He also said the man had no more than two years’ experience as a body-pierce artist.īurt estimates the graphic photos had been posted to the website for approximately two months before the health board discovered them.Īnd other than the former employee’s wife, Burt said he didn’t know who or how many people had undergone any of the risky procedures.īurt said his former worker never paid him a commission for the surreptitious cutting sessions. He said all of his employees have their own professional “portfolios” that they can upload to his website.īurt claims the former employee never performed the procedures on the business premises but instead did it somewhere else, possibly at his own house. He also said he had not been aware Pleasure in Pain’s website was being used as a platform to advertise those practices. Some of those scalpel-oriented services, while prohibited in Massachusetts, are legal in other states such as New Hampshire, Vickstrom added.īurt said the employee responsible for the illegal cutting procedures had been fired. “Jeff said he’ll be (vigilant),” Vickstrom said. Vickstrom ordered the body-art shop’s closure on May 2 after accumulating evidence that an employee was using the business’s website to advertise surgical procedures, including fingertip magnetic implants, genital beading and ribbing and tongue splitting. Pleasure in Pain, 184 Broadway, is back in business after a hearing this week between its owners and Taunton Board of Health officials.īOH Assistant Executive Director Adam Vickstrom said he was satisfied with co-owner Jeff Burt’s assurances that he would stick strictly to tattoos, forgo legal piercing for the time being and never again allow the business to be affiliated with questionable or illegal practices. A local tattoo parlor has reopened after health officials shut it down more than a month ago amid allegations of illegal surgical procedures.
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