"Tanning Mom"

Have you ever heard of tanorexia? I hadn't until I saw this story on yahoo news about a mother who was accused of taking her five year old daughter tanning. This New Jersey mom is now being called "tanning mom" to boot. Her daughter went to school with what looked like a really bad sunburn one day so a teacher questioned it. The five year old said she had gone tanning with mom. This caused a lawsuit to occur. The mother denies letting her daughter tan and the owner of the tanning salon says that the daughter stayed in the lobby with her father and brother on the specific night in question.
Tanorexia is "a ‘compulsive’ drive to spend large amounts of time tanning under the sun or in a tanning bed, due in part to self-perception that one is too pale." I go and tan with my husband weekly. Both of us are really white, but I never want to be classified as tanorexic. I do not ever want to be that unnaturally dark either. It is sickening. This mother does seem to have a problem, but there are a lot of people who have the same issues. I don't think there was any means to call her out on her medical issues. Yes, I realize that the accusation about taking her five year old daughter tanning is what brought this about, but when people stretch the story to different subjects is when it becomes too much. The owner even backed the mothers story up here and unless they are on that good of terms that she paid him to do so or whatnot, the story should be dropped. Issues like this are crazy.
The medical issue behind this is that younger people are at a higher risk of developing a skin condition known as melanoma. Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer and can lead to death. Surgery is needed to treat melanoma. This mom has a very high chance of developing it if she does not already have it. I think that people should be more aware of the risks they are taking when they go to tan and that they should limit themselves if they must tan. As I said before, I tan, as does my husband, and even though I do not think I will ever completely quit tanning, I would definitely be more cautious about the medical issues it could lead to.
This mother has already gotten plenty of grief for what she does with her life, and she should not be trash talked because someone accused her of something that evidence seems to point out as a false accusation anyways. The lawsuit side of it is bogus and should be dropped. She knows it is illegal or atleast frowned upon to allow children to tan and as far as we know, she has not done anything to violate that. Let the new title go and let this family live their own lives.