Megan Farr (left) and Gunnar Farr (Angelina County Jail).
A Texas mother and stepfather both entered guilty pleas after being accused of tying their children down and forcing them to get tattooed.
Megan Farr, aged 29, and Gunnar Farr, aged 25, have both admitted their guilt in court, two years after they were arrested for restraining Megan Farr’s two children, who were aged 5 and 9 at the time. The couple was charged with tattooing the children at their residence in Zavalla, a city located about 130 miles northeast of Houston. An arrest affidavit obtained by KTRE, a local ABC affiliate, stated that the biological father of the children noticed the tattoos and alerted Child Protective Services to the situation.
After the incident, Megan Farr and Gunnar Farr allegedly tried to remove the tattoos from the children’s skin by scraping it off and using lemon juice to scrub the areas, as mentioned in the arrest affidavit.
In a report by KTRE in April 2023, it was revealed that the children disclosed to others that they were tied up with rope, blindfolded, and gagged by their mother and stepfather during the tattooing process. The then-Interim Chief of the Zavalla Police Department, James Denby, informed KTRE that friends of the couple were present in the house when the disturbing incident took place.
According to the arrest affidavit, Megan Farr told her former husband and father of her children that she had tattooed the kids, after which she “laughed about it and drove away.” Gunnar Farr also spoke with the kids’ father and told them the tattoos were made with a staple.
Denby described the injuries to the children after the Farrs attempted to remove the tattoos, telling KTRE, “It appeared that the flesh was removed from the body at the tattoo’s location. And this happened about the time CPS became involved.”
The Farrs were both arrested on April 24, 2023 and posted bond after being charged with unlawful restraint and bodily injury to a child.
Gunnar Farr pleaded guilty on March 19 and was sentenced to two years for the restraint charge and five years for each of the four bodily injury charges, to be served concurrently.
Megan Farr pleaded guilty Thursday to injuring a child and will be sentenced at a later date.
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