Who wouldn't be?
'Tanning Mom' Says She's Innocent and Critics Are 'Jealous': Believe Her?
SodaHead Living
2012/05/04 18:00:00
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Have you heard about the "tanning mom" yet? Patricia Krentcil of New Jersey has been accused of taking her 6-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, causing skin burns ... but she says she's innocent and her critics are "jealous."
"I'm innocent and it's proven... I would never -- never -- put my daughter in a tanning booth. We go out shopping. That's what we do," Krentcil told TMZ on Thursday. "Any mother that makes an accusation about me is not a mother, because I'm a great mother and I would never do that to my child." When asked by TMZ if she's the target of a witch hunt, Krentcil replied: "Yes. Yes. There's somebody out there on my whole life that doesn't like me because they're jealous, they're fat and they're ugly."
Krentcil does have some people on her side, though. The owner of City Tropics Salon in Nutley said employees who were there that day told him the girl remained outside with her father and brother and didn't go into the tanning booth while Krentcil was inside, CBS and The Associated Press report. New Jersey state law prohibits anyone under 14 from using a tanning salon.
Krentcil, who faces a second-degree child endangerment charge, pleaded not guilty in Newark Municipal Court on Wednesday morning; she's now free on a $2,500 cash bond. Police told The Nutley Sun newspaper they were called to the child's school April 24 because the kindergartner was in pain from a "pretty severe sunburn," and that she was complaining of itching, saying she had been to a tanning salon with her mom. Krentcil says her little girl got a sunburn from being outside on a warm day.
Top Opinion
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Melizmatic 2012/05/04 18:15:10No
+39Oh yeah, I'm totally jelly of anyone who looks like a living, breathing Naugahyde ottoman.
Who wouldn't be?
I think it is appalling that we here in America can come to conclusions based on bits and pieces of information in such a way as to convict someone without sufficient evidence.
I am so glad that I am not subjected to most of America being on a jury deciding my fate.
This little girl has rosie cheeks and in no way show signs of haven been tanned, I say less not convict this mother because her skin looks a bit toasty...JOMO
She looks like another Michael J, but going in the opposite direction.
Oh well all I wanted to say was...
Besides the probable skin cancer....she looks ugly as hell. She doesn't even look real. Her face looks so......ugh............
The only reason people think she's guilty of something is because she's black.
I have fair skin and when I was a teenager I stayed in the sun too long and was
burned even worse than she was. And I was with other teenagers & adults at a
beach.
I really would like to know.