Man goes to jail for tattooing 3 year-old son

I don’t have a tattoo, don’t believe in anything strongly enough to get it permanently etched into my skin (and the one thing I do believe in enough wouldn’t be right; too many social stigmas attached to a Hannah Montana tattoo on a grown man). But fortunately, some fathers are making that decision for their child, like this classy gentleman in Georgia.

A Floyd County man has been charged with child cruelty after authorities say he tattooed his 3-year-old son.

Floyd County Police Sgt. Teri Davis said Eugene Ashley, 24, tattooed the back of his son’s right shoulder with “DB,” which stands for “Daddy’s Boy,” sometime this spring. The man told police he was intoxicated at the time, Davis said.

The child’s mother, Amy Ashley, was not present during the incident.

The tattoo was discovered after an unidentified person complained to the Department of Family and Children Services about the conditions at the Ashley home. The Ashleys have three or four children, Davis said.

“You keep thinking you’ve seen it all, and then voila,” Davis said.

The children remain with their mother; Eugene Ashley was arrested May 21 and faces charges of child cruelty and tattooing a person younger than 18 years old, the latter being a misdemeanor, Davis said.

Tattoos are supposed to, theoretically, make you look cool and edgy. But having one that stands for Daddy’s Boy probably isn’t going to win you any cool points. In fact, there really isn’t anything else that DB stands for that you could pretend is cool. Douche Bag? Dick Butt? Dave’s Balls? Why would you want to advertise Dave’s Balls in such a pronounced way? They must truly be stellar.

I haven’t fathered a child that I’m willing to publicly acknowledge so maybe I can’t relate to being a father, but tattooing your child in your apartment while drunk just doesn’t seem like something a child would look back on fondly. It’s not exactly a Wonder Years moment. And you’re also setting the bar pretty high for being a negligent father right away. How can you prove your awfulness more than that? Beating your son or throwing whiskey at him doesn’t quite pack the same punch.

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