{"id":574173,"date":"2026-04-09T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:19:08","slug":"man-accused-of-beating-breaking-bones-of-a-pair-of-6-week-old-babies-due-to-lack-of-sleep-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574173\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of beating, breaking bones of a pair of 6-week-old babies due to lack of sleep, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (Gray News) &#8211; A man is charged after allegedly severely beating two 6-week-old babies, leaving them with broken bones and other injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dillon McCarraher, 23, is charged with four counts of aggravated assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of children and two counts of simple assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCarraher allegedly assaulted the babies at his home between August and September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both children were found to have numerous injuries including multiple broken bones, bleeding in their eyes and bruises. A doctor told police the injuries were consistent with physical child abuse and that the babies could not have caused the injuries themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCarraher told police during an interview that he may have injured both children out of frustration over a lack of sleep, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCarraher allegedly admitted to breaking one of the babies\u2019 arms when he was upset and told investigators he did not know how fragile the child was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCarraher is out on $100,000 unsecured bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (Gray News) &#8211; A man is charged after allegedly severely beating two 6-week-old babies, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,252601,252605,252606,252602,252604,252603,451,3,252607,452,453],"class_list":["post-574173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dillon-mccarraher","tag-dillon-mccarraher-arrested","tag-dillon-mccarraher-babies","tag-dillon-mccarraher-lancaster-county","tag-dillon-mccarraher-manheim","tag-dillon-mccarraher-pennsylvania","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania-babies-abused","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}