Woman beats grandson for eating too much bacon, say Pa. police

By: Barry Leibowitz
Topics: Daily Blotter

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(CBS/AP) CLIFTON HEIGHTS, Pa. - If the cholesterol doesn't get you, your grandmother might.

A southeastern Pennsylvania woman, 63-year-old Marilee Ann Kolynych, is accused of beating her 9-year-old grandson and blasting him in the face with a garden hose, because he ate too much bacon at the breakfast table.

The Delaware County Daily Times reports that Kolynych was arrested Tuesday.

Clifton Heights police say Kolynych was angry at her grandson because she believed he ate too much bacon that morning and didn't leave enough for everyone else.

Police say she assaulted the boy, knocking him to the ground. They say witnesses reported that Kolynych pinned him down, beat him on the legs and then sprayed him with the hose. He did not require medical attention.

Kolynych is being held on $25,000 bail.

That's a lot of bacon.

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by Imthaid2 July 3, 2011 1:01 PM EDT: This is EXACTLY how repuppetcans want it. Americans fighting each other over food while the rich stuff their closets with money.; Reply to this comment


by angel_722 July 2, 2011 10:32 PM EDT: what a psycho!!!; Reply to this comment

by AlFranken July 2, 2011 12:01 PM EDT

I received a phone call in which I heard my Chinese wife trying to explain in her very broken English what was going on when a man took the phone from her and told me I better get there now.
My newly arrived Chinese wife with our 2 year old son could only say "no trouble" "no trouble" which means "I want no trouble leave me alone"
She didn't have the language aptitude to explain the situation and the guy that took the phone from her wouldn't go into detail but rather ordered me to come immediately. All he would say is that they are in front of Vons.

I started to panic as I rushed to get appropriate clothes while saying
"what?"
"what?"
"What is going on?"
Vons is only a quarter mile or so from my house but a real hassle to get to because of all the traffic dividers and as I was driving up towards Vons, I can hear the police sirens which caused me to panic even more. As I finally reached the area I could see police cars surrounding my wife and son at the bus stop in which then I stopped in the middle of traffic and started running to the area.
( at this point, until I saw my son, I was assuming I took her communication out of context and started to think the worse - my son had been killed by a car - not thinking rationally with all the variables)
One of the policemen kindly gestured for me to get my car out of the middle of the blvd. with a smile on his face suggesting to me to relax.
As I was driving around the dividers and into the parking lot I could see a dozen or so spectators with their expressions which made my intuition start to realize what this was really about especially knowing how my wife and other Mothers around the world handle their children compared to well-t- do socially correct Southern Californians.
I slowly strolled over to the scene smiling at the spectators with complete confidence of what this was all about showing body language of no concern and sort of laughing at the bunch.
I perfectly interpreted the body language of the 4 or 5 Sheriffs and just played along with them as our main concern was not to frighten my son with all this drama as I was glancing over my shoulder at the crowd holding their Starbucks latte's proudly standing there as some sort of heroes of the day.

My son managed to get off the bus before my wife could get the stroller off as he started darting across the Vons parking lot.

In a panic, she dropped everything and managed to catch him before he got hurt and then started screaming at him and spanking him when apparently some "good Samaritans" rushed over and grabbed the stroller so she couldn't leave and called the police.
She was a lot more humble than I was as I almost came to blows with the same guy that was on the phone as he looked just like some sort of wanna-be a child welfare officer with my wife tugging at me - "no trouble"
We now have a daughter as well and we are living happily in a village in North China where the children are happily playing on the dirt roads as their parents look on. I never hear a child getting a beaten but what I do see is a very happy and functional families.
Conclusion: this really wasn't about my sons safety but their opportunity to display their disrespect to economic class disparities - most if not all who ride the bus into Westlake Village are maids, and nanny's
These so call communists who "beat their children" act far more Christ like and have far more liberties then we do. As once a construction Superintendent in Southern California and now an English Teacher in China, I am a Father figure to hundreds of children and I receive so much love on daily basis, I can barely hold my emotions back at times. Trust me, their actions towards my wife on that terrible day was not out of concern for my child.

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by AlFranken July 2, 2011 12:21 PM EDT: Oh, I forgot: My children grab my hand as we begin to cross the busy street as they fear for my safety as well. -- the lessons of tough love.


by AlFranken July 3, 2011 4:34 PM EDT: gbear --lol

I courted and married her in China in one year while teaching conversational English then returned to the states. The hardest part of learning Chinese is the very beginning and we crippled ourselves by using an electronic translator. 8 months later, she immigrated to the states and got pregnant. We lived in Los Angeles that 3 years when my son was born and I was the sole provider as a construction superintendent in which I never worked less than 50 hours per week and many times 70 at the completion phase.

When I lived in China, I lived and worked on a campus housed with other Americans teaching conversational English to English majors -- I spent my whole time talking English and that is what I was paid to do. So working full time in the states and living with other Americans, when do I have time to study Chinese? I did go to East L.A. College to study there but that isn't how it works you have to emerge yourself in the culture in order to learn a tonal language.

Who do you know that has even came semi close to becoming semi fluent in a tonal language living in the states? --- exactly

She wasn't' interested in learning English but only to make money in the states and we both know that doesn't work very well so she failed and wanted to return to China.

I've been in China a total of probably over 4 years, traveling back forth, now and I'm pretty close to fluent now but anyone that knows Chinese as a Westerner knows that Chinese is the hardest language to learn with over 3000 characters to learn just to be semi fluent with over 300 dialects across the country.

You know what? 26 letters in the alphabet? --- exactly

Regardless, I can go anywhere in China and survive quite well -- get job, order the food I want, rent an apartment....
I do fine.

I spent 2 of the 4 years in and near Hong Kong which is Cantonese/Vietnamese/and many other mixed dialects where as my wife comes from the North which is pure Han yin/ Putonghua / Guoyu, often called "Mandarin"(original and official language).

Your question came across like some sort of smart-ass but that is okay because I too was ignorant at that level at one time in life as well. ;)


by barbaram99 July 2, 2011 10:51 AM EDT: We were called to meal at table and we each had our place we sat at table. The food was on our plates. There was not extra food in dishes at table. Just the salt/pepper. This was in the foster home. I was the only blind child in the home and at school. I am legally blind in one eye and totally blind in the other. when I visited family years ago I did nid help my self. The food was put on my plate. I could ask for more. If granted the fully sighted adult would take my plate and put thr item/s I asked there. To pass the salt/pepper I waited for the their hand I could put them in their hand. Passing food I can not do.
I know years ago children were taught to share. Yep. I could not share my school books with another. I could write the class work from the bload and the teacher asked for it. I tryed to tell her as a blind pupil the blackboard was useless to me. She never got it.
Later I bough food in an eatery and told I could not share it. If I did I would have gone to jail. I can not eat in front of my tablemate while he has nothing. I won't.I will go wwithout if I don't have the money for us to eat out I was brought it is rude to do so.
My Nana would have handled this way..She would have put the food on his plate..Not him. If he wanted a slice of bread Nana would hand it to him.
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by venusvegasvada July 2, 2011 1:55 AM EDT

She must make some DAMN good bacon.

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by byrdh5n1 July 2, 2011 10:08 AM EDT: This story sizzles......


by dantt-2009 July 2, 2011 12:34 AM EDT: I guess the police is gonna be happier in a few years when the kid gets arrested for stealing and gets assaulted in jail. Discipline is becoming a thing of the pass in the US, that is why so many kids in the US are spoiled and arrogant and aspire to imitate trash like the Kardasians. If people wonder why the Chinese & India are passing us over. Just like the Roman the country is in full decadence at this point. Go do your little time out now since it works so well and be friends with your kids; Reply to this comment

by guest173 July 2, 2011 12:10 AM EDT

Jesus says don't look at the speck in your brother's eye and ignore the log in your own, that's what this grandma is doing. blasting a kid with a hose???

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by guest173 July 2, 2011 12:13 AM EDT: I am all for teaching kids to respect but start using allowance/fines at older ages, not crazed assaults


by opticallady1 July 2, 2011 12:05 AM EDT: I would give up anything for my grand kids bacon included.; Reply to this comment


by curse914 July 1, 2011 10:10 PM EDT: The kid got an Old Testament styled beating. He is lucky to not have been stoned to death.; Reply to this comment

by mollydtt July 1, 2011 6:21 PM EDT

I wonder what else this grandma has done, (the stuff that happened inside out of view of others).

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by bigsk8fan July 1, 2011 8:11 PM EDT: i was wondering the same thing. beating up a kid for eating too much bacon makes me wonder what happens when the kids eats too much ice cream!


by mgunn89512 July 2, 2011 1:26 AM EDT: Who knows, maybe not much more... can't believe you can't discipline kids any more... put the kid on the ground (knocked implies a punch with a fist which I highly doubt) , hit the LEGS (which are not particularly fragile and means she consciously avoided the face, etc.) and it concludes the child is fine (the threshold to exaggerate and take the kid to the hospital for even minor cuts is huge, but apparently this didn't even generate that). And then grannie gets arrested. Amazing.


by HikerDan July 2, 2011 3:28 AM EDT: So, mgunn, is it your attempt to tell that you were beat up as a child for taking the biggest apple off the tray and, still, you turned out to be OK? But it could be that you are the only one who thinks that you are OK...


by AMH2730 July 3, 2011 1:18 AM EDT: mgunn...I hope to God you don't have kids...you psycho...