An Albrightsville woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Cpl. Jacob Dinkelacker of the Kidder Township Police Department in the case against Tina Kozak:

At around 7:27 p.m. May 26, Dinkelacker was dispatched to the area of Stony Brook Drive for a report of a juvenile female walking down the street bleeding from her wrist.

At around 7:35 p.m., Dinkelacker located the female at Stony Brook Drive, at which time he observed a large laceration on her left wrist.

The laceration was bandaged but still visibly bleeding at that time, and Dinkelacker was informed that the injury was self-inflicted.

At that moment, the victim was hyperventilating and crying, so Dinkelacker immediately requested the dispatch of EMS to his location.

While awaiting, the victim explained that she resides with her grandparents and two cousins.

The victim’s grandmother was later identified as Kozak, 58. Earlier in the day, the victim received permission to have her boyfriend visit her.

The victim told Dinkelacker that one of the house rules is that she is not permitted to enter her bedroom with her boyfriend, and admitted to violating that rule.

The victim was in her bedroom with her boyfriend but kept the door ajar, and was subsequently caught by Kozak and informed that the boyfriend had to depart from the residence.

She then provided the boyfriend with a ride on a golf cart to the front gate of the development, where he walked for his ride home.

Afterward, the victim returned home and was on the phone with her biological mother when Kozak attempted to take her phone as punishment.

At this time, the victim stated she noticed that Kozak was highly intoxicated, which led to a physical altercation over the phone.

The victim attempted to escape, but Kozak grabbed her by the shirt and threw her, which caused the victim to hit her head on the kitchen counter, resulting in the loss of control of her phone and a bruise to her head.

After Kozak took the victim’s phone and the punishment had been dealt, the victim went to her room ending the contact with Kozak.

Shortly after the victim entered the room, Kozak entered creating a new and separate contact as she continued to yell at her, grabbed her by the hair, and dragged her out of her room into the hallway, where Kozak began hitting her.

At this point, the victim’s cousins intervened and had to physically remove Kozak off the victim. Kozak then solicited to commit self harm by saying she would be better off dead, knowing that the victim suffered from past family trauma and past suicide attempts.

The victim threatened to harm herself, but Kozak did not react. The victim stated that the wound was bleeding heavily, so her cousin attempted to provide her with a shirt to compress the wound and stop the bleeding.

This is when Kozak aided in the attempted harming of the victim by taking the shirt from the victim and instructed the other girls to “let her bleed out.”

Without her phone, the victim was unable to call for any help, so she ran out of the residence injured and upset.

Kozak then proceeded to go take a nap without making any attempt to seek help for the victim or report the incident.

Dinkelacker then requested his backup, officer Joshua Silfee, to respond to the home and attempt to make contact with Kozak and obtain her version of events.

Shortly after contacting Kozak, Silfee advised that he received a similar account of the events that took place, and Dinkelacker was advised that Kozak was the only adult home with the children that day, was clearly just woken up, and visibly intoxicated. Silfee further advised Kozak had a hard time standing unassisted while at the door, and had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her mouth.

Due to the nature of the report, Dinkelacker placed the victim into protective police custody.

When EMS arrived on scene, Dinkelacker informed them of the situation and requested that they transport the victim to St. Luke’s Carbon Campus for treatment of her wrist and a 302 warrant that Dinkelacker would be petitioning for upon arrival.

Dinkelacker advised Silfee to take Kozak into custody and transport her to the police station to obtain a post-Miranda statement as soon as he was able to get a sober adult on scene to watch the other children.

Two child line reports were filed, including one by Dinkelacker and the other by an LPN at the hospital. The LPN stated in her report that the victim showed visible scratches to her arms, a mark to her head, and the self-inflicted cut to her wrist.

Kozak later told Silfee “I didn’t think she’d actually do it.”

When conducting an investigation a similar incident was found to have been reported to the agency which makes reference to a past police incident that occurred on Oct. 22 at Kozak’s residence in which responding officers reported a similar account.

One of the other juvenile females whom reside within the residence broke the same rule and had a boy in her room.

Reports of firearms used to threaten the life’s of juveniles were made but due to contradictory statements and lack of physical evidence, criminal charges were never pursued.

The report also references another child line report where a reporting party states that both grandparents are alcoholics and physically abuse the children.

Kozak faces charges of causing or aiding suicide, endangering welfare of children, simple assault, and harassment.

She is currently incarcerated in the Monroe County Prison in lieu of $50,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing July 3 before District Judge Daniel Kresge of Bartonsville.