Police said a 3-month-old girl was badly hurt during a predawn fight, and both the child’s mother and another adult now face felony assault and child-endangerment charges.
LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster man and the mother of a 3-month-old girl have been charged after police said the baby suffered a skull fracture and bleeding in the brain during an early-morning fight at a city home in February.
The case matters now because prosecutors have turned a domestic violence call into a child-abuse prosecution centered on a very young victim with severe head injuries. Police said Luis Reyes-Pagan, 46, and Kimberlyn Videa-Dubon, 30, each played a role in the violence. Both were charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering the welfare of children, and Videa-Dubon also was charged with harassment. Local reports citing court records said both were released on unsecured bail and are due back in court later this month.
According to police accounts and court records cited by local news outlets, officers were sent to the home at about 3:34 a.m. on Feb. 15 after a report of a domestic violence incident involving a child. When they arrived, investigators said, they found the infant with a serious head injury. Emergency crews took the girl to Lancaster General Hospital, and she later was transferred to Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center because of the severity of her condition. Investigators said the fight began during an argument over Reyes-Pagan’s cellphone. Court documents described Videa-Dubon as holding the baby during part of the dispute and striking Reyes-Pagan multiple times. Reyes-Pagan then told police he swung back toward Videa-Dubon and struck the baby instead. Police said he described his conduct as “reckless but provoked,” a phrase that now sits at the center of the charging documents.
The public record suggests investigators believe the infant was hurt more than once during the disturbance. Reports citing the affidavit said the child suffered a skull fracture and intracranial bleeding, language that points to the seriousness of the injuries even though authorities have not publicly released a full medical update. The same reports said Videa-Dubon is accused of throwing the infant onto a bed during the fight, and investigators believe that act may have caused the fracture. Reyes-Pagan is accused of striking the baby in the head with a closed fist while he was arguing with another person in the home. The affidavit also says Videa-Dubon struck another person multiple times and hit a third person in the face when that person tried to step in. Authorities have not publicly identified those other people, said whether any of them were injured badly enough to need hospital care, or explained the baby’s condition after the transfer to Hershey. Media reports also said another child was inside the home at the time, though police have not publicly identified that child or said where the child is now.
The charges reflect how Pennsylvania law treats serious harm to very young children. Under the state’s aggravated assault statute, an adult can face that charge for attempting to cause or causing bodily injury to a child younger than 6. Pennsylvania’s endangering-the-welfare statute separately covers adults who knowingly violate a duty of care, protection or support to a child. That legal backdrop helps explain why the case moved beyond a simple domestic assault investigation once officers and medical staff saw the baby’s injuries. It also helps explain why both adults face child-endangerment counts even though police say their alleged actions were different. One public account focused on Reyes-Pagan’s statement that he did not mean to hit the infant when he swung his fist. Another focused on the allegation that Videa-Dubon threw the baby onto a bed during the fight. In practical terms, investigators appear to be treating the incident as a series of acts inside one violent episode rather than as a single accidental blow.
The procedural track is becoming clearer even though several facts remain unsettled. Local reports citing court records said Videa-Dubon was arraigned April 2 and released on $50,000 unsecured bail. Law&Crime reported that both defendants were arraigned and released on the same amount of unsecured bail, and Daily Voice said Videa-Dubon’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday, April 27, at 1:30 p.m. before Magisterial District Judge Adam J. Witkonis. A preliminary hearing is not a trial, but it is often the next important step because prosecutors must show enough evidence to send the case on for further proceedings. No public report reviewed for this story identified a defense lawyer speaking on behalf of either defendant, and no plea information was included in those reports. Authorities also have not said whether more charges could follow, whether child-protection agencies took separate action after the arrest, or whether any additional medical findings changed investigators’ view of how the baby was hurt.
The public account remains striking for its narrowness and its violence. The incident began in the quietest part of the night, inside a home, over something as ordinary as a cellphone, according to police. By the time officers arrived, that private argument had become a case involving an infant with major head trauma, multiple adults named in affidavits and a court calendar that now stretches into late April. The strongest direct quote in the case so far has come not from a police chief or prosecutor but from the accused man himself: investigators said Reyes-Pagan told them his actions were “reckless but provoked.” That statement may become important later because it concedes dangerous conduct while also trying to place blame on the chaos of the fight. For now, though, the records point less to motive than to damage. What stands out is the age of the child, the severity of the injuries and the number of separate acts investigators say happened in a matter of minutes.
As of April 13, the case remains pending, no detailed public medical update has been released on the infant, and the next visible milestone is the scheduled April 27 preliminary hearing in Lancaster County court.
Author note: Last updated April 13, 2026.