Mother Arrested for TATTOOING Son and Trading Him for Drugs

A manhunt for 24 year old Shaunetta Wright came to a peaceful end early Monday morning after she was apprehended in Alabama for child abuse, neglect and several other charges. Authorities say that Wright is accused of allowing her boyfriend to etch a full chest tattoo across her two-year-old son’s upper torso and then trading the boy for crack cocaine.

St. Paul Police patrol officer Jamie Sipes holds up a strip of crime scene tape to let a squad car pass outside the Super 8 motel on Old Hudson Road in St. Paul, where St. Paul police shot and killed a man on Monday. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall)

According to reports, Wright approach her drug dealer with her son Monday morning around 2:15 AM. The boy was upset, crying and in a lot of pain as she showed off his new ink. Her drug dealer, 34-year-old Tito Greene says she approached him for crack cocaine, but said she had no money. She offered him the injured child for collateral until her welfare check came in on the first of the month. Greene, who is in custody and currently being questioned on the ordeal, said he agreed to take the boy and gave Wright her drugs.