A Nesquehoning man has been charged after his two young children were found walking in the street unsupervised and wearing only diapers.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by patrolman Carl Breiner of the Nesquehoning Borough Police Department in the case against Kristian Fritzinger:

At 10:37 a.m. May 28, Breiner was dispatched to the 200 block of West Mill Street for a report of young children in the street.

The caller reported that the two children were in Mill Street unsupervised and walked across the roadway in front of him with nobody else with them.

Breiner saw a 1-year-old girl wearing a diaper and a shirt standing on the porch of the home with a man.

Police asked the man where the other child was. He said he did not know but said that the father of the children was upstairs sleeping.

Breiner and Chief Sean Smith began looking around the outside of the residence for the second child.

The second child, a 4-year-old boy, was standing on the rear porch of the home, wearing nothing but a soiled diaper.

Both children were taken inside.

The father, Fritzinger, 23, was now awake and said he locked his bedroom door when he went to bed so his kids did not wake him up early in the morning.

Fritzinger said it was the first time he did this, and that his son must have opened the door and gone outside and his sister followed him out.

Children and Youth were notified and also arrived on scene and began an immediate investigation.

The children were removed from the home.

Fritzinger faces charges of endangering the welfare of children, and recklessly endangering another person.

He is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Aug. 19 before District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek of Nesquehoning.