you will end up seeing kids with facial tattoos.

That's the problem, isn't it. If this is deemed legal and not 'disfigured' then what will the next dickwad decide to do to his children

Originally Posted by blackgang

Look at his right eye brow and his name. That should be enough to put his ass in prison for a few years at least.

yes, guilty as charged

he is a spic, so must be

This happened in NZ a few years ago. The tattooist got charged for assult on a youth. Ya gotta be 18 man!

unless you have a stupid parent who gives consent!

nup, not in NZ. 18 is 18 and no debate. My dad would have given me consent if he could but he couldn't. But I got a dodgy tattooist to do it anyway.

Indeed. I think its wrong to remove a childs 10 skin (Hey, not trying to show off or anything) or tattoo them. Let them choose when they are old enough. Poor little bastard might not want to be a jew or a gang mamber when he grows up...

I think this is amusing -- the far left campaigns to defend Polanski for drugging, raping and sodomising a 13-yr-old girl for which he fled to Switzerland in 1978 to escape charges, but you's all in a tizzy over this?


I wanted to know if the kid wanted it. Hard to tell from this info: husband and estranged wife disagree.



Gonzalez granted his son's request for the tattoo because the son begged "I want to be like you," the defense says. But the prosecution says Gonzalez held the boy down while Gorman forcibly applied it.
Either way, says Levenson, "I don't know if children can readily give permission for a tattoo."
In court this week Gonzalez' estranged wife, Tequisha Oloizia, testified that her son suddenly refused to change clothes in front of her after he returned from an Easter break visit with his father. "I thought it was a boy thing," she said.
A few weeks later, as he lay stretching in his pajamas, she saw a black mark on her son's hip.
Gonzalez told her the tattoo was "the result of a misunderstanding" and promised to have it covered with flesh-colored ink, she said.
Instead, this month the boy began laser removal at a local doctor's office, performed after a topical application of painkiller and a local injection of lidocaine.
Child's tattoo: disfigurement or poor parenting? - San Diego, California News Station - KFMB Channel 8 - cbs8.com

Originally Posted by Shitdigit

The Jews have a religiously historical precedence dating back two millennia and they stop at circumcision.

Its not just Jews, but also Muslims and animist and traditional religions and beliefs - to which I would also say that there should be an age of consent.

I'd agree with <egads> the kiwi Reffo

Originally Posted by Kiwi_Refugee

Let them choose when they are old enough.

Oh dear, it it a matter of political leanings again for the old hag?

Her life must be very, very lonely . . . maybe she could travel outside of North America for once in the life and see what rot she vomits out time after time

Na, americans can travel anywhere and see NOTHING! All they do is point out how bad everything is compaired to there country and treat the world like a theme park.

Originally Posted by Kiwi_Refugee

Na, americans can travel anywhere and see NOTHING!

The sad thing is that he/she/it is Canadian and wants nothing more than to be a citizen of the USA, but she can't enter the cuntry for 'legal reasons it seems

Canadians are Americans last time I looked