GREENFIELD, Ind. — A Greenfield man has been sentenced to three years in prison after his 2-year-old child was found standing alone in a diaper and suffering from severe hypothermia and frostbite.
Online court records indicate that Logan Nickolas received a five-year sentence in Hancock Circuit Court. Since two of those years were suspended, he will serve a total of three years behind bars.
On July 9, he agreed to plead guilty to a Level 5 felony for neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury. In exchange, the state dismissed a Level 6 felony for neglect of a dependent that had been pending against him in the case.
According to previous reports, Nickolas was arrested last year after a woman spotted a child standing in the snow with only a diaper while bitterly cold temperatures plummeted to 13 degrees in December 2025. Greenfield police responded to Prairie Meadows Apartments on Indian Grass Lane and recovered the freezing child…