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Girl: Mom forced genitalia piercing

Thu Oct 25, 4:38 PM ET

A 39-year-old woman forcefully had her 13-year-old daughter's genitalia pierced to make it uncomfortable for her to have sex, the girl told jurors in her mother's child abuse trial.

The girl, now 16, told jurors Wednesday that her mother asked a tattoo artist friend in 2004 to shave the girl's head to make her unattractive to boys and later held her down for the piercing.

"She was trying to protect me, but it hurt me," the girl testified. "It not only hurt me physically, but it hurt me mentally. ... That's emotionally scarring. That's physical abuse."

Prosecutor Steve Maresca said the mother called on a friend to shave the girl's head and do the piercing after realizing that she had been having sex, including with the mother's boyfriend.

Defense attorney Donald Day told jurors that the mother had trouble with her rebellious daughter and that the girl agreed to the piercing to help rebuild her mother's trust.

"It wasn't torture or extreme violence," Day said. "It was, in the young girl's words, to try to save her. ... That decision was a last-ditch effort. In my client's mind, she had no other options."

Child welfare officials were called after the girl became infected from the piercing.

The mother, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter's identity, is charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

Tammy Meredith, 43, who did the piercing in her home, was sentenced to a year in jail for her role. An arrest warrant has been issued for the mother's boyfriend on allegations he had sex with the girl.
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Yikes! Talk about last ditch efforts to keep your kids from having sex.

Jen Jaree

That is ****ed up.

migamoo

Wait, what?

Californian

Wow That's very crazy! I can understand how the mother would want to save her daughter, but this is taking it too far.

abw92

That is awful. What kind of mother would do that. I get trying to stop your kids from having sex, but that is taking it way too far.

elisheva

That is really scary.

sunnykerr

That a 13-year-old is having sex is scary enough.

That her mother's reaction is to have her head shaved and her genitalia forcefully pierced is much, much scarier.

That the mother heard about her almost pre-pubescent daughter having sex with her (the mother's) boyfriend and somehow managed to make that the daughter's responsibility is probably the scariest thing in this whole scenario. Are you kidding me? In what world do we live in when a 13-year-old's sexual relations with her step-father something she ought to be held responsible for? I hope that man was prosecuted for statutory rape.

Samweed Knightly

That's soo weird. Who even thinks something like that up? Ew. Her step-father. What a weird and twisted story this is. But maybe we don't know the whole story. There might be more behind it.

sunnykerr, I know it sad. My little sister is a Freshman in High School and she knows a girl that's pregant. And supposedly there was this 7th grader last year. It's sad.

Mandy

Madness! That's taking it to the extreme. It sounds a lot like "Carrie" with the mother being completely insane and trying to "protect" her daughter.

Oy!

elisheva

Holy..wow, I didn't even SEE that sentence. That's so disturbing. This mom clearly has serious issues.

4N6 DNA

Wait, so was the mom trying to prevent the daughter from EVER having sex? Cause that would have probably done it

Groovy82

that is one sick strange mother. I don't get how she thought that would protect her. I kind of get how she wanted to protect her daughter from getting pragnant or getting an STD, but how abut just talking to her instead of scaring her for life.

MegDuf32

Don't genital piercings usually enhance sensation? What flawed logic!

But yeah, totally comparable to Carrie's mom, thats the first thing I thought of too. I wonder if she yelled at her about her dirty pillows.

spent cigarette

That is messed up. In more ways than one, since according to my friend the piercing of the clit itself hurts like hell, but makes sex a lot more pleasurable.

I found this article to be rather disgusting and disconcerting to be honest. There is something very, very wrong with that mother.

Reese07

wow, thats scary