After being accused of tying their kids up and making them get tattoos, a Texas mother and stepfather both pleaded guilty.
Two years after being arrested for tattooing and detaining Megan Farr’s children, who were then five and nine years old, at their house in Zavalla, a city about 130 miles northeast of Houston, Megan Farr, 29, and Gunnar Farr, 25, both entered guilty pleas in separate court appearances.
An arrest affidavit states that the children’s biological father informed Child Protective Services about the tattoos after noticing them.
According to the arrest document, Megan and Gunnar Farr then reportedly tried to get rid of the kids’ tattoos by scratching their skin raw and cleaning the areas with lemon juice.
The children informed others that their mother and stepfather had gagged them, blindfolded them, and tied them up with rope while their parents tattooed them, according to KTRE‘s April 2023 coverage of the case.
James Denby, the interim chief of the Zavalla Police Department at the time, informed that the couple’s friends were there in the residence when the incident happened.
The arrest document states that Megan Farr “laughed about it and drove away” after telling her ex-husband, who was also the father of her children, that she had tattooed the children.
Additionally, Gunnar Farr told the father of the children that a staple was used to create the tattoos.
After the Farrs tried to remove the tattoos, Denby told the kids about the injuries, saying, “It looked like the flesh was taken off the body at the tattoo’s location.” And this occurred around the time that CPS got involved.
After being accused with unlawful restraint and bodily injury to a kid, the Farrs were both taken into custody on April 24, 2023, and released on bond.
On March 19, Gunnar Farr entered a guilty plea and was given a sentence of two years in prison for the restraint charge and five years in prison for each of the four charges of bodily injury, to be served concurrently.
Megan Farr will be punished later after entering a guilty plea to child injury on Thursday.
Source: lawandcrime
