{"id":254320,"date":"2026-04-06T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254320\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:13:19","slug":"parents-charged-after-toddler-injured-by-wolf-at-hersheyparks-zooamerica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254320\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents charged after toddler injured by wolf at Hersheypark&#8217;s ZooAmerica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HERSHEY, Pa. &#8212; Two Pennsylvania parents are facing charges after an incident at Hersheypark&#8217;s ZooAmerica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to police, their toddler put his hand into a wolf enclosure over the weekend, and was injured by the wild animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Carrie Sortor, 43, and Stephen Wilson, 61, are each charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say the pair were about 25 to 30 feet away from their 17-month-old at the time of the incident, and appeared to be on their phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to officials, the child squeezed through a small opening in the wooden perimeter fence and reached through the primary fence enclosure, where a wolf grabbed the child&#8217;s hand with its mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Several bystanders then intervened and helped pull the child away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The toddler suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERSHEY, Pa. &#8212; Two Pennsylvania parents are facing charges after an incident at Hersheypark&#8217;s ZooAmerica. According to police,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112787,112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-254320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-112787","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}