The continuing saga of the New Jersey mother accused of bringing her daughter into a tanning booth with her thinks that she is the victim of an ongoing witch hunt.
STORY: What In The?!?! Mother Arrested For Putting 5 Y.O. Daughter In Tanning Booth?
Patricia Krencil spoke out yesterday, telling reporters:
“There’s somebody out there for my whole life that doesn’t like me because they are jealous, fat and they’re ugly.”
Krentcil entered a not guilty plea to her child endangerment charge in court on Wednesday, and she continues to claim that the arrest was simply the result of a misunderstanding.
Krentcil told a reporter from TMZ:
“I would never, ever put my daughter in a tanning booth. Any mother who makes an accusation about me is not a mother because I’m a great mother — I would never do that to my child.”
Everything started to spin out of control when a teacher of Krentcil’s daughter Anna noticed serious burns on the 5-year-old’s body.
Patricia’s husband, Rich Krentcil, stood up for his wife, telling the New York Daily News at their New Jersey home:
“They’re making her out to be a monster. She just likes it. She’s not a crazy maniac where she has to tan every day.”
Krentcil argues that Anna got her sunburn from playing in the yard. Her attorney, John Caruso, said that Krentcil will be exonerated, because the evidence will show the child never entered the booth:
“Forget about the presumption of innocence; my client is 150 per cent innocent. She loves that child more than her whole life. She would never, ever allow her child to go inside a tanning bed.”
Krentcil said she loves tanning and has visited salons for many years but would not do anything to jeopardize her daughter’s health.
Police arrested Krentcil on April 24. She took the child to the tanning salon the week before, authorities say.
The charge was upgraded to a felony Monday, and Krentcil was released after posting $25,000 bail.
