A Pennsylvania woman is accused of leaving her two young children in a car parked with its engine running while she went to a tanning salon, NBC station WGAL reports.
The incident occurred Saturday morning in Elizabethtown, WGAL said. Police said an officer spotted an idling car along a street and found a 6-year-old girl and 10-month-old boy were inside.
"He asked the girl where her parents were at and the young girl said that her mother was across the street at the tanning salon. As he spoke to the young girl, he also observed an infant in a child restraint seat in the rear seat area. The young girl said that she was not to talk to strangers and began to cry. The officer explained that he was not a stranger and that he was there to help," according to a police news release cited by WGAL.
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The officer found the mother, Krista Mann, in the salon and discovered that her license was suspended in connection with DUI, police said.
Mann is charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of children, two counts of leaving an unattended child in a motor vehicle and driving under suspension, DUI-related.
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The mom is ugly so why bother to tan.
lol that's probably why she was tanning. I for one don't like the whole tan look and think that milky white skin is more attractive. But as it seems most people prefer the tan look and apparently think that "looking good" is far more important then their kids.
When they suspended her license she thought they said "tanned" not "banned"..............simple misunderstanding.
She definitely wades in the shallow end of the gene pool.
Can we suspend her license to have children? Seriously, if you don't want to take the responsibility of having a kids seriously, don't have kids. They are human beings who, especially when small, need constant care.
But being tan is beautiful. Right?
She tanned so long she fried her brain cells.
Wish the person that wrote the article had used
a grammar check first!
Daughter from Virginia, do you think your grammar is correct?
Why do people like this have children?
I did not know that people would go to any links to get their tan on. Someone needs some serious counseling.
Daugher from Virginia,
It's "the person who wrote..." NOT "the person THAT wrote..."
So it's YOUR grammar that needs to be checked!
The article also doesn't have picture of the mother. Where is the picture so I can see how ugly she apparently is?
You misspelled 'daughter' as 'daugher'. However, your grammar is correct.
I would never intentionally use bad grammar to get under somebodies skin (hehehe), it just comes naturally.
Women just get crazy about some things - my wife has spent 4 months getting ready for her nieces wedding (in 10 days) and racked up well over $500.00. I'll spend about 20 minutes getting ready.
If this tan woman is divorced - she won't have the kids for long. We'll see her on Hardcore Pawn hocking her wedding ring for more tanning sessions - and bus fare.
I think this story has more to do with an unfit mother and not with tanning. The woman probably left her children in the car more times than just to go tan. Almost anyone can have children, unfortunately they are not all fit to raise them.
Where do I start on this one? ......I guess the DUI suspension kinda tells the story best. It is important to look tanned and good for those late nights hanging at the bar because the "pale" chicks are the ones still there untill closing time. She needs to get her "hookup" before too late since she has to get home for the children. Of course without all those "hookups" she may not have those two little kids waiting in the car for her. Seems like a vicious circle. My guess is she will have 3 kids waiting in the car before too long.
This woman proves yet again that just because a woman can be impregnanted doesn't mean she has a clue as to how to be a mother. This one short article shows just how stupid one person can be on so many levels. Maybe tanning also cooks the brain cells?
She must have read the "tanorexic" story and was afraid to take her kids in the salon with her in case she was charged with child endangerment there.
bingo.
I was thinking it might have been the 2 kids that were run over buy the car and she was just trying to teach them where to go.
With such great parenting skills being common these days is it any wonder we read so many stories about out of control kids? I mean really, with that kind of role model what chance does a kid have of growing up to be responsible and not always being "Me First" about everything.
Well said!!
a TEN MONTH OLD???? is this lady out of her freakin mind?? where are all these moronic people coming from? it seems daily now some idiot does something to endanger their own child. the guy strapping his 4 kids to the hood of his car while he drove because he thought it would be fun, the too-tan mom taking her daughter in there to tan, and now this imbecile!
thank God that officer saw these kids. well done, Sir!
How does not being taken care of properly by your parents, being left alone unattended, left in cars, etc., cause a child to grow up to be a "me first" person? If anything, they'll grow up to be a "me LAST" person. Geez.
airrika, parents who put themselves first are showing their children that putting your wants before others is the way to act. Parents are the primary role models in a childs life and children tend to emulate their parents. Children learn their values from the parents and if all they see is "Me First" then that is what they will think is good and right.
Wow! Let's see, leaves her kids in the car to go tanning AND does something to draw attention to herself and the fact that she's driving w/ a suspended license.
Was she trying to look her best at the next MENSA meeting?
I wish we couldn't breed unless we passed basic IQ, financial and parenting tests.
Nothing to preclude anyone who really wants to have kids, but just hard enough to make sure you are serious about it. Question 1 can be if it's ok to leave 3 kids under 10 in a running car while you are getting a tan...
Your right to procreate has been revoked due to poor reading comprehension. There were 2 children, not 3 in the car. One child was 6, one was 10 months. Please report to the nearest serialization center.
you mean sterilization center?
Do you mean sterilization center?
Answs to question #1? Only if the LAW ALLOWS?
Ron's right revoked for spelling errors. You know the saying about glass houses and stones?
damn speel check! (sic) Besides, what does a spelling error have to do with the simple fact that EngEsq can't read? BTW, raise a son on my own, great kid at 31 years of age. Glad to have done so before this country got to this point.
Why are you guys reading articles and making comments when you have English papers to grade?
That would be great except the RWNJ's want everyone that gets knocked up to have their babies, regardless if they are capable parents or not. If Mitt is elected, there will be millions more of these types of parents. Ones who never intended to have kids but were forced by the state to carry their pregnancy to term. And since there will be no help at the state or federal level--there will be starving and neglected babies all over the country.
This woman just proves what I've always held to be true. You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can be a parent.
Poor kids! I just don't know where these selfish, immature people come from. Who risks their kids safety like this? Is there a way to stop these people from procreating?
Really. Too bad it doesn't take brains to have sex.
howie your right RonfromJersey has sex all the time ..oopppps I forgot I saw on TV all Jersey has in bunch of whoring woman
Brian, sex and procreation are two different things. Maybe some day when a woman will actually give you the time of day you'll come to understand that. Yeah, Jersey has a bad rap along with many other states. Lots of well deserved jokes. Maybe you should stop counting on "reality TV" for your reality.
If you ask most women that would eliminate most of us men from having sex ever again.
every year we loose children because they r left in a car while one parent shops. I'm glad she's being punished for this. If u can't take your kids with u then either have someone to watch them or don't go. Your children should be top priority at all times.
Darn loose children anyway.
Sex and procreation are two different things? I don't know about you, but if he's not good enough to be the father of my children, then he's not good enough to have sex with either. But that's just me.
Just more evidence that all common sense has vanished in this country.
The world has always had stupid people in it. Nothing to do with our country or how it's changed over time. We just get to read about it all the time now because of the internet, and the fact that stories about people doing normal, intelligent things just aren't as interesting.
You are absolutely right, and she probably would have made up some car jacking story if her car was stolen while her kids were inside. It's sad how some parents never place their kids first, when it comes to their well being.
Common sense - so rare, it has become a superpower.
At another place on MSN home page it reports a father stopped at a liquor store and on leaving, strapped his three children and a child of his girlfriend to the hood of his truck with a lumber tie-down, to take them for a "ride" which he thought they would enjoy. I'm not sure people like these two should not be sterilized to prevent them from having any more children to abuse or expose to extreme danger.
Na, that was another State this ones sisters were tanning out in the middle of the street and were run over by their cousin, she was trying to show this one where to go to tan right.
Such a sad story....
What the hell is wrong with her? Hasn't she heard of all the sick people out there kidnapping and killing kids?
I guess her tan was more important than her kids. If she wants to tan she should try taking her kids to the park and get some sun.
The chances of someone kidnapping or killing your kid are practically zero. I'd be more worried about them wandering off or putting the car in drive (like I did when I was a kid).
Smeado - not only the chances of kidnapping or killing, but how about when a kids die because they suffocate or die of heat exhausion. With summer and warmer weather coming we all need to remember that it gets hot in a car quickly on a hot day.
I'd be more worried about some sicko taking the kids, not for money, but for their own personal enjoyment. Those are the kids you find buried in shallow graves 10yrs later, or never find again.
Probably trying to get rid of the rug rats. Leave the car running.
She needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Obviously she loves her tanning more than her children. There are thousands of honest, hard working, and loving couples who would make those children better parents. Sorry to say, she does not deserve the privledge nor does she have the brains to raise children.
They take kids away from moms who are at home with their kids just for having smoked pot (not even in front of their kids), but they don't take away the kids from a mom who has abandoned them in an unlocked, running vehicle, free to run around on the street and risk getting run over or kidnapped, or free to try driving the car and killing themselves and others...all because her tanning fix is more important. I don't get it.
Cite the source of your comment.
I would like to know where this occured, and if there wasn't more to the story.
Call any Child protective service in any city or state. If a complaint is filed they will remove the child if around drugs or aperson who uses or has just used drugs and you will be sent for a drug test that day..
Of course the mother is a fruitcake..but its shocking that a police officer would lie to a six year old..told her he's not a stranger..of course he is to her!
on the bright side at least the little girl knew she wasn't aloud to talk to strangers!
Mike277 that is exactly what I was thinking - the officer should have apologized to the child and agreed that he was a stranger - so much for what little teaching the poor child did get from her mother.
Nice thinking. You teach children that police officers are safe to talk to, not avoid. You ignore the police officer, he then is required to call CPS and you end up sitting in foster care till the issue is resolved
Mike, when I was growing up, I was taught that the policeman was my friend. I remember when I was about 7yrs old going to some church thing after school, my brothers and I got separated. I went to the policeman that was standing on the corner, and he called my parents.
I always knew if there was any trouble, that the police would help me.
Children should never be taught to fear the police. Yes, there are some bad cops, but for the most part they are there to help.
She is a piece of crap for sure. What an idiot!! Poor kids. Where is their Dad, I wonder. I hope he is a better parent than she is. They need someone good in their lives. Not people like their Mother!!
What is wrong with parents? You never leave your child in the car. I dont care if i am running in the store for two minutes to pay the attendent or to buy a soda, i take my kids with me. Running car or not... i would never leave my children in the car.
Some parents today really have no common sense when it comes to the welfare of their own children. i cannot believe that this women felt that her tan was more important. Ever heard of a babysitter lady? Where is the father in all of this? Poor kids...
Somebody is going to claim tanning causes amnesia, like I forgot that a six year old should not be left alone in a running car with a baby, oh yeah, and I guess I don't have a valid drivers license after my DUI arrest.
tanmnesia? I think you may be onto something! lol!
Jail time might help her remember. Doesn't seem like just revoking her driving license did any good.
Give it time. Some smart lawyer will come up with some defense that tanning is a constitutional right, or that she was raised in an unhappy household and that caused her to become addicted to tanning.
Who are we going to blame? The sun?
What The F--K!!!
You mothers do not deserve your kids. Is tanning so much more important then the welfare of your children...to you, hell yes you dumb@!$%#s, they need to be taken away from you.
The first mother looked like she was the star on "Planet of the Apes", god god that women needed mental health and this one leaves an infant with a 6 year old in a running vehicle, real smart...TAKE THE KIDS AWAY, her brain is fried from tanning and alcohol.
Tanless in Seattle
this lady is nuts.. didn't she see what happened on " look who's talkin' " when mikey was in that taxi with a drumstick!? and it actually sounds like the little girl had more sense than the mother considering she was sitting there buckled up and scared to even talk to a stranger.
What a moron! If she thinks that risking her skin to cancer is worth having a tan, why would she think it's dangerous to leave her kids alone in a car? She probably doesn't have a clue!
It kills me to see people like her breed like a dog in heat - give birth to her "litter" and not give a damn about anything but her tan. I feel sorry for the kids and sadly, they'll end up growing up to be just like her because it's all they'll know from their "role model" ugh..... happy mother's day.
she's badly in need of therapy and a few 12-step programs for sure. she is the product of a dysfunctional home, which is what she has created for her own kids. it is too bad that people are allowed to breed without being licensed. at least half the world wouldn't pass the test, which is fine for everyone else. the world is already overpopulated.
Ah, now we're going to be hearing every single story that even remotely involves tanning salons and children.
That's funny, she is getting married at the end of the month, and probably wants to impress everybody. She should ask the mug shot photographer if he also does weddings. Might be able to do a deal - repeat business, and all that.
What a moron.
They should add another charge "excessive stupidity"....
If she doesn't want a pale indoor face, she should play outside with her kids, or take them to the park and enjoy them.