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<\/div>\nBoth parents were arrested and charged with injury to a child and unlawful restraint.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A mother and a stepfather in US’ Texas\u00a0have been arrested after they allegedly tattooed their children by force, then tried to remove the tattoos once authorities got involved, New York Post <\/a>reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n As per an arrest affidavit\u00a0obtained by KTRE<\/a>,\u00a0Megan Mae Farr, 27, and Gunner Farr, 23, tied down their 9-year-old and 5-year-old children and forcibly gave them tattoos.\u00a0While one received a tattoo on the foot,\u00a0the other child received one on the shoulder, according to the report. The investigation\u00a0alleges that the children were tied down with a rope, their mouths covered with tape and a rag covered their eyes.<\/p>\n However, when the biological father and stepmother saw the tattoos on the children, they reported the matter to\u00a0Child Protective Services (CPS).<\/p>\n When the couple came to know that\u00a0CPS was looking into the matter, they tried to evade arrest by forcibly removing the tattoos. They tried to cover the tattoos by “cutting, scraping, and scrubbing” the areas, and removing them by rubbing the tattoos with lemon juice.<\/p>\n ”There were visible injuries on the child at the specific location of the tattoo and it appeared that the flesh was removed from the body at the tattoo location and this happened about the time that CPS got involved in the allegations of the child abuse,” interim Zavalla Police Chief Lt. James Denby told KTRE.<\/a><\/p>\n On Monday,\u00a0both parents were arrested and charged with injury to a child and unlawful restraint.<\/p>\n While Megan Mae Farr was charged with two counts of injury to a child and unlawful restraint,\u00a0Gunner Farr was\u00a0charged with one count of unlawful restraint and one count of injury to a child.<\/p>\n