Tattoos on Minors Gaining Attention by Authorities

Monday, December 6, 2010

Tattoos on Minors Gaining Attention by Authorities

Inflicting Ink Tattoo shop in Portsmouth RI will refuse to tattoo any minor under any conditions, and does not support underground tattooing of any kind. We are happy to see the authorities increasing the activity to stop this deadly practice in other states and push consistently for stricter laws and guidelines concerning sterile facilities and tattoo practices, for all tattoo shops in RI.

The following article deals with a situation in Pennsylvania where a minor was tattood by a 28 year old man in his home. The girl was 14 years old. The full article follows below.

Man charged with giving minor a tattoo in Noxen Twp.

By Michael J. Rudolf
November 2, 2010

A 28-year-old man has been charged with giving a tattoo to an underage girl without her parents' consent in Noxen Township.

State police charged Christopher C. Everetts with corruption of minors and illegal tattooing or body piercing. Police listed Everetts' address as the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre.

However, previous criminal records in Luzerne County give his address as Dallas.

According to the police complaint, on April 23 Trooper Robert Kennedy

responded to a home in Noxen Township by the parents of a 14-year-old girl.

The parents said their daughter had tattoos, which she had kept hidden from them for more than two weeks.

When Kennedy interviewed the girl, she said on April 6, she was at a swimming hole along Tannery Street with some friends when Everetts and another person arrived and joined the conversation.

The girl said the subject turned to the tattoos that Everetts had. Everetts offered to give the girl a tattoo for $20, the report says.

The girl ran home, got money, and returned to the swimming hole. She told police she and her sister went with Everetts to a house on Stull Road.

While at the house, the report says, Everetts took out some tattooing equipment and cleaned them. He proceeded to tattoo a four-inch black cross on the back of the girl's neck, and a crescent moon on her hip.

The girl paid Everetts and left.

The girl's sister told police she witnessed Everetts do the tattooing. She said Everetts offered to give her a tattoo as well, but she declined.

Police said they were unable to locate Everetts until Oct. 25, when they were notified that he was incarcerated in Luzerne County.

When Trooper Steven Scoble questioned Everetts, he acknowledged that he gave the girl a tattoo, but disagreed with the amount he was paid, saying he charged the girl $50. Scoble said that without being asked,

Everetts stated that he "had an idea" that the girl was underage, but did not know she was 14.

Everetts was placed in the Wyoming County Correctional Facility in lieu of $15,000 bail.
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Jeff Goyette was born and raised in Massachusetts where tattooing was illegal, and to this day is only allowed on a per community basis, with each community deciding for themselves whether to allow it or not. Jeff still wanted to be a tattoo artist, and so learned his trade and took it on the road with the tattoo tour where he continued his tattoo education through coursework and tour experience.

In 1993 Jeff opened Inflicting Ink Tattoo Studio in Portsmouth RI as a way to get out of touring and establish some roots in the community. He has been in this location for 17 years. After a few years in the shop however, he wanted to use his traveling experience to be able to bring tattooing to people who might not have the chance to get to a brick-and-mortar shop.

So he built the Inflicting Ink Traveling Tattoo truck, over 73 feet of truck housing a state of the art, sterile, mobile tattoo facility ~ there is nothing else like it on the planet, literally, as the Guiness Book of World Records has named it the largest tattoo facility in the world, but simply has no category to place it in.

The truck travels to fairs, events, concerts, and even does private parties, drawing large crowds and those who do not have access to a local tattoo studio for their body art. Jeff loves when he can give back to a community, and often simply brings the truck to draw in numbers at charity events whenever possible, whether any tattooing will be done or not.

He and his artists model their work on the belief that a customer should always feel that they have received a quality piece of art, that the work is consistent, and that they can be proud of their tattoo as well as where it came from.