Charges recently have been brought against a New Jersey woman for allegedly taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning bed with her.
As reported in many venues, including The Bloomfield Patch, Patricia Krentcil, 44, has denied the charges, saying her daughter was at the tanning salon with her, but not in the bed. The child did have a sunburn, but Krentcil has said she got that gardening. The child has been placed in the custody of her father pending the outcome of the case.
However, it is pictures of Krentcil herself that have shocked people following the case. As can be seen in the YouTube Video of an NBC Today Show interview, Krentcil has taken tanning to the extreme, prompting doctors to weigh in all over the country on the dangers of extreme tanning. Some say extreme tanning can become an addiction and cause the tanner to be unaware that they have taken it to such extremes.
So the question here is, how much tanning is too much and should tanning salon owners, like pubs, be obligated to cut a tanner off when it becomes obvious they have lost control? What do you think?
As for the child, the salon should have full knowledge if the child entered the actual tanning bed or not. If they don't then they are not monitoring very well and are providing an unsafe and potential dangerous environment to kids. I've never been in a tanning salon so I'm not sure how that all works. And not to take blame from the mother, but the salons need to make sure kids of certain age cannot enter the tanning beds.
Just look at her in this video interview, for Pete's sake mom looks like she's made out of a tootsie roll -- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57425927-504083/patricia-krentcil-new-jersey-mother-accused-of-putting-her-6-year-old-girl-in-tanning-bed Also, the alleged incident was reported a week (ish?) ago so if the girl did have some tanbedburn it could have healed. With that said, I personally think the arrest bail and child endangerment charges are a little over the top.