# Super-tanned woman accused of child abuse \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747 "2012-05-03T12:53:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/21 "2012-05-03T14:44:52Z")
I’m waiting for the breaking news that she’s John Boehner’s cousin. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/22 "2012-05-03T14:50:13Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I’m waiting for the breaking news that she’s John Boehner’s cousin. Even George Hamilton is going " :eek: ". ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/23 "2012-05-03T14:53:45Z")
Notice the caption under the horrorshow of a picture. “Nutley mom,” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/24 "2012-05-03T14:59:47Z")
Merged duplicate threads and renamed merged thread. **grude** , this is one of the reasons we ask that people use more descriptive thread titles than “OMG what is that.” **Colophon** didn’t realize there was already a thread and started a new one. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/25 "2012-05-03T15:12:02Z")
I keep wondering about what if she and Michael Jackson had a kid… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/26 "2012-05-03T15:57:52Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I am confused over the fake tanning comment, which to me implies those silly cremes that turn people orange. That is basically like dye for your skin, it looks cool when you shower and half of your body is tanned and half is not. > > But then the story is about tanning beds and her daughter having a sun burn. I almost think it has to be fake tanning with how she looks. I’ve seen some creams that require you to still tan to get the effect. You just get dark a lot faster. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/27 "2012-05-03T16:04:32Z")
I saw a clip of her claiming her daughter was there but not in a tanning bed. The owners of the salon said the child wasn’t even in the building. The mother said she thinks her daughter went to school and told someone she went tanning with her mother, and the whole child protection thing started from there. Seems like no crime to me. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/28 "2012-05-03T16:18:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I keep wondering about what if she and Michael Jackson had a kid… Surely by the law of averages the kid would be a perfectly ordinary colour? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/29 "2012-05-03T16:26:58Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Surely by the law of averages the kid would be a perfectly ordinary colour? 😛 He would start out that way, but as an adult his pigments would reverse he’d be the exact same shade of the opposite color. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/30 "2012-05-03T16:39:48Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > The mother said she thinks her daughter went to school and told someone she went tanning with her mother, and the whole child protection thing started from there. Seems like no crime to me. Does it seem credible to you that the kid came by a “severe sunburn” in New Jersey in mid April some other way? > [@The Smoking Gun](#): > > The investigation of Krentcil began after cops were summoned to the elementary school attended by the kindergartener, who was in pain due to what appeared to be a severe sunburn. The subsequent probe determined, cops allege, that Krentcil took her child into a tanning booth at a Nutley parlor a week prior to her April 24 arrest. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/31 "2012-05-03T16:46:27Z")
Stick a fork in her; she’s done. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/32 "2012-05-03T16:58:38Z")
I’ve never been in a tanning salon, so I don’t know – are those booths big enough to hold two people? As for whether someone could get a sunburn in New Jersey in April, why not? We’ve had some slammin’ whether in the northeast recently. I got a sunburn in March, but I was in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/33 "2012-05-03T17:04:44Z")
Recent research seems to [indicate tanning may be addictive](http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/how-tanning-changes-the-brain/). > [@](#): > > What the researchers found was that several parts of the brain that play a role in addiction were activated when the subjects were exposed to UV rays. The findings, which appear in the coming issue of the journal Addiction Biology, may help explain why some people continue to tan often despite awareness about risks such as skin cancer, premature aging and wrinkles. > > “What this shows is that the brain is in fact responding to UV light, and it responds in areas that are associated with reward,” said Dr. Bryon Adinoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and an author of the study. “These are areas, particularly the striatum, that we see activated when someone is administered a drug or a high-value food like sugar.” The super-tan may have the same kind of physiological addiction that some of the morbidly obese among us have. That having been said, the latest news on this is, according to mom and dad, the kid had a normal sunburn as opposed to being with mom in the tanning bed. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/34 "2012-05-03T17:05:42Z")
If kids getting bad sunburns was a crime when I was a kid, 90 percent of the parents here in the deep south would still be doing time. Yeah, its possible she drug the kid into the tanning booth. But I think its also possible the ladies version of the story is true as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/35 "2012-05-03T17:07:22Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Does it seem credible to you that the kid came by a “severe sunburn” in New Jersey in mid April some other way? My wife got a sunburn last weekend in North Carolina, although “severe” doesn’t apply. Allegedly one is supposed to apply sunblock for any exposure longer than 15 minutes, in the current state of the ozone layer. But I haven’t seen what the authorities saw – in the video, the (fair-skinned) kid looks untouched by the sun. Is that supposed to be a “severe sunburn?” ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/36 "2012-05-03T17:49:55Z")
“This woman’s going to make some lucky man a beautiful wallet someday” 😃 Can’t take credit for that though, saw it on the Tosh.0 comments section ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/37 "2012-05-03T18:10:41Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > My wife got a sunburn last weekend in North Carolina, although “severe” doesn’t apply. Allegedly one is supposed to apply sunblock for any exposure longer than 15 minutes, in the current state of the ozone layer. > > But I haven’t seen what the authorities saw – in the video, the (fair-skinned) kid looks untouched by the sun. Is that supposed to be a “severe sunburn?” Being fair-skinned myself, I can attest that three weeks is enough time to go through an entire lobster-peel-whitefish cycle. Since there was an investigation before they decided to charge her, I think it likely must have been fairly evident that it wasn’t just from outdoor exposure. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/38 "2012-05-03T20:05:38Z")
[More photos of Ms. "Nut"ley](http://abcnews.go.com/US/tanning-mom-jersey-woman-suffer-tanorexia/story?id=16267543) Warning: NSFW. NSF Anywhere. You will need a good brain bleach after viewing these. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/39 "2012-05-03T20:31:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > As for whether someone could get a sunburn in New Jersey in April, why not? We’ve had some slammin’ whether in the northeast recently. I got a sunburn in March, but I was in Florida. I live in New York City ( right next door ) and I would’ve gotten a wicked sunburn this weekend if I hadn’t used sunscreen — I forgot to do the tops of my feet and they got pretty scorched. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747/40 "2012-05-03T20:39:37Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I live in New York City ( right next door ) and I would’ve gotten a wicked sunburn this weekend if I hadn’t used sunscreen — I forgot to do the tops of my feet and they got pretty scorched. I was thinking more of the awesome couple of days we had a few weeks ago, but yeah, this past weekend was chilly but sunny. I was on a boat for about an hour then walking around, all without a hat. I’m glad that I put sunblock on my bald head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-tanned-woman-accused-of-child-abuse-edited-title/620747.md?page=3)