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Jim Thorpe man pleads guilty to child endangering charge

A Carbon County man admitted to a child endangering charge in the county court on Tuesday.

Travis J. Litts, 31, of Jim Thorpe, and formerly of Nesquehoning, entered guilty pleas in two pending cases including one count of endangering the welfare of a child.The endangering incident occurred on Oct. 27, 2015, when Nesquehoning police were called to the area ofEast Railroad Street, where neighbors found a then 1½-year-old boy wandering along in the street.The neighbors recognized the boy as a resident who lived on that street.The neighbor took the boy to the home and knocked on the door. Litts opened it, then slammed it shut.As the neighbor was leaving, Litts came out of the home and said the boy was his son.Litts said he was high on drugs at the time of the incident.Litts also pleaded to one count of harassment, as a summary offense, for an incident on Nov. 18, 2015, at the Nesquehoning address where he was involved in an altercation with his live-in girlfriend.Litts is currently an inmate in the Lehigh County prison facing a probation/parole revocation proceeding. He also has a pending retail theft charge in Carbon.Judge Joseph J. Matika accepted the pleas and sentenced Litts to serve six to 18 months in prison on the endangering charge and pay a fine of $150 on the harassment count.He was also ordered to render 50 hours of community service when paroled, get a drug and alcohol evaluation, zero tolerance for drug and alcohol use, pay court costs of about $1,000, pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and attend and successfully complete a parenting course.He was given credit for 33 days spent in prison on the charge.