On the morning of July 9, Teanna Elizabeth Brennan called a caseworker and told her that she could not handle her 2-year-old son whom she found “suffocating” his younger sister, according to a city police affidavit. The 22-year-old mother told the caseworker that she “‘ran into the room, ripped the boy off (his sister), threw him on the floor and kicked him in the stomach,'” the court document stated. “Wait, you kicked him in the stomach,” the caseworker asked in disbelief. “Yes, I probably went overboard, don’t know. I can’t handle him,” Brennan replied, it was alleged in the court document.

The caseworker told the mother to take the children to UPMC Williamsport to be evaluated, police said. At the hospital, the son was “found to have bruising to different parts of his body, including his stomach,” police said that the injuries were allegedly inflicted by Brennan at her home at 637 Second St., Williamsport.

Brennan was recently arraigned before District Judge Denise Dieter on a felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child and simple assault, a misdemeanor. Initially jailed in lieu of $150,000 bail, Brennan has since been released and has waived her preliminary hearing.

In another criminal matter, Brennan has also waived her hearing on city police charges of felony access device fraud and theft for allegedly using another woman’s debit card numerous times illegally to purchase nearly $1,200 worth of merchandise between the summers of 2023 and last year. She is free on $15,000 bail in this case.