Dorian Hazlip,, 25, of Pittsburgh, entered the courtroom of Allegheny Common Pleas Judge Edward Borkowski shortly after 10:30 a.m. Monday wearing a red county jail uniform, handcuffed, shackled and accompanied by a sheriff’s deputy.
Within 15 minutes Hazlip was being taken back to the county jail, to be returned to prison, having just been sentenced to three years probation for beating a two-year-old girl, breaking her right arm, and inflicting additional injuries to the extent she had to be hospitalized the day after Thanksgiving in 2014.
According to court documents, as well as Hazlip’s own admission by pleading guilty to aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child, he repeatedly struck the child while he was babysitting her the day after Thanksgiving at the request of the girl’s mother, Daiona Kendrick
Hazlip, the documents allege, went to the child’s residence with a female friend identified as Kayla and her child to eat Thanksgiving dinner. Kendrick, did not know Kayla’s last name at the time, and it is unknown to what extent she knew Hazlip, if at all. Both Hazlip, Kayla along with her child, spent the night at Kendrick’s house.
The next morning Kayla and her daughter left, while Hazlip stayed at the residence. Unable to find anyone to babysit her daughter, Kendrick asked Hazlip to babysit her while she went to work.
When Kendrick returned home around 3:30 p.m., Hazlip, according to the documents, referred to the child as a “savage,” adding “she shit all over the house.” Hazlip told Kendrick that he had put the child in the bedroom for a timeout,” but never told her he had struck the child.
Around 7:00 p.m. Kendrick noticed bruising around the child’s back and other areas and took her to Children’s Hospital. As a result of the muscle and tissue damage the child was readmitted to the hospital the following day the documents say.
Hazlip was on parole at the time of the beating, for a three to 10 year prison sentence he received in 2011 from Judge Borkowski after pleading guilty to selling heroin and possessing a pistol with an obliterated serial number, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
“I want to apologize to everyone. I’m really not a bad person,” Hazlip said just before being sentenced.
The police criminal complaint filed in the case alleges Hazlip has been arrested in the past for, “aggravated assault, simple assault, receiving stolen property and drug offenses.”
Online court records show Hazlip was sentenced to a total of six months probation last July for lying to a police officer about his name and disorderly conduct.
Based on Hazlip’s prior criminal history he could have received a sentence of between two to four years in prison, just on the aggravated assault charge.
Borkowski also ordered Hazlip jailed for a period of nine to 18 months, but essentially suspended that portion of the sentence, and ordered him placed on probation once he is again released on parole. Hazlip was also ordered to complete an anger management class as well.
For now, however, Hazlip will be returned to a state prison as a result of the new conviction
