An Arizona tattoo artist is under fire for inking a 9-year-old girl with an American flag — but he insists he actually helped her out and doesn’t support kids getting tats.The co-owner of Black Onyx Empire Tattoo — who goes by Sosa — shared an Instagram post saying the girl rolled into his Yuma shop with her sister and parents last May and asked for a tattoo of President-elect Donald Trump on her neck.In Arizona, kids are allowed to get inked so long as consenting parents are present.Sosa said he tried to “scare” the girl and family away from the very permanent decision by charging them $500 for what would have otherwise been an $80 tat.They were undeterred, however, and Sosa talked them out of the Trump neck tat for an American flag on her arm.In early January, the girl came back to get the red-retouched on her flag and Sosa obliged.“Anyways what do you guys think?” he wrote in the Instagram post.Many were more than willing to share what they thought.“Please no.
As an artist, be the bigger person and don’t do this to a 9 year old.Then call child services,” one commenter responded on a YouTube video about the story.“I’m heavily tattooed and I believe anyone involved in this should be prosecuted and put in jail,” said another.“You shoulda talked yourself out of even entertaining the thought.
You can’t control the parents but you can control your own actions and should have refused service,” added another, while others called Sosa “disgusting” and said he should be “ashamed” of himself.But Sosa, who says he’s been “getting threats” and “hate comments” since he shared the story, insists he was acting in the girl’s best interest.“She was going to get it done regardless.She said it didn’t matter if I did it or someone else did it, she was going to get it done,” he told The Post Tuesday.“And I thought, ‘You know what, in a sterile, clean environment…'” he said, adding that he was afraid another artist ...