Thursday, January 01, 2009

2 face charges for penis tattoo on fellow inmate

Lempira Norman had a lousy Christmas. Not only was he housed at the Volusia County Branch Jail on Dec. 25, he also, by force, got a penis tattooed on his back by two fellow inmates.

Norman told sheriff's deputies that Justine Harris and Ryan Collina had been harassing him all day because they wanted him to join a club they were forming. An annoyed Norman refused and went back to his room.

A few minutes later though, Harris and Collina showed up with a blanket and ordered Norman to get on the floor. They threw the blanket on his head and began pummelling him.

The men threatened Norman, saying he would get a worse beating unless he allowed them to apply a tattoo. Harris told Norman the tattoo would be of a capital and lowercase B.

But instead, as Collina held Norman down, Harris - equipped with a makeshift tattoo kit - applied a drawing of a penis on the back of the victim's right shoulder.

When Norman reported the ordeal, the tattoo kit was confiscated, and Harris and Collina were charged with aggravated battery to a detainee, by a detainee.

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