Tattoo Torture: Zavalla Couple Abused Children, Man Sentenced

Just when you think you have heard it all, there comes a case that is just unbelievable. In late April of 2023, a Zavalla couple was arrested for allegedly forcibly tattooing their two young children.

The Farr children showed up at school with two tattoos. The girl with a black heart on her foot, and the boy with a small circle on his shoulder. 

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The children claimed that they had been asleep when the tattoo was put on their bodies. A CPS investigation was initiated by the school after this was brought to their attention.

Zavalla Man Sentenced To Five Years For Tattooing His Step Children

Once the couple realized they were under investigation and that tattooing, even your own children, was illegal, things got even worse. They restrained the children and tried to forcibly remove the tattoos.

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According to the Lufkin Daily News, the children said they used a hard black rag, later found out to be a Brillo pad.

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Gunnar Farr was sentenced by Judge Todd Kassaw on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, to 2 years in state jail for unlawful restraint and 5 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for 2 counts of bodily injury of a child.

The counts will run concurrently, and he is now in the Angelina County Jail, waiting for a transfer to TDCJ.

Zavalla Woman Also Charged In Tattooing Her Children

Sentencing for Gunnar Farr is over, but his wife, the biological mother of the two children, is also charged with two counts of third-degree injury to a child and unlawful restraint. Hopefully, justice will be served, and these children's lives can return to normal. They are now with their biological father.