Steven Brownlee faces aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person, and other charges.<\/p>\n
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A man faces charges after allegedly assaulting an infant in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n
According to the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office, Steven Brownlee, of Old Forge, called 911 on August 28 to report that the 5-month-old child was unresponsive.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the baby was taken to the hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. Doctors later determined the child’s injuries, which included head trauma and a traumatic brain injury, were caused by physical abuse.<\/p>\n
Brownlee was the child’s sole caregiver when the injuries occurred, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
The D.A.’s office says Brownlee then fled to Tupelo, Mississippi, following the alleged assault.<\/p>\n
He was taken into custody on September 9 and will remain locked up pending extradition to Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n
Brownlee faces aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person, and other charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Brownlee faces aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person, and other charges. LACKAWANNA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-283190","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\/283190","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=283190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}