Police charged a Greensburg woman with assault and endangering the welfare of a child after her son was injured at her home.
Kristen M. Sinclair, 38, was released on $5,000 unsecured bond pending a preliminary hearing Feb. 18.
Patrolman Regina McAtee reported that the boy’s injury was discovered after police were twice dispatched to Sinclair’s apartment on Lane Way for separate domestic disturbances involving Sinclair and her boyfriend on Feb. 4.
While police officers were speaking to Sinclair’s three children, who were waiting outside the apartment, the boy told officers that Sinclair injured him after police departed a previous domestic disturbance call involving the couple at the apartment Jan. 29, McAtee said in court documents.
The boy told police that after officers left the home that day, “(Sinclair) was still mad and slammed a door, smashing his hand,” McAtee said.
“(The boy) showed me his hand and it was still swollen on the top and he stated that it hurt really bad to make a fist. He said it hurt so bad last week, he couldn’t even apply deodorant,” McAtee wrote in court documents.
McAtee said she asked the boy whether (Sinclair) had sought medical attention for him after the injury.
“(The boy) stated no and said Sinclair told him, ‘Well, your hand shouldn’t have been there’,” McAtee wrote in court documents.
The other two children confirmed the boy’s statement to police, according to court records.
Officers took the children to the police station and called an ambulance to check the boy’s hand. Ambulance personnel took him to Excela Health Westmoreland hospital in Greensburg for treatment.
Police contacted relatives to pick up the children. They told police the next day that the boy suffered a broken hand in the Jan. 29 incident, McAtee said.
Sinclair could not be reached for comment. She did not have an attorney listed in court documents.
