A father assaulted his six-year-old daughter and buried her alive.

According to authorities, a Pennsylvania dad beat, choked, and reportedly buried his 6-year-old daughter in the yard because he felt she was lying. He is now charged with a crime.

According to a police complaint cited by KDKA, the child told detectives that her father, John Kraft, 50, often struck her with a belt and his arm, which was fitted with a metal rod during surgery.

She said that he buried her and left her there all night.

Greene County District Attorney David Russo said, “The accusations are that this kid was violently battered, that the girl had bruises all over her body, and that she was strangled to the point that she had passed out.”

Social workers discovered serious bruises on the girl’s torso and face in September.

When the youngster and a sibling were questioned by authorities two weeks ago, they revealed that Kraft reportedly buried the girl in a hole in the backyard.

The father abused his 6-year-old daughter before burying her alive.

According to the police report, the child said her father would abandon her in the yard “until she spoke the truth and that she would emerge out of the ground unclean and stinking like sewage.”

Assault, simple assault, strangling, endangering the welfare of minors, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment of a juvenile, and illegal restraint of a minor are among the charges brought against Kraft.

$125,000 was determined as his bail amount.

According to reports, the two kids have been given foster care.