VIDEO: Mom tattooed 11-year-old daughter

Police: Mom tattooed 11-year-old daughter

Odessa Clay charged with tattooing a person under the age of 18

"She asked me to do it," Clay said, referring to her daughter requesting the tattoo.

North Carolina law prohibits anyone tattooing someone who's not yet 18 years old.

Clay used her own tools and said she numbed her daughter's arm.

"I didn't fill it in," Clay said; she only tattooed the outline of a heart, and didn't darken the entire shape.

Clay said she did not know that tattooing a minor is illegal; she thought it was permissible with a parent's permission.