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New Jersey mom arrested after allegedly taking daughter, 5, into tanning booth
NBCNewYork.com ^ | 5/2/12 | By Ida Siegal

Posted on 05/02/2012 8:37:46 AM PDT by Mr. K

A New Jersey woman was arrested after police said she brought her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, causing the girl to suffer burns.

But 44-year-old Patricia Krentcil, who was charged with second-degree child endangerment, said her daughter was never exposed to the tanning booth's UV rays and instead got slightly sunburned while playing outside on a warm day.

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The girl's father told NBC 4 New York his daughter told classmates at school that she "went tanning with Mommy." He thinks a teacher overheard, inaccurately connected the girl's sunburn to the tanning salon trip and contacted police.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: essexcounty; nutley; tanning
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Nanny state intrusion into everything- idiot teacher think they must report everything to the authorities- and for the most part they are right because they will be in trouble if they don't

no one has any common sense any more, including this mother who is obviously buring herself so deeply her brain is affected

where does she work? with all this time for the tanning booth I wonder- are WE paying for her?

1 posted on 05/02/2012 8:37:52 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Mr. K

Yeah, she's lovely.

2 posted on 05/02/2012 8:44:18 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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I’m wondering if this isn’t one of those pageant moms. Couldn’t she have just sprayed her with than tanning spray?


3 posted on 05/02/2012 8:44:51 AM PDT by TheRhinelander
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To: Mr. K
No mention of how badly burned the kid was. Was she slightly pink, red and peely, or blistered. I've been all three when I was a kid. The last when I was old enough to have known better.

Also, the mother's picture in the article is frightening. She should have stopped tanning about 40 years ago.

4 posted on 05/02/2012 8:46:20 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: Mr. K

Sometimes parents mean it when they threaten to tan their child’s hide.


5 posted on 05/02/2012 8:46:20 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Puppage

That’s the mother??? She’s gonna be a poster-pic for skin cancer before she’s 50.


6 posted on 05/02/2012 8:47:17 AM PDT by alancarp (Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
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To: Mr. K

The mother looks like something from Planet of the Apes.


7 posted on 05/02/2012 8:49:47 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: TheRhinelander
Or she could take tanning pills and exceed the recommended dosage level resulting in something similar to this!


8 posted on 05/02/2012 8:50:16 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Puppage

Holy cow.


9 posted on 05/02/2012 8:51:33 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Puppage
WHAT THE?!? ... is this story fromThe Onion?

10 posted on 05/02/2012 8:51:46 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Mr. K; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GSP.FAN; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; Clintonfatigued

Life imitating “art”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzz-p6Ulas


11 posted on 05/02/2012 8:52:07 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The stench of Earth Pimp-age is permeating over the internet...)
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I remember my mom buying a sun lamp and sitting us all in front of it for ten minutes or so on winter evenings to ensure that we all got enough Vitamin D.

Please tell me that the statute of limitations has run out.


12 posted on 05/02/2012 8:58:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I tended to buy the “misunderstanding” story unitl I saw the video of the Mom. She appears to have disfigured herself through excessive tanning. She appears to have extremely, poor judgment when it comes to tanning, so, while it might have been a misunderstanding, it would not suprise me at akk if she put her 5 year old in a tanning booth.

I hope this woman gets the help she needs, because she appears to have a real problem. I am rather disgusted that tanning salons would continue to serve this woman.


13 posted on 05/02/2012 9:00:33 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: Puppage

Is she one of those ‘tanning bed addicts’ ?


14 posted on 05/02/2012 9:01:12 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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...it would not suprise me at akk if she put her 5 year old in a tanning booth.

Based on what you stated, it seems almost without doubt that is exactly what she did.

15 posted on 05/02/2012 9:05:02 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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>>>Nanny state intrusion into everything- idiot teacher think they must report everything to the authorities- and for the most part they are right because they will be in trouble if they don’t <<<

While I agree that there is a “nanny state teacher” problem, I think the teacher did the right thing in reporting this. I presume the teacher has seen the mother and her horribly disfigured face, apparently the result of extreme over-tannning.

I imgaine the teacher feared that the mother was going to disfigure the little girl the way she has disfigured herself.


16 posted on 05/02/2012 9:05:02 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: Puppage
Hubba hubba

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17 posted on 05/02/2012 9:07:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Puppage

[is there a rotisserie involved?]

18 posted on 05/02/2012 9:13:13 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: thethirddegree

LOL


19 posted on 05/02/2012 9:14:00 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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20 posted on 05/02/2012 9:16:25 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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