Man kicked 3-year-old daughter with steel-toed boots and abused her into brain damage while his girlfriend let it happen: Authorities

A pistillate successful Pennsylvania has learned her destiny for not reporting her boyfriend's maltreatment of his 3-year-old girl oregon getting the kid aesculapian help.

Alyssa Kithcart, 26, was sentenced to 3 months successful situation followed by 3 years of probation aft pleading guilty to endangering the payment of a child, Bradford County tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show. Other charges of endangering the payment of a kid and recklessly endangering different idiosyncratic were dismissed.

The suspect is successful the Bradford County Correctional Facility on with her boyfriend, 27-year-old Dalton Sweat, whose lawsuit has yet to conclude. He faces charges including aggravated battle and endangering the payment of a child.

To authorities, the lawsuit began connected May 20, 2025, erstwhile paramedics and officers with the Athens Police Department were called to a location connected the 100 artifact of East Frederick Street owed to a study of a toddler hitting her head. Athens is located successful the northbound of Pennsylvania connected the borderline with New York.

First responders recovered the kid connected the level of the location unconscious but breathing, with her eyes hardly open, Athens Police Chief Carla Dieg told NorthcentralPA.com. The miss was "extremely thin" and it was "clearly disposable that she had urinated and defecated successful her diaper."

Authorities transferred the kid to a hospital, and she was aboriginal airlifted to a abstracted aesculapian center.

Sweat allegedly told constabulary that helium was headed to enactment erstwhile Kithcart called and said his girl had fallen. Kithcart past told officers that the miss had climbed connected a overgarment rack and fallen.

The doctors treating the child, however, reported that the girl's injuries did not way with a autumn specified arsenic the 1 described. She had a breached collarbone, bruises crossed her body, and showed signs of utmost malnourishment.

Investigators continued prodding the mates and seemingly got some of them to admit much than they did initially. Kithcart reportedly conceded that Sweat was "too harsh" with his punishments and said she "should person reported him sooner."

Family members described aggregate past instances of abuse, including Sweat allegedly kicking the miss with steel-toed boots and causing her to deed a partition and endure a bloody nose, per the section outlet. Other kids successful the location reportedly added that Sweat deed her with a loop and would support her successful "time-out" for hours.

Sweat is said to person tried to spot the blasted connected Kithcart, saying helium was "afraid of Kithcart's family" earlier aboriginal admitting that helium was "harsher than helium had described earlier."

Medical unit said that the 3-year-old volition ne'er afloat retrieve owed to injuries to her brain.

Sweat has a pretrial league scheduled successful his lawsuit for June 23.