Help Luke Murphy cover-up his abuse

Hey guys, my name is kyle and I’m a tattoo artist, but this isn’t about me. On a normal Saturday morning, prepping for work I heard a knock on the door, and I proceeded to greet a lady and her son with his head down anxiously awaiting me to open up. I won’t lie, I thought "here we go". I wasn’t really ready for what I was about to be told.

The young chap standing before me that couldn’t look me in the eyes was Luke Murphy, Luke lives with Aspergers Syndrome and ADD - this means he’s on the Spectrum for Autism. If you’re unaware what that means for him I’ll break it down. Luke struggles with social and emotional interactions and has restricted behavioural patterns.

I’ll get to the point. Luke was "befriended" by 2 females, because of his troubles with interaction they manipulated him to leave his home and join them, his Mum didn’t have a clue of his whereabouts. Luke ended up in a flat in Yarmouth among unfamiliar faces. For days he was fed painkillers and anti-depressants to the point he couldn’t function properly. Luke’s 2 new friends among others decided to take advantage of this and tattooed him all over his body. They tattooed their own names, they tattooed satanic symbolism and they even tattooed a puzzle piece - the awareness symbol for Autism. Twisted right?

Luke started coming around and when reality hit him, he informed his mum where he was. She got into the flat and dragged him away. They took his money along with his dignity. Police are aware and I’m told a case is in progress however, with Luke’s interaction struggles it’s difficult to keep him calm to discuss it and get information - it often leads to him being non-verbal and aggressive.

This really affected me, I can’t quite fathom how it’s affected him or his mum.

Luke has expressed to me he loves skull and panther tattoos, I could really see his eyes light up and hunched shoulders disappear at the thought of having awesome tattoos, instead of the reminders stained on his body of what he went through. He has tried laser removal but he’d like to avoid it. My aim is to raise as much money as possible and distribute it as payment to Tattoo artists and/or laser technicians of his choice to help Luke remove his abuse, and anything else we can donate to a relevant charity for Autism and abuse. Any research help on that would be appreciated.

This has been a real f***ing ordeal for Luke and his mum and if I can use the power of the internet to try numb that just a little bit, why not? Anything is appreciated and will go a long way.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and if you’re here then you’re probably a wonderful person - no pressure to donate but a share would go a long way too.

Cheers,

Kyle