An Indiana father faces felony charges following a heartbreaking incident on December 15, 2025. The Greenfield Police Department received a call about a young child walking outside alone in the snow wearing nothing but a diaper. When they arrived at the Prairie Meadows apartment complex in Greenfield around 3 p.m., police officers found a crying 2-year-old who had hypothermia and frostbite. They quickly put the child in a warm car before following a trail of tiny footprints. They ended their search at an apartment on Switchgrass Drive, where the door was slightly ajar. Inside, the child’s father, 20-year-old Logan Nickolas, lay sleeping on the couch. Now, he’s sleeping in a jail cell, awaiting his fate.
According to court documents obtained by Fox 59, when police arrived at the apartment, the temperature outside was just 13 degrees. The toddler’s skin was dark red and the toes and fingers had frostbite. Per a police news release, “Officers made several loud announcements before the man woke up.” Nickolas told officers the child was his and belonged at the apartment. He denied using drugs and claimed he’d “dozed off” on the couch. Court documents revealed the apartment reportedly smelled like “burnt marijuana.” Officers reported finding drug paraphernalia inside the apartment and a handgun on the counter.
The child’s mother, identified online as Alexis Summers, reportedly told police it was her apartment, Fox 59 reported. She said she let Nickolas stay there “on and off.” She also claimed he smoked marijuana and used “any other type of drug that he could get his hands on.”
Alexis Summers’ sister, Jada Summers, shared a long, supportive post on Facebook for her sister.
“I LOVE YOU! If anyone has anything to say about my baby sister go ahead and say it to me because none of this is her fault and this situation has been absolutely devastating she has a baby to worry about right now and all these disgusting comments towards her don’t help him or her in anyway it just makes things more painful and is extremely uncalled for,” she wrote.
Police arrested Nickolas, and he faces charges of neglect of a dependent resulting in injury and neglect of a dependent in a situation that endangers them. The toddler was taken to an area hospital in stable condition.
We’d love to give this father the benefit of the doubt and say that sometimes kids can open doors and wander off in the safest of situations. But if there were truly drugs and a gun around, this dad is right where he should be, thanking his lucky stars that no one died that day.
