Tanning enthusiast Patricia Krentcil was recently in hot water when she's accused of child endangerment by letting her 6-year-old daughter tan in a tanning bed:
Krentcil said when the school nurse asked her daughter how she got burned, she simply said, ‘I go tanning with mommy.’” However, the woman said her daughter’s burn was not from getting into a tanning bed, but from being outside and playing in the backyard.
“She’s 6 years old. Yes, she does go tanning with mommy, but not in the booth,” Krentcil said.
While little Anna might not be able to tell the story exactly as it happened, Krentcil is still in trouble with the law.
“The whole thing’s preposterous!” she said.
Krentcil said the incident has darkened her favorite hobby, but not enough to stop.
Link (with video clip of the very, very, VERY tanned woman - Photo: CBS2)
It's true that smoking around your kids is bad, but it's not the same as lighting one up for them. That would be the equivalent act in this case, making the child actively participate in something that is potentially dangerous to her health.
The other damage this woman is doing to her child is increasing the chance that her little girl will grow up without a mother. At the very least she will cause her daughter to have a distorted sense of self-esteem, as the mother clearly has esteem issues.
Funny thing is her arrest picture didn't look that brown. I think she sprayed one on for the cameras.