{"id":166598,"date":"2026-04-15T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166598\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:31:05","slug":"pittston-twp-man-pleads-guilty-for-injuring-infant-during-diaper-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166598\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston Twp. man pleads guilty for injuring infant during diaper change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A Pittston Township man accused of injuring a then 3-week-old girl during a diaper change pled guilty to a felony assault charge in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Alexander Amalbert, 25, address listed as Oak Street, pled guilty to aggravated assault before Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. this week. Prosecutors withdrew charges of simple assault, reckless endangerment and child endangerment against Amalbert.<\/p>\n<p>Pittston Township police in court records say Amalbert injured the infant during a diaper change on July 28, 2025. Amalbert told police, court records say, he was tired and had a bad day and heard the infant\u2019s leg snap when he pushed the infant\u2019s legs during the diaper change and while burping the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Court records say the infant suffered a broken left leg, broken ribs and had bruises on her back and groin area. The baby was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Dickson City and airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital \u2013 Cedar Crest in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>Amalbert remains free on $25,000 bail and is scheduled to be sentenced June 1.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; WILKES-BARRE \u2014 A Pittston Township man accused of injuring a then 3-week-old girl during a diaper change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-166598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166598","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=166598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}