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Y’ville man charged with endangering 2-year-old

A Youngsville man was charged with child endangerment and assault Friday.

Michael Ryan Andrzejeski, 28, was the subject of a Forest-Warren Children and Youth investigation earlier this year, according to Youngsville Chief of Police Todd Mineweaser.

CYS contacted police to report suspected abuse that occurred between April 16 and May 18 of this year.

According to police, Andrzejeski’s two-year-old daughter was taken to Warren General Hospital on May 18 by her grandparents, who have custody of the child due to prior abuse allegations. At the hospital, the child was treated for injuries that doctors there called “nonaccidental,” according to police. The bruising, doctors told police, was “not consistent with the father’s story he gave to them,” police said. That story, which police said Andrzejeski told them during the investigation, was that he would “knuckle her up when she would not do what he wanted. He would lose his cool and get angry with her. He would also grab her by her arms, causing bruises.”

Andrzejeski admitted to police, according to Mineweaser, “to losing his cool with his daughter and punching her in the head and face area.” Andrzejeski “has also locked his daughter in her bedroom for long periods of time for punishment, police said. While locked in her room she has asked to go potty but he refused to open the door,” causing the child to soil her bed, police said. Andrzejeski “would also force his two-year-old daughter to eat foods she did not want to eat by forcing them into her mouth and holding her nose and mouth shut,” according to the affidavit of probable cause. “He would also force clothes on her when she would not get dressed fast enough.” All of this was learned during the course of Mineweaser’s investigation, according to the affidavit.

Andrzejeski “states he has anxiety, PTSD, and Asperger’s Syndrome,” according to the affidavit.

Andrzejeski was charged Friday with felony child endangerment and simple assault, a misdemeanor. He was arraigned before District Justice Todd Woodin and committed to the Warren County Jail on $100,000 bail.

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