News: Two Cases of Child Molestation and Tattooing Minors

Richard J. Landon, of Romulus, New York and Jeffery Lavon Newsome of Bainbridge, Georgia were both in the news this week for the same crime - molesting and tattooing minors. Certainly the tattooing is the lesser of these two crimes, but being in the private home of an unlicensed tattooer or any tattooer who knowingly breaks the law to ink someone who is underage is putting yourself in a very risky position. If the worst thing you come away with is a lousy tattoo or an infection, then you're one of the lucky ones. Please wait until you are old enough to legally get a tattoo in a professional studio!

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