No tit for tat in Oz

19 June 2015 - 02:08
By ©The Daily Telegraph

A judge in Australia has ordered a 20-year-old mother not to breast-feed her baby because she has a tattooed finger and foot. Matthew Myers, a federal circuit court judge, said the tattoos constituted a risk that the 11-month-old boy could be infected with HIV.He said the mother had tested negative for HIV but there was still a health threat because less than three months had passed since she had the tattoos.

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