Father held down little boy for stomach gang tattoo

Fresno, California police are searching for the father of a 7-year-old boy who reportedly was forced to get a gang tattoo.

Police are looking for 26-year-old Enrique Gonzales, a member of the “Bulldog” street gang.



Investigators say Gonzales held down his son while a tattoo artist, also a Bulldog gang member, tattooed a dog paw on the boy’s stomach.

The tattoo artist, 20-year-old Travis Gorman, has been arrested and is facing several felony charges. The boy’s father is wanted on several charges and is believed to be hiding in Fresno.



Fresno Police spokesperson Jeff Cardinale says that even the police department’s gang task force, which has made more than 9,000 gang-related arrests, was shocked by this incident.

A gang expert says the incident is part of a gang’s desire to show that it owns the family of its members, and is also trying to recruit new members at a much younger age.