While some parents consider it fashionable to have their infant daughter's ears pierced, concerns about infection should be foremost in the mind of anyone getting any part of their body pierced. In order to determine whether your child is old enough to have a piercing, consider that they need to be able to care properly for the piercing, as well as keep dirty hands and fingers away from the site.
Most physicians will pierce your child's ears in their office, as a sterile procedure, and as long as the baby is up to date with their immunizations. You will have to keep their hands away from their ears, and keep the site very clean however. Also, remember that with toddlers, they are harder to keep still during the piercing process, and might find the experience very uncomfortable, and will very likely play with the earrings during the healing process.
Teens are a bit more difficult, but if you keep an open dialogue with them about things like tattoos and piercings, you will be much less likely to be the parent who is surprised when their son or daughter comes home with a nasty infection because they got together with their friends and had a 'piercing party'.
It is generally best to wait for your child to ask you for a body piercing, and then to talk it over together, discussing the pros and the cons, before rushing out to get them pierced on your own. Infections, the possibility of chipped or broken teeth from lip piercings, and other body concerns, need to be fully explored prior to going to a body piercing studio, and if you're pre-teen hasn't opened up the topic already, sit them down and discuss it to avoid the possibility that they will get one without your knowledge anyway.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies
quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe,
comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple
times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist
in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a
tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For
more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
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Showing posts with label tattoos on minors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tattoos on minors. Show all posts
Monday, January 24, 2011
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.
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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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
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. RudolfNovember 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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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Rank the 'Tattoo Talk' With Drugs and Alcohol as a Parent
Underage tattooing has been a nightmare issue for both parents and children alike in recent years. The notoriety of young celebrities who bare their tattooed skin for their younger fans to admire opens the debate concerning role model behavior and presentation to our under 18 crowds.
In ancient circles, tattooing the body was a form of ritual and art-work. Tribal tattoos were given to children very young, with the entire tribe engaging in the structured and carefully planned family-type activity of initiation involved in giving and receiving the tattoo was a major part of this culture. This practice extends into the present day in tribal society, as well as, in some cases, extreme body piercing.
While we are not a tribal society, modern social pressures for teens in particular, together with a popular cult-ure of rising stars with little to no concern for the image they are portraying to their younger fans, has brought the issue of underage tattooing to the forefront of many family discussions. Like the tribal society that engages in ritual tattooing through the family unit, the discussion of underage tattooing needs to be initiated within the same family unit here in the United States.
Far from being a social problem, although one could argue for stricter rulings for tattoo artists who are caught tattooing children without parental consent, the issue of tattooing on minors needs to be addressed at the much more intimate level of in home discussions and guidelines for acceptable behavior, limits and consequences, by parents to their children.
School districts in some areas of the country are speculating about the importance of tattoo education for teens in particular regarding the laws and the dangers of underage and underground tattooing in unsterile facilities. While the topic is definitely a great health concern, and needs to be addressed in that manner, the onus still falls on the parents of teens to be certain of their child's activity by becoming more involved in the lives of their children.
When a 14 year old girl can obtain a tattoo from a stranger, the obvious concern needs to extend much further than the kinds of skin troubles she can contract from dirty needles; although that too is definitely an issue ~ perhaps concern for whether she would make it out of a stranger's home alive might also need to be talked about at the family dinner table.
Definitely lobby for educating children to the health dangers of underground and underage tattooing in schools and anywhere else children are prone to hang-out, but make the major portion of this issue your issue and protect your children by talking to them about making wise choices concerning their bodies and health now. Factor this one in as one of those topics you need to talk to your kids about, up there with drugs, alcohol and sex.
Inflicting Ink supports state laws and regulations regarding underage tattooing and sterile facilities by refusing to tattoo minors, and maintaining a sterile tattoo facility that exceeds every guideline in RI and the United States at this time.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
In ancient circles, tattooing the body was a form of ritual and art-work. Tribal tattoos were given to children very young, with the entire tribe engaging in the structured and carefully planned family-type activity of initiation involved in giving and receiving the tattoo was a major part of this culture. This practice extends into the present day in tribal society, as well as, in some cases, extreme body piercing.
While we are not a tribal society, modern social pressures for teens in particular, together with a popular cult-ure of rising stars with little to no concern for the image they are portraying to their younger fans, has brought the issue of underage tattooing to the forefront of many family discussions. Like the tribal society that engages in ritual tattooing through the family unit, the discussion of underage tattooing needs to be initiated within the same family unit here in the United States.
Far from being a social problem, although one could argue for stricter rulings for tattoo artists who are caught tattooing children without parental consent, the issue of tattooing on minors needs to be addressed at the much more intimate level of in home discussions and guidelines for acceptable behavior, limits and consequences, by parents to their children.
School districts in some areas of the country are speculating about the importance of tattoo education for teens in particular regarding the laws and the dangers of underage and underground tattooing in unsterile facilities. While the topic is definitely a great health concern, and needs to be addressed in that manner, the onus still falls on the parents of teens to be certain of their child's activity by becoming more involved in the lives of their children.
When a 14 year old girl can obtain a tattoo from a stranger, the obvious concern needs to extend much further than the kinds of skin troubles she can contract from dirty needles; although that too is definitely an issue ~ perhaps concern for whether she would make it out of a stranger's home alive might also need to be talked about at the family dinner table.
Definitely lobby for educating children to the health dangers of underground and underage tattooing in schools and anywhere else children are prone to hang-out, but make the major portion of this issue your issue and protect your children by talking to them about making wise choices concerning their bodies and health now. Factor this one in as one of those topics you need to talk to your kids about, up there with drugs, alcohol and sex.
Inflicting Ink supports state laws and regulations regarding underage tattooing and sterile facilities by refusing to tattoo minors, and maintaining a sterile tattoo facility that exceeds every guideline in RI and the United States at this time.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Underground Unlicensed Tattoo Artist Charged in NH
A local newspaper article that RI tattoo artist and Inflicting Ink owner Jeff Goyette found interesting concerning unlicensed, underground illegal tattooing is posted below.
NASHUA, NH – Police have brought additional charges against a woman accused of tattooing minors in an unlicensed, underground tattoo parlor in her apartment, detectives reported Wednesday.
Ronalda Brunner-Cummings, 45, of 1 Burns Hill Road, building 3, apt. 37, Hudson, has been jailed since her arrest late last month, unable to post $1,000 bail, Detective Lt. Jeff Bukunt said this morning.
Police charge she had been running an illicit tattoo parlor out of her former apartment at 25 Tolles St., using equipment she bought online, and offering low quality, cut-rate tattoos, at about $30 to 40 each.
Police searched her Hudson home and seized her tattooing equipment on April 29, and on Tuesday, Brunner-Cummings was arrested and arraigned in Nashua District Court on several more misdemeanor charges, Bukunt said.
In addition to endangering the welfare of two 15-year-olds, Brunner-Cummings is also charged with tattooing without a license, and tattooing minors, both also misdemeanors, Bukunt said.
Tattoo shops are highly regulated by state law (RSA 314-A), and it is illegal to operate one without a license in New Hampshire, and illegal to tattoo persons younger than 18.
“Even if parents said it was okay for their kids to get a tattoo, it’s illegal,” Bukunt said.
“Although the tattoos were of poor quality the bigger concern were the health risks,” Bukunt said. “Any time you’re dealing with needles, there’s obviously a risk (of infectious disease).”
Licensed tattoo shops are required to know and abide by safety regulations, including using disposable ink containers, tubes and needles. Brunner-Cummings has never been licensed, nor applied for a tattoo license, in New Hampshire, Bukunt said, and police have been unable to verify what sort of health protocols she followed, if any, he said.
Police have identified four teens tattooed by Brunner-Cummings, but two of the families declined to cooperate in prosecuting charges against her, Bukunt said.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
Illegal Tattoo Artist Faces New Charges
May 7th, 2009Police File New Charges Against Illicit Tattoo Artist
By Andrew WolfeNASHUA, NH – Police have brought additional charges against a woman accused of tattooing minors in an unlicensed, underground tattoo parlor in her apartment, detectives reported Wednesday.
Ronalda Brunner-Cummings, 45, of 1 Burns Hill Road, building 3, apt. 37, Hudson, has been jailed since her arrest late last month, unable to post $1,000 bail, Detective Lt. Jeff Bukunt said this morning.
Police charge she had been running an illicit tattoo parlor out of her former apartment at 25 Tolles St., using equipment she bought online, and offering low quality, cut-rate tattoos, at about $30 to 40 each.
Police searched her Hudson home and seized her tattooing equipment on April 29, and on Tuesday, Brunner-Cummings was arrested and arraigned in Nashua District Court on several more misdemeanor charges, Bukunt said.
In addition to endangering the welfare of two 15-year-olds, Brunner-Cummings is also charged with tattooing without a license, and tattooing minors, both also misdemeanors, Bukunt said.
Tattoo shops are highly regulated by state law (RSA 314-A), and it is illegal to operate one without a license in New Hampshire, and illegal to tattoo persons younger than 18.
“Even if parents said it was okay for their kids to get a tattoo, it’s illegal,” Bukunt said.
“Although the tattoos were of poor quality the bigger concern were the health risks,” Bukunt said. “Any time you’re dealing with needles, there’s obviously a risk (of infectious disease).”
Licensed tattoo shops are required to know and abide by safety regulations, including using disposable ink containers, tubes and needles. Brunner-Cummings has never been licensed, nor applied for a tattoo license, in New Hampshire, Bukunt said, and police have been unable to verify what sort of health protocols she followed, if any, he said.
Police have identified four teens tattooed by Brunner-Cummings, but two of the families declined to cooperate in prosecuting charges against her, Bukunt said.
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Inflicting Ink is a Rhode Island Tattoo Studio that embodies quality, consistency and pride, and offers a sterile, safe, comfortable, artistic environment to its customers. Nominated multiple times for the Best Tattoo Parlor in Rhode Island and Best Tattoo Artist in RI.
You may contact them for an appointment for a tattoo at (401) 683-5680 and of course walk-ins are always welcome.
For more information, please visit our home page at www.inflictinginktattoo.com.
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