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Donald Kiper, 54, and Nicole Engler-Harper, 41, both of Williamsport, are accused of horrific abuse of two children.

According to court papers, Kiper and Engler-Harper abused two children -- Kiper's 5-year-old son and the couple's 3-year-old son.

According to court papers, the 5-year-old was often locked in an empty bedroom with just a filthy mattress and a training potty. Investigators say the carpet was covered in urine; a case worker's feet were even sticking to it.

The 3-year-old was found in a cluttered bedroom with a padlock on the door.said chief county detective William Weber.

Investigators believe the child may have been locked in the room for days, potentially months.

When confronted, Engler-Harper told a city employee the locks were there because the 5-year-old was destroying the house. Investigators say Kiper knew his 5-year-old was often locked in his room and helped put up the boards in the windows

According to court papers, Engler-Harper would force the 5-year-old to clean up if he urinated on his bedroom floor. On one occasion, the 5-year-old defecated on the floor, and investigators say Engler-Harper forced the child to eat his own feces.
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Padlocked. child. alone. in. a. room.
What the fresh hell are people thinking when they do this shit?
Seriously, there is never a valid reason to lock a small child alone in a room, ever.
It irresponsible, dangerous AF, and a Goddamn fire hazard/death waiting to happen.
Lock your outside doors with high latches so little ones can't wander outside unsupervised, but this is just throwing a child into a fucking dungeon without necessary sanitary facilities, food or water.

Neither of them have teeth.

That makes it easier for the impalement poles as the points exit their throats, pierce their lower jaws and make the final exit through their mouths. :vamp:
 
Aug 02, 2019
A Williamsport man who padlocked his then 5-year-old son in a room and boarded the windows so no light could get in has been sentenced to county prison but made eligible for work release.
Lycoming County Judge Marc F. Lovecchio said Friday when imposing a sentence of 6 to 23½ months that animals in zoos are treated better than Donald D. Kiper Jr. and his wife treated their children.

The endangering the welfare of children charge to which Kiper pleaded guilty in May dealt with a son from a previous relationship.

Lovecchio found much of what happened to the boy occurred when Kiper was absent, and said that when he was present, he was subservient to his wife.

County Children and Youth Services removed both boys the same day. As the older one was being driving away, he began fist pumping in the air and told a caseworker he never wanted to see Engler-Harper again.

When interviewed later he claimed his stepmother “used to hit him and make him eat his own poop.”

The mattress and rug in the older boy’s room were soaked with urine. He had not seen a doctor in three years and he had missed a number of immunizations.

Kiper contended he locked the boy in the room and boarded the windows to prevent him from destroying the house and jumping out a window.

The charges against the couple include allegations of abuse involving the younger boy, also.

The natural parents of both have relinquished their parental rights and the boys are doing well in a new environment, Lovecchio said.

County Judge Eric R. Linhardt in a January order terminating the parental rights described Engler-Harper’s parenting as “medieval” and her treatment of the 5-year-old as “abominable.”


“Callousness” was his description of the boy’s inability to leave his room at night and snuggle with his parents if he became fearful.

The younger boy, according to the charges, was behind in his immunizations, had missed numerous medical appointments, was hospitalized for dehydration and had to be shown how to use a “sippy cup.”

Besides the prison sentence, Lovecchio ordered Kiper to perform 75 hours of community service and submit to a mental health assessment.
Feb 05, 2020
A one-day trial for a Williamsport woman accused of locking her boyfriend’s young son in a “bare” room at night for about five months ended with a deadlocked jury.

Jurors in Lycoming County had deliberated a little more than an hour Wednesday before reporting one of them was feeling ill and they were deadlocked on endangering the welfare charges against Nicole Engler-Harper, 42.

Judge Nancy L. Butts chose to declare a mistrial instead of allowing an alternate juror who had been kept in the courtroom but not involved in the deliberations to replace the one that was not feeling well.

Assistant District Attorney Joseph C. Ruby said a decision has not been made whether to retry Engler-Harper.


During the trial, she admitted locking her boyfriend’s son Malachi and their son Dakota in their bedrooms but claimed she did so for love and their safety.

She explained razor blades taken from a bathroom and nails had been found in Malachi’s room.

Malachi and Dakota were 5 and 2, respectively, when removed from the Washington Boulevard home on Sept. 27, 2017, and placed in foster care.

Donald D. Kiper Jr., the father of both children, last August pleaded guilty to an endangering the welfare of children charge and was sentenced to 6 to 23½ months in county prison.


He has been released from prison and testified about the locks, saying that “one day I came home from work and they were on.”

Engler-Harper explained they were installed after Malachi on April 6, 2017, fled the house when she went upstairs for his brother.

The explanation for the windows in his second-floor bedroom being boarded up was one day Malachi was found partially hanging out one of them.

All that was in Malachi’s room was a soiled mattress and blanket, a pillow and training potty in a corner, according to testimony.

The reason there were no toys is that Malachi would use them to put holes in the walls, Engler-Harper said. She also claimed he would urinate on the floor.

A bunk bed had been removed from the room because he kept jumping off the top, she said.

She described Malachi has been hard to handle but that she would lock him in his room for brief times during the day only after other disciplinary efforts failed.

“I tried everything for a month but things did not work,” Engler-Harper said.

Under cross-examination, she said the boys got a bath every three or four days but claimed she cleaned them up daily.

Kara Smith, the foster mother with whom the boys were placed after they were removed from the home, testified both were dirty, smelled of urine and their clothes did not fit.

Malachi was inquisitive but could not write his name and Dakota was non-verbal, she said.
 
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Williamsport woman has been sentenced to 2 to 4 years in state prison.

Nicole R. Engler-Harper, 43, was sentenced on charges of endangering the welfare of children and unlawful restraint on which she had been found guilty in November.

Edward Frame, a Children and Youth assessment case worker, asked Tira not to show leniency for Engler-Harper because of the way she treated 5-year-old Malachi and her son Dakota, then 2.
Speaking more as a father he said Engler-Harper did not deserve to be called a mother for the way she treated the two, both of whom have since been adopted.

A jury found she kept her then boyfriend’s 5-year-old son locked in a bare bedroom at night over a five-month period in 2017 and neglected her own son, then 2.
Malachi had no one to talk or play with or comfort him if he had a nightmare, Frame said. “She hated him,” he said.
The boys’ father, Donald D. Kiper Jr., pleaded guilty in August 2019 to an endangering the welfare of children charge and was sentenced to 6 to 23½ months in the county prison. He has been released from jail and was present for the sentencing.

Judge Marc F. Lovecchio when he sentenced Kiper said that animals in zoos are treated better than the young boys were.

Kiper accepted responsibility while Engler-Harper never has, Frame told Tira. He was less culpable than her, Assistant District Attorney K. Michael Sullivan said.
Malachi was locked in a room at night with only a urine-stained mattress, blanket and a training potty, he said.

A Williamsport codes officer who discovered the conditions testified at trial that dry wall covered the windows, the ceiling light did not have a shade and there were no toys in the room.

Engler-Harper remained silent at the sentencing but at her trial she testified she was trying to protect Malachi.

Tira said he heard what she said but was not sure from what she was trying to protect him.

She had testified the boy had behavior issues, left the home once, put holes in and scraped paint off walls, tried to crawl out a second-floor window, would take razors from the bathroom and hoarded nails.
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