BENSALEM, PA \u2014 A home health nurse has been arrested on felony child endangerment charges after allegedly abusing a medically fragile child under her care.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police received a ChildLine report regarding possible abuse at a residence on Locust Avenue.<\/p>\n
The report indicated that a medically fragile child who receives in-home care from a nursing service may have been harmed by a caregiver.<\/p>\n
According to the investigation, the child\u2019s mother reviewed surveillance video from inside the home and observed the assigned night nurse, identified as Cindy Dresser, physically abusing the child.<\/p>\n
The child was transported to the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia for evaluation and treatment.<\/p>\n
Bensalem detectives obtained and reviewed multiple video recordings which further captured the abuse.<\/p>\n
Detectives observed Dresser throwing the child within the crib, striking the child and sleeping during her shift.<\/p>\n
In one particularly concerning incident, Dresser removed the child\u2019s tracheostomy tube and failed to promptly reinsert it, causing the child to struggle to breathe.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police obtained an arrest warrant charging Dresser with endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n
Dresser was entered into the National Crime Information Center database on March 25.<\/p>\n
Later that same day, officers from the Warwick Township Police Department had contact with Dresser and arrested her on the Bensalem warrant.<\/p>\n
She was subsequently turned over to Bensalem Police.<\/p>\n
Dresser was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Kevin Wagner and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility after bail was set at $2,000,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, PA \u2014 A home health nurse has been arrested on felony child endangerment charges after allegedly abusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-155219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155219","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=155219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}