Two men have been arrested for torture after distressing footage emerged of a teenager having 'I am a thief' tattooed on his forehead after allegedly stealing a disabled man's bike.
The 17-year-old look petrified in a video the men recorded as they scraped their permanent message onto the boy's skin during the incident in Brazil.
After tattoo artist Maycon Wesley Carvalho dos Reis and his friend, Ronildo Moreira de Araujo were finished they made the boy show his new inking to the camera, before asking him if he liked it.
The hand-scrawled tattoo read 'Eu sou ladrão e vacilão' in Portuguese - translated as 'I am a thief and a loser'.
The lad ran away after the attack and went missing for over a week, before he was eventually found by his family.
He has denied the theft and is scared to show anybody his face, and doesn't want to leave his home.
Mr Reis, 27, and Mr Moreira de Araujo, 29, were arrested and face charges of torture.
The teenager gave a statement to police denied having committed any theft and was taken to the medical post to be medicated and returned to his grandmother's house.
He is being treated at a psychological care centre and is receiving treatment for his wounds.
G1, a Brazilian news website, spoke to the boy's uncle.
He said: "He's very well-liked in the neighborhood and many people started looking for him, they came to tell us where he was and his friends went to pick him up, and now he's at his grandmother's house, resting."
One of the lad's childhood friends has started a crowd sourcing page to raise funds for the tattoo to be removed.
But he says he has received death threats from the "tattoo community". - Mirror
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