Sep 24, 2015 2 min read

Three people were charged last week by state police with endangering the welfare of a child and possession of drug paraphernalia after they reportedly left a 2-year-old child alone at a Canton Township apartment where there were syringes lying on a table.

Charges were filed Friday at the office of District Judge David Mark against Jonathan Wayne Livingood, 22, and Brittany E. Mancini, 20, both of 50 Bel Air Drive, Apt. K, Belvedere Acres, Canton, and Anthony M. Sutterfield, 18, of 107 Wayne St., Claysville.

State police were called Aug. 24 to the apartment shared by Livingood and Mancini for a report of an abandoned child and the possibility that a person was stabbed. When the trooper arrived, he saw the door to the apartment was wide open. The trooper entered the apartment since there was a potential stabbing victim. Police saw no signs of a struggle.

A resident of a neighboring apartment told police that she had the toddler. She said the child had been crying and there was no one home in the apartment. The child’s diaper also was soiled.

The trooper could see three syringes on a coffee table in the living room of the apartment and felt the toddler would have had access to those. He also found a bookbag containing four more syringes and 30 empty stamp bags.

The three adults returned to the apartment. Livingood told the trooper the syringes on the table were his but all three reportedly denied knowing who owned the bookbag.

Livingood and Mancini reportedly left the 2-year-old in the care of Sutterfield, who in turn left the apartment. Sutterfield reportedly admitted he was never stabbed and lied when he told the other two he had been, police said.

The three are scheduled for preliminary hearings Oct. 28 before Mark.