(Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to authorities, a mother from Pittsburgh has been recently accused of allegedly throwing her one-year-old daughter to the ground and slapping the father of that child outside the Pittsburgh Municipal Court building yesterday. According to court paperwork, Allegheny County sheriff’s deputies were called to the building on First Avenue around 12:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon. The security guard at the front entrance of the Pittsburgh Municipal Court building who processes visitors there and stated to deputies that a fight and argument occurred between thirty-year-old Shataiya Troutman and the father of her child. Investigators confirm that the witness of this alleged incident heard the male victim tell Troutman he could not take their one-year-old daughter because he needed to be at the court building for fingerprinting. The response from Troutman was that she allegedly threw the one-year-old girl to the ground and slapped the man before exiting the scene of this alleged incident. The one-year-old girl got cleared with no injuries that were apparent to her after medics were called to evaluate her. The man that Troutman allegedly slapped had no injuries that were visible. Court paperwok confirms that Troutman drove away after the alleged incident occurred. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office also stated Troutman also allegedly led a chase between her and multiple agencies that got terminated after the information of the vehicle of Troutman was broadcast out. Troutman was then taken into custody after investigators went to her known address, where her vehicle was in the driveway. Troutman is now in the Allegheny County Jail and has charges of aggravated assault with the victim being under six years old, endangering the welfare of children with one count each, recklessly endangering another person and two counts of simple assault. According to sheriff’s deputies in the criminal complaint, ChildLine also got a notification about “the possibility of additional abuse considering the egregious behavior and indifference displayed by the actor towards her daughter.”