Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Bedford County man will serve four to eight years in prison and seven years on probation for seriously injuring his foster son, a toddler, days after gaining custody.
Anthony Plotts, 40, of Hopewell, was sentenced on Friday after previously pleading no contest to felony counts of aggravated assault of a child and endangering the welfare of a child, regarding a July 2022 incident.
The child was hospitalized on July 31, 2022, with a brain bleed and other serious injuries. Doctors diagnosed the child with injuries sustained in a “violent shaking” incident. Plotts fostered the victim and two other children.
“This case involves some of the most heinous conduct imaginable — abuse of a purely innocent, defenseless, and vulnerable young child,” Attorney General Sunday said. “Despite the defendant’s attempts to avoid accountability by misleading investigators, the truth was uncovered, and he is now held accountable. My commitment to protecting Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable will never waver.”
Plotts’ initial statement to investigators on how the injury occurred was not corroborated by the medical records and evidence.
In a separate case, Plotts was sentenced to four years of concurrent probation regarding two counts each of corruption of minors and furnishing alcohol to minors for providing alcohol to several juveniles at his home in November 2022.
These cases were prosecuted by Acting Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General Evan Lowry.
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