While working in ER this young woman came in and needed to be put into a gown. It was summer and she was wearing a long sleeved turtleneck. I thought that was odd until she took it off and she had small homemade tatoos over her arms and torso. They went up her neck and down both arms to her wrists. She then told me she had them down both legs to her ankles. She said her mother had married an aspiring tatoo artist when she was nine years old, and he needed to practice. She was a blank canvas, and her mother allowed him to tatoo this child. He wasn't allowed to touch her face, hands, or feet, but the rest of her was used. She was covered in these ugly blue tatoos. She hated them and that is why she always wore long sleeved shirts. I felt so sorry for her. She said she was a person who would never have gotten any tatoos. If people saw them, she was always prejudged.