Twenty-eight-year-old Ross Hurst remains in the Westmoreland County Prison after his preliminary hearing on a child endangerment charge was postponed Wednesday. Outside the courtroom, Hurst told reporters that he wasn't pretending to be a ninja when Scottdale police charged him March 3 at about 1:30 a.m.
Hurst says he simply "went for a jog" -- but acknowledges he shouldn't have left his son alone.
But police insist Hurst was dressed all in black and "playing ninja" when they confronted him. They say Hurst claimed his mother was babysitting, but she told police she wasn't.
