US Mother Charged Over Daughter's Tanning
 

A woman from New Jersey who appears to have an obsession with fake tanning has been charged with child endangerment after taking her then five-year-old daughter into a tanning salon.

Authorities say Patricia Krentcil's daughter, now six, turned up at her primary school in Nutley, New Jersey, with a sunburn on April 24, prompting a school nurse to contact police.

The heavily-tanned mother, 44, pleaded not guilty to the charge when she appeared in a Newark courtroom on Wednesday.

Krentcil's chocolate-brown hue testifies to countless hours spent under the intense ultraviolet light of a tanning bed or out in the sun soaking up rays.

But she denied bringing her fair-skinned daughter into the tanning booth of a salon that she frequents.

"I would not permit it," she told CBS TV in New York.

The owner of City Tropics Tanning said his staff did not see Krentcil get into the stand-up booth with her daughter when she came in for an April 22 tanning session.

"Of course not," said the man, who was identified only as Anthony.

"My workers wouldn't let a child go into a tanning room. She was outside with her father," he said. "If she went into the tanning room I think she would have disintegrated. She's a little girl."

The owner said police never came in to speak with his workers about the incident.

New Jersey is among several states that have adopted regulations prohibiting anyone age 14 or under from using ultraviolet devices because of the risk of skin cancer.


Sky


Do you think we should adopt such laws?

Absolutely, It's unbelievable a parent would do that to their child........personally I wouldn't even use them myself. 14 is still to young imo, they should raise that 18.

The Sunbeds Regulation Act in England and Wales states that no one under 18 is permitted to use or buy a sunbed.

Rightly so too

I see they came into force last year. I wasn't even aware. Ignore that question then. :whistle:

I saw this story the other day and it beggars belief what goes on in these people's minds.

Disgusting and far as I'm concerned, they are not fit to be parents. As for the tanning place: good god. But we have these 'unmanned' automated self service tanning places here in the UK - signs can say all they want - but they won't stop this (or young teens from going on them).

the best part was - without checking back at the article itself - it showed a photo of the mother - and she'd been quoted as saying her critics were jealous because they didn't look as good as her.

She clearly has either some phobia about looking in mirrors...... her skin was looked like 70year old leather shoe that had been lying the Sahara all those years.

I saw that woman on the news, 44! she looked like a leather handbag...Bahahahahaha

I'll all for freedom of choice but 5 is excessively young and I don't think they're in any capable state of making a rational decision.

18 is too old, but 5 is too young. I'd probably say 13 is an acceptable requirement.

she didn't look like any of my leather handbags I'll have you know! :hmph:

You think a 13 year old child is able to understand and fully comprehend the level of damage that sunbeds/tanning does to the skin? You seriously believe a 13 year old child fully absorbs and comprehends the long term effects? If they say they do understand but still go on them anyway - that's proof that they have no understanding.

A child is not responsible enough to make a decision such as that,for damage that may not show until decades later.

Well I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly knew how much damage it does aged 13, I wasn't stupid. And so did most people I know.

So either I'm more intelligent than most 13 year olds, or you don't really have much faith in them, or the education that they receive.

You base all 13 years olds on yourself then? That's quite some thought process there Jack.

Correct; you don't know about anyone else - and again correct: 'most of the people YOU know' does not equate to a sweeping generalisation of all 13 year olds. Also: females tend to use sunbeds, and teenage females in far higher proportion to male teenagers.

Absolutely disgusting. Sunbeds should be outlawed really. They're so dangerous. :bored:

Jesus look at the mother

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...n_1501842a.jpg

I think the age should be 15/16 to be able to use one

13 year olds are not capable of registering how damaging to their health using a sun bed can be.

the photo I saw - she wasn't quite as brown but christ, the deep deep crevices and wrinkles....hang on , I'll see if I can find it.... that's why I thought her comment about 'jealous because you don't look as good as me' astonishing!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...80_634x368.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...95_634x484.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...81_306x537.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...salon-fix.html



Look at the size of the pores on her face, the nick of it - the creases. This is what she is inflicting on a tender 5 year innocent child - it is sickening.

Look at the shocking image of this young woman...
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...0_1097386a.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...teenagers.html

Im sorry jack but I think 13 is far too young.