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This 19-Year-Old Dad Had Trouble Finding A Job. One Look At His Picture Shows Why.

Hank Berrien

In a variation on the old adage, the reason one teenage father from New Zealand was complaining about employers refusing to hire him was as plain as the tattoo on his face.

Mark Cropp, 19, who recently completed his 2015 two-year sentence in jail for armed robbery after he brandished a knife to rob a tourist who backed out of a fake marijuana sale, got a tattoo in jail that covered the lower half of his face. It read “DEVAST8.”

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