An Australian man was sent to prison for his role in encouraging a tattoo artist to draw a large penis on the back of his friend in 2010, the Queensland Times reported Monday.
Christopher William Lord, 23, was sentenced to a year in prison after he pleaded guilty to assault for urging his tattooist friend to draw a penis on the back of the victim, who is on disability. Lord's friend, 24-year-old Matthew Francis Brady, was convicted in 2011 for drawing the nearly 16-inch penis, along with testicles and a lewd phrase underneath.
Judge Greg Koppenol of the Ipswich District Court called the tattoo "appalling," the Queensland Times reported.
"It was a miserable offence," Koppenol told Lord. "You acted miserably towards a vulnerable young man with a significant disability."
The victim went to Brady's house in Ebbw Vale on Oct. 18, 2010 at around 10:30 a.m. Brady reportedly accused the victim of raping a girl, which he said was not true, the Queensland Times reported. Lord, who was already at the house, Brady and the third man began drinking rum.
Lord and his friend tried to get the victim to let Brady draw a tattoo on his back. The third man gave in, thinking he was going to get a tattoo of a tiger, dragon and yin and yang symbol.
Lord persisted in telling the man the tattoo was a good idea, adding that he knew a girl that would have sex with him if he got it, the Queensland Times reported.
Brady ended up drawing the tattoo in one of his bedrooms. The man said he was in pain and wanted Brady to stop, but Lord told the victim the tattoo looked "mad." When Brady was done Lord told the victim to cover his back, the Queensland Times reported.
The victim then left Brady's house after he got into another altercation about the alleged rape. It wasn't until the victim's friends told him what was on his back that he found out what was done to him.
The man's tattoo is now covered thanks to an Ipswich tattoo artist who helped the victim free of charge, the Queensland Times reported.
