New Jersey mom accused of taking daughter, 5, in tanning salon booth; child suffered burns

[shawn703]

NUTLEY, N.J. — A New Jersey mom is accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a stand-up tanning booth, and authorities say the girl suffered burns.

Patricia Krentcil is charged with child endangerment.

Nutley Police Det. Anthony Montanari told The Record newspaper police were called to an elementary school on April 24 because the kindergartener was experiencing pain as a result of a “pretty severe sunburn.”

The 44-year-old mother, who is very tan, has told various TV stations her daughter was in the room at the tanning salon, but not the booth.


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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Toddlers and Tiaras

Very common practice for the little pageant girls.

[shawn703]

2. "The 44-year-old mother, who is very tan"

That's putting it mildly.

[deutsey]

4. Yow

[justabob]

10. tanned like leather

she looks absolutely awful. She clearly has an addiction to tanning beds, or something.

[Dokkie]

3. I will never understand

why white people tan in the 1st place. Just use the spray tan, that way you have the ability to switch back to the pale look when the need arises. You also avoid skin cancer with the spray, cheap and healthy

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. it even comes in a tasteful orange hue, should you run for congress.

[WI_DEM]

6. 44-year old mom will have tough, ugly, leather like skin in 10 years.

[Raine1967]

7. EEK! this picture cannot be real, can it?

Via Huffpo this is from ABC.

[trumad]

8. Is her teeth tan?

[Raine1967]

17. This is just nasty.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. Its more extreme than that..

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tanning-booth-mom-says-arrest-taking-daughter-5-153138630.html

[Raine1967]

16. OMG.

This is really a bit sick.

[hifiguy]

23. Mother of Dog!

I wouldn't have believed that if I hadn't checked out the video. I have a 40-year old strap I have used on my basses that looks vastly better than that woman's skin.

[frylock]

9. you have to have a good base burn to achieve that jersey shore orange hue

[gratuitous]

11. Hmmmmm

If her little girl had been burned that badly simply by being in the room with the tanning booth, I would think Ms. Krentcil would be talking lawsuit. I suspect Ms. Krentcil may not be completely forthcoming at this point . . .

[a la izquierda]

12. I was almost afraid that this was going to be my sister...

sounds about as moronic as something she'd do.

[justabob]

13. not meaning to excuse this incident, but I have a question

Tanning beds/booths are not good for kids, but if sunburns are an indicator/evidence of child endangerment... What about all the kids getting scorched at the beach and in their own back yards/pools? What level of burn or source of burn is acceptable? Are people charged with child endangerment in such cases?

[shawn703]

14. I wouldn't find that out of the question

Since a parent would probably be expected to apply sunblock to his or her child if they will be outside in those kinds of conditions for any length of time. A mild sunburn from playing outside is one thing, but for it to be "pretty severe" (from personal experience I'm thinking peeling skin) there should have been some kind of precautions.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. That woman looked like a melanoma with feet.

[JCMach1]

19. the woman is lying

In the video interview you can see where the daughter's training bra straps left a burn line. She stripped her to her underwear and put her in the tanning bed.

The women is. Clearly sick

[RebelOne]

20. Surprisingly, she does not have skin cancer.

Whether it be from the sun or tanning beds, it is still ultraviolet rays, which can cause skin cancer.

[vankuria]

22. Doesn't mean she'll never get it.

Like most people who grew up in the 60's and 70's we were always outside in warm weather and had no idea how dangerous the sun was to your skin. I can remember as a teenager laying out with my friends and even putting on baby oil to burn quicker. As an adult I know how dangerous the sun is and take every precaution necessary however I've had 2 bouts of skin cancer on my nose. Thanks to a great plasic surgeon my scarring is very minimal. I believe the skin cancer I had was from the exposure I had growing up. Unfortunately there are many people including this very stupid overexposed mom who actually think they look good burnt to a crisp. I have to say this woman looks horrid and her skin is aged way beyond her 44 yrs. So glad I learned my lessons young.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

21. This reminds me of this "essay"

http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2009/04/critical-essay-orangeness-as-signifier/

In the 17th-19th Centuries, Western culture viewed tanned or “dark” skin along two axes of distinction. Firstly, a tan was a sign of lower class status, because it marked you as working in the fields and were therefore a day laborer. Alternately, it was a form of marking the body as Africanized, an impure non-white bloodline. With alabaster whiteness marked as a sign of aristocracy, any deviation reconfigured one’s body as “ethnic,” moving one towards the base prism of the “lower” classes; Latino, black, Italian or Asian.