Overview
- Police arrested Brook McDaniel on Monday after a child-abuse complaint at a Monticello home and booked her on a $5,000 cash bond for fourth-degree assault.
- Troopers said the 22-month-old had a small black dot tattoo on his right forearm with redness around the area.
- McDaniel told officers she was tattooing her leg when the toddler moved his arm into the tattoo gun.
- Several witnesses told police she called the mark a "party dot" and said the child wanted a tattoo.
- Kentucky law sets 16 as the minimum age for tattoos with written parental consent, and troopers reported deplorable living conditions that triggered a child-welfare review that is still underway.