Mom accused of stripping sent to jail

STAFF/WIRE REPORTS
MERCER, Pa. -- A woman accused of playing stripper at her teenage son's birthday party last summer after plans to ride go-carts fizzled was sentenced to three to 15 months in jail.
Judge Christopher St. John of Mercer County Common Pleas Court scolded Patricia M. Johnson, 35, of Hermitage, as he sentenced her Thursday in the July 26 incident. "I think you need to get a big message that this is totally unacceptable," the judge said.
Johnson, who did not admit stripping for the 13- to 16-year-old youths, pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor corruption charge and furnishing alcohol to minors at the Radisson Hotel in West Middlesex.
Johnson, her son, and three of his teenage friends met at a recreation center but found that go-carts they planned to ride were rented out, authorities said. Johnson then bought the boys beer and rented a hotel room, where she stripped and engaged in other inappropriate behavior, authorities charged.
Johnson acknowledged allowing the boys to drink alcohol and participating in horseplay with them. She also said her behavior was atypical and fueled by pills and alcohol.