In a strange case out of England, a man is behind bars for tattooing children with what he said were temporary tattoos, but they turned out to be real. According to the BBC, the judge in the case called it a “staggeringly stupid thing to do.”
In February 2026, a court sentenced Patrick Coe, 31, of Newcastle upon Tyne, to three years in prison and a 10-year restraining order after Coe admitted he used a home tattoo kit to permanently tattoo three children, telling them and their caregivers the designs would fade with soap and water.
