• Several

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    have asked the Fake Off column to verify the authenticity of a video showing a baby getting a tattoo.

  • The images, taken on the occasion of the child's sixth month, are only a staging, assures his mother, who told Reuters that these tattoos were ephemeral.

Could a child as young as six months really be tattooed from head to toe?

Several readers of 

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 have asked the Fake Off column to verify the authenticity of a viral video showing a baby in the middle of a tattoo session, gold chain around his neck and bracelet on the wrist.

Relayed on Instagram by the account “@vamsovideo” (290,000 subscribers), these images, probably filmed in the United States, aroused indignation among many Internet users, who described the sequence as “disgusting”, even as a “scene”. of torture ”.

Because under the tattoo artist's needle, the toddler is in the middle of tears.

We reassure you, as shocking as these images may seem

,

it is a hoax: the tattoos of this baby, worthy of an American rapper, are only temporary.

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The original video was posted by Shemeka Morris, mother of six-month-old Treylin, on Facebook and Instagram on June 19 and 20.

Contacted by the Reuters news agency, she explained that the designs visible on her son's body were only temporary, like those decals available for purchase on Amazon.

"I thought I was just a mother showing creativity and thinking outside the box," she told Reuters, surprised at the outrage over her video, also posted on YouTube .

Shemeka Morris, residing in Belle Glade, Florida, explained that she immortalized each new month of her son's life by taking a themed photo. Passionate about tattoos, it is therefore around this theme that she decided to celebrate the sixth month of her son. While some Internet users quickly understood that it was a humorous video and snapshots, others "threatened to call the police and said that what [she had done] was abusive and negligent. », She reports.

This is not the first time that Americans have created controversy over the issue of tattooing their children.

In 2016, a mother in New York State was prosecuted for having had a tattoo - this time not a hoax - the inscription "Ride or Die" and a lightning bolt on the hands of her sons of twelve and twelve. thirteen years.

In 2018, a woman from Ohio was placed in police custody for filming her 10-year-old son getting a tattoo without respecting hygiene guidelines.

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