My sister-in-law used to do foster parenting. She became particularly attached to a little boy that she had cared for since he was a baby. The mother was a drug addicted, white, lesbian prostitute who already had four other children by different fathers. The mother refused to give the boy up for adoption and when my sister-in-law moved out of state, the state gave the boy back to the mother and she also moved to another state.
My sister-in-law kept in touch with the boy and when he turned 18, he came to live with her in Vt. The kid was covered, head to toe with tattoos. The mother had become a tattoo artist and using a homemade tattoo device, practiced on the child to learn how to do it.
The military wouldn’t even take him because of all the visible tattoos.
What a heart breaking story. Tattos can be erased, now, but it is expensive. The dermablend is time consuming, but it does work. I first heard about it on one of those news magazine shows way back in the late 80s. I used to buy it at Harris’ store, but they went out of business and I forgot about it until today.