ShareThisBREMERTON, Wash. -- The night before her wedding, a 31-year-old Poulsbo, Wash., woman beat up her fiance -- after her son informed her that he had just witnessed the man kiss a female friend of his mom.Kitsap County sheriff's deputies were called to the house at about 1:55 a.m. Thursday when the 12-year-old called 911, reports said.The boy told investigators his mother and her live-in boyfriend were to be married and were celebrating at the house with her female friends. While his mother was out of the room, the boy saw the 31-year-old man kissing one of his mother's friends.The boy confronted the man, but the man denied it.After telling his mom, who according to reports had been drinking, she kicked her friends out of the house. She also told her fiance to leave, but then started hitting him in the face. The man attempted to leave, but the woman followed him outside and tackled him "like what football players do," the report said, and kept punching the man in the face with an open and closed fist.When deputies questioned the woman, she admitted to assaulting the man, as well as throwing his watch in the bushes and breaking his glasses. She was arrested and booked into jail for investigation of fourth-degree assault.The boy was taken to a family friend's house for the night. The man told deputies, "I refuse to hit a female."Said the woman: "I hit him and it's my fault but I am so broken-hearted."From the Kitsap Sun newspaper in Bremerton, Wash.
Bride beats groom the night before their wedding
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