{"id":114715,"date":"2026-02-15T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114715\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:52:08","slug":"part-of-gods-plan-pennsylvania-father-charged-after-stabbing-infant-son-throwing-him-in-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114715\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Part of god\u2019s plan\u2019: Pennsylvania father charged after stabbing infant son, throwing him in snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/128387306.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Part of god\u2019s plan\u2019: Pennsylvania father charged after stabbing infant son, throwing him in snow\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> A 44-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with attempted homicide and multiple assault-related offences after allegedly stabbing his three-month-old son and throwing the infant into the snow outside their apartment complex in Coatesville, authorities said.Police were called to the Millview Apartments on Smithbridge Drive in Coatesville around 11:30 am on February 12 following reports of a stabbing.According to investigators, Michael Phillips was in a bedroom with his wife and their infant son when he began making disturbing remarks about having to \u201csacrifice the baby.\u201dMoments later, Phillips allegedly approached the child and stabbed him in the abdomen.The baby\u2019s mother fled the apartment with the infant and her nine-year-old son. Investigators said Phillips followed them outside, grabbed the baby from her arms and threw him into the snow.The mother then shielded the infant with her body as her older son ran to a neighbour\u2019s home for help.Speaking to NBC 10 Philadelphia, neighbour Jim Gemmell said the boy came to his doorstep crying, \u201cHe\u2019s going to kill my baby. He\u2019s going to kill my baby.\u201d Gemmell told NBCPhiladelphia that officers had to subdue Phillips, who was resisting arrest.Responding officers recovered a kitchen knife with blood on the blade from inside the apartment.The infant, who suffered a deep stab wound to the abdomen, was first taken to Paoli Hospital for emergency surgery and later flown to the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is currently listed in critical but stable condition.According to the criminal complaint, Phillips allegedly told officers, \u201cThis was all part of God\u2019s plan\u201d and \u201cI did it God, I did it.\u201dPhillips faces charges including attempted homicide, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. He is being held without bail at Chester County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with attempted homicide and multiple assault-related offences after allegedly stabbing his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[443,54638,54636,54637,28,54635,30,29],"class_list":["post-114715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-attempted-homicide","tag-coatesville-stabbing-incident","tag-infant-son-stabbing","tag-michael-phillips-charged","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-father-charged","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114715","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=114715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}