An American Lion

The “tattoo” device

A mother and father in Georgia used the device pictured above to tattoo their own children. Their own underage children:

Police say [Patty Jo Marsh and her husband Jacob Edwards Bartels] used a plastic pen body with a needle made from a guitar string connected to an electric motor to tattoo six children and themselves.

Five children, aged 10 to 17, got a cross-like tattoo on their hands and a sixth had “mom and dad” inked on his arm — in honor of you know who..

Only the youngest child was ink-free.

The Georgia Department of Family and Children’s Services was called. All the children were placed with other family members upon the couple’s arrest.

Marsh says she gave the children tattoos because “they asked us to.”

“It’s unusual,” said [Chattanooga? what the hell?] County Sheriff John Everett, to the city’s local paper. “I’ve never seen parents tattooing their kids like that.”

“I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be able to decide if they get one?” Marsh said according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after being released from jail on bail.

“They weren’t hurt by them,” Marsh said to the paper.

“We would never do anything to hurt them….I don’t understand why this is getting ‘blowed up’ so big.”

This is getting ‘blowed up’ so big because you’re trash, my good lady. Your children should not have to pay the price for your witless and toothless insanity. I’ve never been a fan of having the government tell people how to live, but this is one of those instances where the government needs to step in, on behalf of the children, and do something more than just walk away in frustration.

Do you get the feeling that Georgia, which is practically Florida anyway, is already two states too many for us to handle? My goodness.