Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh has filed a Notice of Aggravating Factors against a Charleroi woman, who, along with her husband, are facing multiple charges in the death of their fourteen-month-old son, Paxton. Thirty-two-year-old Brooke Whitehead is facing a criminal homicide charge while her 32-year-old husband Ryan faces a charge of endangering the welfare of a child. On Monday, Walsh announced that he would be seeking the death penalty against Brooke Whitehead for the alleged incidents that occurred on October 24, 2023 at their home on Prospect Avenue in Charleroi Borough. Police say they were called to the home for reports of a fourteen-month-old child who wasn’t breathing. The child was later pronounced dead at a hospital. During a preliminary hearing, a pathologist identified blunt force trauma to the head, torso and extremities as the cause of death. The pathologist detailed multiple skull fractures that led to lacerations of the brain and multiple fractures of the legs and arms that occurred over a period of time. Some of those fractures were healed, others were re-fractures of previous injuries. Police testimony detailed two interviews with Brooke Whitehead. In the first, she said she was the only adult caring for her children that night. In a subsequent interview, police said she provided four other scenarios of how the child received the injuries that ultimately claimed his life. The couple fled their home and detectives found them living in the Bellefonte area and had to have them extradited back to Washington County, where they are being held in the Washington County Jail without bond, awaiting trial. Walsh says he expects the case to go to trial sometime in February. (Photo: WPXI)