Old Lycoming Township woman charged with abusing disabled son
								Yasmin Kalani is taken to the Lycoming County Prison on Tuesday following her arraignment on charges of allegedly abusing her special needs teenage son. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
Calling her special needs teenage son a “(expletive) animal,” Yasmin Kalani threw a fast-food burger on the floor and told him “Feed your (expletive) self. Eat it off the floor you little (expletive),” it is stated in a police affidavit.
This incident, which took place on the morning of Dec. 31, was caught on video as were two others that also happened in Kalani’s Old Lycoming Township home at 1940 Frey Ave. on Feb. 9, Lycoming Regional police alleged in the court document.
Upset that her son had messed his pants, Kalani came down a set of interior steps and grabbed the teen “by the head and pulled him backwards off a couch. While yelling at him, she told him to get upstairs,” according to one of last month’s videos, police said.
The son “sat on the floor, appearing to look confused” as Kalani, 38, continued to scream at him as she peppered her commands with obscenities, police said.
The video then shows Kalani approaching her son and “putting her knee into his back three times as she yelled at him to get up,” Detective Jordan Mahosky alleged in the court document.
“”You just (expletive) pissed everywhere,” the mother told her son.
The other house video taken that day about 20 minutes later showed Kalani and her son coming down a stairway and the mother saying “No more pissing in your pants,” and “I’m sorry I kneed you in the back, but you wouldn’t get up,” Mahosky said in the affidavit.
The mother told him “I won’t hit you with the diaper anymore” as she kissed him on the cheek, the detective said.
As the son walked by the camera, “there appeared to be a mark on the right side of his face,” Mahosky said.
The victim has “severe intellectual disabilities” with the mind of a toddler, he added.
Arrested at her home on Tuesday morning, Kalani was arraigned before District Judge William Solomon on two misdemeanor counts of abuse of a care-dependent person and committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.
The son is under protective custody with the county’s Children and Youth Department.






