AR-News: PA Man Allegedly Kills Family Dog, Threatens Children

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Subject: TRIBUNE REVIEW./PITTSBURGH,
PA/MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING FAMILY DOG/THREATENS/KIDS

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Man accused of killing pet, threatening his children
By Jennifer Reeger
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, February 28, 2004

A Fayette County man faces numerous charges after allegedly killing the
family dog, making his children clean up the bloody mess and then
threatening to kill them if they told anyone, state police said. Scot
Richard Maust, 33, of 197 Turkeyfoot Road, Lemont Furnace, was arrested
earlier this week for the alleged incidents, which state police at Uniontown
said began Sunday with the slaying of the family's dog. State police took
statements from the four children. The children were interviewed on Tuesday
at Kennedy Elementary School. Maust was arrested later that day.

He was charged with four counts of making terroristic threats, four counts
of corruption of minors and one count of cruelty to animals.

According to a criminal complaint filed with District Justice Deberah Kula,
the children told police that Maust shot the family dog, Bear Bear, in the
basement of their home because the unspayed female had left the yard with a
stray male dog.

"Daddy didn't want her to have more babies," one child told police. The
children said the whole family was crying and begging Maust not to kill the
dog.  After shooting the dog twice with a .22-caliber gun about 1 a.m.
Sunday, Maust told the children to go down into the basement and hug the
dead dog, police said.

The children told police Maust made them clean up the blood with paper
towels in the morning. "Maust told them that he would take them out of
school and kill them if they told anyone," the affidavit states. At least
two of the children told their teachers the next day at school. Both
children told police they were hit with a board when they got home from
school for telling.  One child told police Maust told them to say that the
dog had parvo virus or rabies if anyone asked.

Maust was arraigned by Kula, who imposed $20,000 straight bond. Jennifer
Reeger can be reached at jreeger at tribweb.com or (724) 836-6155.
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