{"id":43790,"date":"2025-11-25T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43790\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:14:08","slug":"kyle-hinkle-charged-with-murder-in-his-infant-sons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43790\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Hinkle charged with murder in his infant son’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Bensalem resident who spent two years in state prison for abusing his infant son <\/a>is now charged with the boy\u2019s murder after police say complications from the injuries he inflicted more than a decade ago caused the boy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Kyle Hinkle, 38, who now lives in Allentown, was charged Monday with third-degree murder in the death of his son, Leonardo, who was 11 when he died in August 2024.<\/p>\n

After the child\u2019s death was ruled a homicide earlier this year, investigators in Bucks County<\/a> spent months gathering medical records and other evidence to link it to the injuries he received as an infant.<\/p>\n

Hinkle remained in custody, in lieu of 10% of $2 million bail. There was no indication he had hired an attorney.<\/p>\n

Investigators first learned of the abuse in October 2012, when the boy was taken to Jefferson Torresdale<\/a> Hospital with severe head injuries, according to the affidavit of probable cause for Hinkle\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

Doctors there determined the injuries had been intentionally inflicted to the then-3-month-old, and a CAT scan revealed signs of similar, older injuries that were still healing, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n

The boy\u2019s grandmother told detectives that on an earlier occasion, she had seen bruises on the child\u2019s arm that matched a necklace Hinkle used to wear, indicating he may have struck the boy with it.<\/p>\n

In an interview with detectives, Hinkle admitted he shook the baby vigorously<\/a> without supporting his head out of frustration because he would not stop crying.<\/p>\n

The injuries left the child wheelchair-bound, nonverbal, and reliant on a feeding tube, according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n

Hinkle pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child in 2013. He served two years in state prison, followed by three years of probation, court records show.<\/p>\n

In the intervening years, the boy and his mother moved to Oliver, Fayette County, southeast of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

When the child died in 2024, the Fayette County coroner ruled his death a homicide, saying, in a statement, that complications from living with Shaken Baby Syndrome directly led to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Bensalem resident who spent two years in state prison for abusing his infant son is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,26072],"class_list":["post-43790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-kyle-hinkle-bensalem-child-abuse-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43790","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=43790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}