An Ohio mom is facing child endangerment charges after police said she allowed a 16-year-old to give her 10-year-old son a tattoo.

Even worse: the underage ink artist was unlicensed and previously accused of giving someone a tattoo that led to an MRSA infection, according to local station WSYX.

Nikki Dickinson, 34, of Bellefontaine, was charged on Friday with first-degree misdemeanor child endangering and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Kyle Richardson, the teen tattoo artist, was charged with two delinquency counts of tattooing prohibitions. Both charges are considered fourth-degree misdemeanors if committed by an adult, according to the Bellefontaine Examiner.

A complaint by the Logan County Prosecutor’s Office said Richardson’s work on Dickinson’s child did not “meet the safety and sanitations standards” set by state law, nor did it meet “standards for appropriate disinfection and sterilization of invasive equipment or parts of equipment.”

The 10-year-old’s tattoo came to light on Sept. 24 after Dickinson shared a cell phone video of the tattoo in progress on Facebook.

Lt. Rick Herring of the Bellefontaine Police Department told WSYX that the station started getting calls immediately.

“The phones have not stopped ringing,” Herring said. “We’ve gotten calls from several different states from people that are concerned for the welfare of this child.”

Heavy noted that many of Dickinson’s own family members slammed the video. A person claiming to be her cousin called her a “piece of s**t” and said, “You gonna to that to my baby cousin i f**kin’ hate you nikki.” Meanwhile, her grandmother said Dickinson “needs to go to jail for doing this to my grandson.”

Investigators visited the family on Monday and the boy seemed to be fine, Herring said.

“The child had actually said he asked for the tattoo,” he said.

According to court documents obtained by The Smoking Gun, Dickinson told police she got “tired” of her son always asking for a tattoo and just decided to give in to him.

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(Photo: Bellefontaine Police Department)

While Dickinson does face charges, Yahoo! noted that tattooing a minor isn’t necessarily illegal in Ohio if parental permission is granted.

However, the parent, guardian, or custodian of the minor must be there when the procedure is performed, and the procedure must meet safety and sanitation standards.

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"Synyster Ink" tattooing a client. "How many of your 'clients' commit suicide after you tattooed them?"

"He should have used all that extra ink to tattoo bigger nipples on the guy."

"What I like about this is that only the wings are fresh. The wonky stars, thorns and DNA look healed so this person actually looked at the quality of work and came back for a second session."

"I hate all my tattoos when I see your work :("

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"I wasn't gonna say anything but now i feel i've got to. Every single one of these tattoos looks like they've been done by a 5 year old with their wrong hand after drinking a bottle of whiskey. What would anyone be tattooed by this person?" "I fart better tattoos than this..."

"This looks like it was done by an eight year old."

"grim indeed" "I bet you are fully booked up till summer"

"it looks like a cyclops looking at....cake and an eye and sword hilts?"

"crap" "majik markers" "oh the horror" "omg this is awful was this done with crayons? And a blind fold"

"Groms? Froms?" "This is horrific!!! Please don't show anymore!!!! I hope he's not a friend of yours?!" "what did grams do to deserve this?"

"WTF?? Dude Please. Just give it up." "nice oreo" "just burn your tat license"

"it looks like a squashed vagina!!!"

"My cat could do better using its tail"

"I cant hang my head in shame enough to get this image out of it. This is a complete joke right? Was this hatch shaded with a colored pencil? and why doe the parrot have stitches in his head? This is just a damn shame."

"Yeah. That looks about all it's worth."

"this must be a joke :|" "her pinky toe is desperately trying to look away."

"I hope one of the saints players kick his ass for this horrible crap" "come on, thats a sharpie."

"she looks surprised. maybe she can't believe how much you suck." "Britney Spears on a meth binge"

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"love the groucho mustache" "Was this done in the dark?" "professional insight on covering up a tattoo: throw a bunch of black ink over it and call it a cloud"

"The butterfly that shits the rainbow" "um look at that toenail"

"my 7 year old sister draws better butterflies than this.." "it looks like a bunch of toes on the wings? :O"

"omg whats happening here. What has occured!?" "Looks like a tree made of shit"

"Why would someone post this shit...and actually be PROUD!?!? Of it??" "scribble jesus" "This borders on blasphemy."

"Elsie is turning in her grave" "Don't ya hate it when you start tattooing and then realise you have caps lock on..."

"please create an album of the people's reaction when they see their tattoo for the 1st time :) it must be priceless like your work"

"You should have gotten a mastectomy, it would have looked better than this." "BAHAHAHA! I laughed so friggin' hard when I saw this I just about died. I feel bad for your customer though Chris. People have to live with this stuff for the rest of their lives. Please for their sake stop tattooing."

"who in their right mind would use an old tube sock for a book marker in the Bible????"

"I always wanted to create a crayola effect like this" "is it a pizza?"

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