10/14/19
by News Department on 10/14/193 Year Old Critical...
3 year old Arabella Parker, of Northumberland County, remains in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, after state troopers said she was beaten so badly, surgeons were forced to remove a portion of her brain.
State police say Jahrid Burgess of Trevorton admitted to beating the little girl several times over the past few months, most recently on Thursday.
Troopers say the child was rushed to a hospital where she is in critical condition with a brain injury and broken ribs. Burgess is also charged with assaulting his girlfriend, the child’s mother.
He is locked up in the Northumberland County jail in lieu of $200,000 cash bail following a video arraignment Saturday morning before Shamokin District Judge John Gembic.
