Homemade Tats anyone?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution- A northwest Georgia couple arrested for giving six of their children homemade tattoos say they didn't do anything wrong. The kids, they say, wanted the tattoos to be like Mom and Dad.

"I'm their mother," Patty Jo Marsh said late Saturday. "Shouldn't I be able to decide if they get one?"

Georgia law prohibits tattoos from anyone other than a licensed professional. Children under 18 are also prohibited from getting tattoos.

Marsh and her husband, Jacob Bartels, did the tattoos in their Summerville home. They cleaned up a tattoo machine someone gave them, and used guitar strings as a needle. Out of the seven children in their custody, only the youngest child did not get a tattoo.

"They weren't hurt by them," Marsh said. "We would never do anything to hurt them."

Marsh said the children, ages 10 to 17, wanted the small cross tattoos, and the couple did them after Thanksgiving. But when two of the children spent a weekend after Christmas with their biological mother, she reported it to DFACS and police.























Oh my good lord. What goes through some parents heads these days? I can maybe see the 17 year old, but your giving your 10 year old child a home made tattoo? Bring them to someone who is a professional at least. Using guitar strings as needles? You couldnt even afford to run to that dollar store and get some legit needles? What goes on in the South? The best part is when they interview these people and they don't even think they've done anything wrong. Y'all are funny.