Hearth Chief Allegedly Threw Child Daughter and Fractured Her Cranium: Police

A Pennsylvania fireplace chief has been arrested after allegedly throwing his toddler daughter headfirst as a result of she “wouldn’t cease crying,” in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.

Falls Township Hearth Chief Brian Salt was arrested final Thursday, March 20, and now faces felony prices of aggravated assault of a kid and little one endangerment together with a misdemeanor cost of easy assault, the paperwork state.

Salt, 36, was launched from custody after a member of the family posted a $50,000 bond on the morning of Tuesday, March 25, data reviewed by PEOPLE present.

The Falls Township Hearth Firm introduced Friday morning that Salt “has been suspended indefinitely pending the end result of the authorized proceedings.”

“Throughout this difficult time, our ideas and prayers are with the Salt household,” the Falls Township Hearth Firm stated in a press release. “We perceive the influence this example has on our group, and we’re dedicated to making sure transparency as we transfer ahead. The security and well-being of our group stay our high precedence, and we are going to proceed to assist our firefighters and their households via this difficult time.”

Native NBC 10 first reported Salt’s arrest, which got here after medical doctors on the Kids’s Hospital of Philadelphia grew to become suspicious of the toddler’s accidents and alerted police. In accordance with NBC 10, Salt’s child daughter had a fractured cranium and Salt stated in an interview with detectives that he had “dropped” his daughter after he “misplaced management” of her whereas she was crying.

Falls Township Police Detective Dennis O’Connell informed NBC 10 that “it was divulged throughout that interview that he the truth is had taken the kid from what’s being described as a swing forcefully after which took the kid out after which threw the kid on the bottom as being overly annoyed and little one wouldn’t cease crying and was being very fussy on the time,” the outlet reported.

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PEOPLE has reached out to the Falls Township Police Division for extra data.

Court docket data reviewed by PEOPLE present Salt is scheduled to look in entrance of a Bucks County Justice of the Peace decide for a preliminary listening to on April 2.

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