Couple accused of neglecting child in Pennsylvania
MOUNTAIN TOP, Pennsylvania (WNEP) Two people are locked up for allegedly starving a 6-year-old boy, whom police say weighed just 20 pounds.
Natalie Shaffer, 26, and Zachary Vincent, 30, of Mountain Top, are both charged with aggravated assault and endangerment.
In January of last year, police were notified by the Greater Nanticoke Elementary Center that the child weighed just 20 pounds. Officers say it appeared the child was being starved and that Shaffer, the boy’s mother, had failed to take the boy to more than 50 doctor’s appointments.
The boy spent a month in the hospital and is now in foster care in Luzerne County.
Authorities said the 6-year-old boy appeared to be starving. He weighed only 20 pounds. Author: Chelsea Strub, WNEP Web Staff Published: 11:24 AM EST February 5, 2021 Updated: 6:06 PM EST February 5, 2021
MOUNTAIN TOP, Pa. Two people are locked up for allegedly starving a 6-year-old boy, whom police say weighed just 20 pounds.
Natalie Shaffer, 26, and Zachary Vincent, 30, of Mountain Top, are both charged with aggravated assault and endangerment.
This started in January of 2020 when school staff was met with a 20-pound 6-year-old boy at the beginning of the school year.
Teachers at the Greater Nanticoke Elementary Center realized there was an issue when the boy came to school severely malnourished. The child s guardians, the birth mother and her boyfriend Natalie Shaffer and Zachary Vincent of Mountain Top are both charged with aggravated assault and endangerment.