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A Johnstown man who served a jail term for fatally running down a 15-year-old girl in 2006 was charged Thursday with endangering the welfare of children.
City police said Shannon Dykeman, 38, of the 200 block of Charles Street, left his son at the emergency room at Memorial Medical Center.
In a court document, the boy said that his father, brother and a friend brought him to the hospital because they thought he had pinkeye.
The boy told police that Dykeman said he was going to fix his phone and left.
“When Shannon left he had their other little boy on the back of his pedal bike without a shirt on,” a hospital security officer told police, according to a court document.
When police arrived at his home, Dykeman had slurred speech, glassy eyes and could not remember questions he was being asked, authorities said.
Dykeman was arraigned by on-call District Judge Mary Ann Zanghi of Vinco on misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of children and disorderly conduct.
He was sent to the Cambria County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $10,000 bond.
A family member offered to care for the children. Police did not specify their ages.
Dykeman has a noted criminal history.
He was sentenced on March 27, 2009, to serve three to 23 months in Cambria County Prison after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter.
Authorities said that Dykeman was driving a van along Franklin Street near Roxbury Park at 7 a.m. Jan. 31, 2006, when he struck 15-year-old Kyna Sokol, who was crossing the street to get to a bus.
Dykeman also served a year of probation in 2010 in connection with a prescription drug fraud case in Richland Township.
Most recently, on July 24, Dykeman was placed on probation for 23 months in Cambria County court stemming from a guilty plea to a criminal trespass charge. He also was ordered to pay $1,983 in costs and fines.
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