A broken collarbone. A skull fracture on the right side of his head. Bleeding on the brain.
On Aug. 20, 2019, Howard was watching the child at a home in Hanover while drinking, anxious and paranoid about a court date the next day in a DUI case, prosecutors said.
Later, Howard told investigators, he “lost it.” Family members took the infant to Hanover Hospital, where he had to be medevaced to Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
“Your honor, I agree that the defendant has taken responsibility for harming that child,” Kraska said on Tuesday in the York County Judicial Center. “But as you will tell from the images, that child was battered and broken.”