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London, Apr 7 (ANI): A man in the US has been sentenced to one-year probation and ordered to pay a 300-dollar fine after he tattooed the letters ‘DB’, which are short for “Daddy’s Boy”, on his 3-year-old son’s shoulder.

Eugene ‘Stonner’ Ashley, 26, from Georgia, has been banned from having contact with his son Matthew after he pleaded guilty to giving the tattoo.

He had told police, who arrested and charged him for tattooing someone under the age of 18, that he was drunk and did not remember tattooing the letters on the toddler’s body.

Officers from the Department of Family and Children Services noticed the tattoo when they visited the house in May 2009 where Ashley lived with his wife Amy and their four children.

According to court documents the boy received the tattoo some time between January and May 2009.

Amy Ashley told how she discovered that her son had been given a tattoo.

“My son runs up to me and says ‘Mummy, I’ve got a tattoo’, and I said ‘You do’, and I said ‘Does it wash off?’, and he said ‘No it’s real’,” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

“There’s no excuse for what he did. I mean common sense, you just don’t tattoo a three-year-old. I just wish he hadn’t done it,” she stated.

The child was taken into custody by the DFCS and is now cared for by the boy’s uncle, George Hawkins.

Hawins claims that Amy Ashley knew about the tattoo for months before her husband was arrested and tried to cover it up with fake tattoos, but she has denied the claims. (ANI)