No matter who you are, you can't go around beating on people. You can't go around telling those in your employ that they don't matter, or are nobodies - slavery and indentured servitude were abolished long ago.

This whole case shines an unpleasant light on the unsavory underbelly of the affluent Main Line. This woman should consider herself fortunate of her social status (achieved for her by her parents and their hard work over the years), as it can be considered that she might have received much harsher treatment for beating an employee with a bag of carrots if her family wasn't prominent. This heiress has been sentenced to fines, one year probation, community service, and anger management.

We have some suggestions for the community service: driving people for Eldernet, working in a homeless shelter, delivering meals on wheels to shut ins, or working in a hospice immediately come to mind.

We almost feel sorry for this Main Line Mama, because this will haunt her much like Mayflower Madam Status will always haunt Sidney Biddle Barrows, or the inaprropriate actions of heiress strumpet Paris Hilton will always follow her. Of course this Main Line Mama's behavior that got her into trouble is similar to that of another woman who can't keep her hands to herself, Naomi Campbell....

Socialite sentenced in attack on nanny
Susan Tabas Tepper was said to have used carrots and a phone as weapons. She got a year's probation.
By Kathy Boccella
Inquirer Staff Writer

Maybe now she won't hurl vegetables at the help anymore.

The Villanova heiress accused of roughing up her housekeeper with a bag of carrots, among other things, was sentenced to one-year probation plus $2,800 in fines, mandatory anger-management classes and community service yesterday on charges of criminal mischief and harassment.

At Montgomery County court, a smiling, deeply tanned Susan Tabas Tepper, 44, never made eye contact with Xiomara Salinas, the Venezuelan native who accused her of behaving very badly last spring at Tepper's Eagle Farm estate.

Tepper entered what is known as an Alford plea. While not conceding guilt, she acknowledged that there was sufficient evidence to lead to her conviction if the case were tried.

....Tepper declined to comment as she left the courtroom and disappeared into the nearby Adult Probation office.

...."She abused everybody" who worked at Eagle Farm, said Salinas, who has found a new job as a nanny. "They were afraid. Me, I'm not afraid."

Salinas' husband Mark, also of Venezuela, said Tepper got what she deserved.

"She thinks with all that money she can push people around," he said. "It proves that in America, whether rich or poor, the law is for everybody."