Getting Under Their Skin Summary

According to "Getting Under Their Skin" by Scott Kraft, Enrique Gonzalez and his friend Travis Gorman were tattooing Gonzalez 7 year old son. The insignia was a gang related tattoo of a dog paw print of a well-known gang called bulldogs from Fresno. The mother of the boy later then saw the tattoo and right away called the authorities and that lead up to the two men's arrests and were charged with aggravated mayhem which meant getting a life sentence. The jury later found the men not guilty of the charge, and ended with a hung jury on the rest of the minor charges. The men accepted a plea deal to the charge of corporal injury to the child. Gonzalez got six years and Gorman got five. In conclusion, both of the men got a fair sentence for their actions.
Aggravated mayhem wasn’t going to be a fair charge for tattooing a minor. The punishment would have been an excessive for the crime the men committed. There are people who have commit much bigger crimes, including murders, rape, and kidnapping. People that commit these types of crimes only end up getting a few years in prison. It would not have been fair to send someone to prison for life for tattooing a minor. …show more content…
So not only did the boy have to endure pain once by getting the tattoo, but he would later on endure even more pain when he gets his tattoo removed because according to Kraft “the little boy’s tattoo was being removed by a dermatologist”. Then adding on to his pain he had to testify against his dad, saying it was all my dad’s idea and seeing his dad being arrested and almost sent to prison for life for a mistake he did. Everybody thought that the child was being held down against his will. Quillen the boy’s grandma later testified, saying afterward, the boy pestered his father for a tattoo and of course he got his way, like he always