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"A Lancaster County man is behind bars, charged with abusing his 3-year-old foster child.Court papers show Joshua Martin, 23, of Reinholds, became upset with the little girl after she threw up her dinner. The papers show he was \"annoyed with her\" so he banged her head and punched her.Martin is charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children.Court papers show the 3-year-old was treated at Reading Hospital on Sunday for suspected physical and sexual abuse. She was transferred to Penn State Hershey Medical Center with severe brain damage and is listed in critical condition.The court papers also show Martin told investigators he was rough with the girl while showering her and changing her on Friday, Sept. 21, and that while carrying her, he struck her head on a wooden door frame, then punched her with a closed fist in the head.A few days later, the documents show the girl again threw up her dinner and Martin says while showering her after that, she somehow fell. He was rough with her again while dressing her and she fell again -- this time, she was unresponsive, according to the documents.The girl's mother, Samantha Roeting, said she just wanted her family back together for Christmas.\"Suddenly we get a phone call Sunday night saying she was hit and rushed to the hospital,\" said Belle's grandmother, Deborah Roeting.\"It makes you upset to see her lay like that for her life. They told me in the hospital they're going to give her a couple days and if she doesn't give any effort then I have to pull the plug,\" Roeting said.Roeting said she plans to seek recourse in the case.Roeting said her three children went into foster care after a tough split with her boyfriend. Martin and his wife Marla were also foster parents to the girl's two siblings. They are 1 and 2 years old.The two other children have been moved to a new foster home.The county Children and Youth Agency said it will do its own internal investigation of this case in tandem with one by the state Department of Public Welfare.State police said additional charges are pending.Slideshow: Recent Susquehanna Valley arrests \u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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