Man 'provoked' into punching 3-month-old who suffered skull fracture during fight with girlfriend over cellphone: Police

A 46-year-old antheral successful Pennsylvania is accused of astir beating his girlfriend's infant girl to death, allegedly punching the 3-month-old successful the caput during a convulsive early-morning statement implicit a cellphone that near the kid with a fractured skull and intracranial bleeding.

Luis Reyes-Pagan was taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault, elemental assault, and endangering the payment of children successful transportation with the Feb. 15 incident, tribunal records show. Kimberlyn Videa-Dubon, the victim's 30-year-old mother, is facing the aforesaid charges arsenic Reyes-Pagan, arsenic good arsenic an further number of harassment for her relation successful the incident.

Officers with the Lancaster City Bureau of Police responded to a location connected Union Street astatine astir 3:34 a.m. regarding a study of a home unit incidental involving a child, according to a report from Lancaster Online.

Upon arriving astatine the address, officers learned that an babe had suffered a terrible caput wounded arsenic a effect of an altercation allegedly involving Reyes-Pagan and Videa-Dubon. Emergency aesculapian unit transported the babe to Lancaster General Hospital for treatment. Due to the severity of the child's condition, she was aboriginal transferred to Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Court documents authorities the kid suffered a skull fracture and intracranial bleeding, the Daily Voice reported.

Investigators accidental the unit erupted during an statement implicit Reyes-Pagan's cellphone, section NBC affiliate WGAL reported.

According to charging documents, Reyes-Pagan told constabulary that Videa-Dubon struck him aggregate times portion she was holding the infant. He claimed helium responded by swinging his fist toward her, but accidentally deed the babe successful the head. He admitted his behaviour caused the child's injuries, describing his actions arsenic "reckless but provoked," WGAL reported.

Authorities allege the babe was injured aggregate times during the incident.

The Daily Voice reported that Videa-Dubon threw the babe onto a furniture during the altercation, perchance causing the skull fracture. She is besides accused of striking different idiosyncratic aggregate times and hitting a 3rd idiosyncratic successful the look erstwhile they attempted to intervene.

Court records reportedly bespeak that different kid was wrong the location astatine the clip of the incident, though authorities person not said who that kid is oregon wherever they are now.

The defendants were arraigned and released connected $50,000 unsecured bail. They are some presently scheduled to look successful tribunal again for their preliminary hearings connected April 27.