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Kyle Hinkle admitted shaking his infant son, who was hospitalized with brain bleeding in 2012

Hinkle later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, child endangerment and simple assault

The child died in 2024, and investigators allege his death resulted from the original injuries

More than a decade after a Pennsylvania infant was hospitalized with severe head trauma — and lived until his 2024 death — his father is now charged with murder.

Kyle Hinkle, 38, of Allentown, was charged with third-degree murder after investigators reviewed an autopsy that tied his 11-year-old son’s 2024 death to injuries the child suffered as a 3-month-old in 2012, according to a news release from the Bensalem Township Police Department.

Police said the boy was born in July 2012 and was living

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