Drunk' mum 'allowed sex offender to tattoo her three children' including girl of NINE

Ashley Nikole Weir faces three years in prison

A mother is facing three years in jail after allegedly allowing a convicted sex offender to TATTOO her three children - including a girl of NINE.
Ashley Nikole Weir was allegedly so drunk she allowed the three youngsters, all under the age of 14, to be permanently inked.
Police in Travis County, Texas, arrested the 31-year-old in Lago Vista and charged her with three counts of tattoos prohibited for certain persons, a Class A misdemeanor.
If convicted, she could spend up to three years in prison .
The father of the three children told police that his 13-year-old son called and asked him to pick them up from Weir's house, according to an arrest affidavit.
Local news site mySA said the boy told his father that "they had a surprise for him and that he might not like it," according to the affidavit.



The dad went to the house and found Weir "passed out drunk" in bed.
He told investigators the children were unsupervised - and all three had fresh tattoos on their ankles.
His 13-year-old son had a tattoo of a cross on his right ankle, his 10-year-old daughter had a cross and infinity symbol on her left ankle and his nine-year-old daughter had a heart-and-arrow design on her right ankle, according to police.
The boy told police that Weir wanted the children to get tattoos when they arrived at their mother's house, the affidavit states.

Weir is being held at Travis County jail

Two men were there at the time: Weir's boyfriend and his brother — who is a sex offender, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety's sex offender registry.
The website said the kids told police Weir told them to get the tattoos "but not to cry or whine about it when it hurts," according to the affidavit.
The brother of Weir's boyfriend tattooed the three children, the youngsters told police.
Their father asked officers to conduct a welfare check on Weir, according to the affidavit.
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Police said Weir smelled of alcohol and that she "wobbled, swayed and was unsure on her feet while walking."
Weir told police that she allowed the children to get tattoos but wouldn't say who actually performed the act of tattooing the children.
The mother confirmed that she, her boyfriend and her boyfriend's brother were the only adults in the home at the time.
Weir also knew the design of each tattoo, according to the affidavit.
Weir is currently being held in Travis County Jail on a $15,000 bond.