WTF!? Story of the Day: Four Charged in Tattooing 14-Year-Old Against His Will

The 14-year-old special needs student was told he wouldn't be picked on at his New Hampshire high school if he submitted to having obscene words tattooed on his backside

Donald Wyman, 20, Ryan Fisk, 19, Travis Johnston, 18, and Blake VanNest, 18

NEW YORK (CBS) Four ruthless young men promised a 14-year-old boy they would stop picking on him if he let them tattoo his buttocks with an image of a penis and the words "poop d**k" -- and then they proceeded to do exactly that, say police.


According to The Smoking Gun, a New Hampshire boy was enticed to a Concord home on May 10, where three Concord High School students and one former student warned the teen that he'd be getting the tattoo "whether he liked it or not," said investigators.
Investigators said the boy asked what would happen if he tried to flee and the bullies told him they'd catch him and beat him up, reported the website.


The victim, a ninth grader, has been "frequenly targeted for ridicule by upper classmen," investigators said, according to The Smoking Gun. They said the victim suffers from "learning disabilities and self-esteem issues."


You put yourself in this kid's position, your heart has to go out to him," said Sgt. John Thomas, who said the boy has been picked on so much that he would do anything to stop it. "It's gotten so bad that you have to subject your body to being scarred for life, just to be accepted by your peers."

Blake VanNest, 18, is charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a minor, tattooing without a license, indecent exposure and criminal threatening. Donald Wyman, 20, is charged with criminal liability for the conduct of another and conspiracy to endanger the welfare of a minor.

A fifth attacker, who is 15, is also expected to be charged.


Wyman drew the tattoo on the boy, and Fisk and VanNest did the tattooing, prosecutors said.

The next day, the boy said students in the school were passing around pictures of the tattoo. A teacher overheard a conversation about it called police.


The family of the boy said they planned to speak out about the growing problem of school bullying in the coming the days.

"This is a very emotional time for our family, as we are still trying to absorb what was done to our child," the family said through a lawyer.

What kind of person gets their kicks from teasing, mistreating, bullying a special needs person? I just don't understand why a person would do that. It makes me sick to know that there are people out there that do this just about everyday.