{"id":111433,"date":"2026-02-11T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111433\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:24:09","slug":"coatesville-father-arrested-after-allegedly-stabbing-infant-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111433\/","title":{"rendered":"Coatesville father arrested after allegedly stabbing infant | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COATESVILLE, Pa. &#8211; A Chester County father is in custody and an infant is fighting for its life after police say the man stabbed the child.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just after 11:30 a.m. today at a home in the 2000 block of Smithbridge Drive in Coatesville.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving officers took the child&#8217;s father, identified as 44-year-old Michael Phillips, into custody for allegedly stabbing the three-month-old in the abdomen and then taking the child outside and tossing it in the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the child is in serious condition and was flown to Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia to undergo emergency surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COATESVILLE, Pa. &#8211; A Chester County father is in custody and an infant is fighting for its life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,734,53215,53216,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-111433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-chester-county","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-coatesville","11":"tag-michael-phillips","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}