(March 22, 2006)—Dennis Michael Bittinger, 22, a Fort Hood soldier, was arrested Wednesday and charged with injury to a child in connection with a videotaped attack on a 5-year-old boy, Killeen police said.

He was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bond.

An arrest warrant was issued for Bittinger’s wife, Rhonda, 23, in connection with the incident.

The arrest came after the boy’s mother told police she discovered a videotape on March 4 at her babysitter’s home in Killeen that showed her babysitter’s husband urging his 3-year-old daughter to fight the 5-year-old boy.

“She heard a voice to be that of the babysitter’s husband commanding that his 3-year-old daughter and the victim fight,” police said in a prepared release.

“The babysitter is also seen in the video watching and participating in the activity and at one point slaps one of the children,” police said.

“The husband is heard directing his daughter to knock the victim to the floor, kick him in the face and strike him in the face with her hands and she does so; throughout the incident the victim is heard crying and begging them to stop,” police said.

After what police described as “a prolonged assault involving many kicks, bites and blows,,” the man declared his daughter the winner and then shoved the 5-year-old, demanding to know why the boy didn't defend himself.

The boy suffered bruises, police said.