Theodore Allen Fisher, 33, of 749 W. Fourth St., Williamsport, has been jailed on charges of failing to get medical care for his son, who one doctor said was “the victim of violent physical abuse,” it was alleged in a city police affidavit that was recently made public. In the document, police also allege that Fisher, in the “course of multiple interviews,” obstructed the investigation into the suspected abuse by providing false information in which he provided bogus claims that the child had been treated at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia for burns he had suffered on his hands. “Fisher intentionally provided false information to the county’s Children and Youth Department as well as to law enforcement during this child abuse investigation with the intent to impair (it),” police alleged.

“Old scars on the boy’s hands have not gotten the medical treatment that they need” and is tantamount to “medical neglect,” investigators were told. “There was scarring on the boy’s torso and back with multiple bruises on his body,” an officer wrote in a criminal complaint. The alleged assaults occurred between 2022 and 2024 when the boy was between the ages of 2 to 4, police said. Charged with felony endangering the welfare of a child and obstructing an investigation to child abuse, a misdemeanor, Fisher waived his preliminary hearing Thursday before District Judge Aaron Biichle and remains jailed in lieu of $150,000 bail.