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Baby sitter suspected of taking drunken nap
A Lake Geneva man accused of falling asleep drunk while baby-sitting a 3-year-old boy injured when he jumped from a second-floor window remained in the Walworth County Jail on Wednesday on a probation hold.
David A. Rasch, 41, was charged in late July with one count of child neglect resulting in great bodily harm, a felony that carries a prison sentence of up to six years.
Rasch appeared in Walworth County Court on Wednesday, but his case was reset for a 1 p.m. hearing on Oct. 27.
County officials want to hear from the state Department of Corrections about its plans to hold Rasch on 2007 criminal cases involving drugs and drunken driving as a repeater.
According to the criminal complaint in the child neglect case:
On the evening of May 30, Elkhorn police went to the apartment to help a boy that witnesses said had fallen out of a second-floor window.
The boy was lying on his back and screaming that he was hurt.
Neighbors told police they tried to contact an adult at the boy's apartment but nobody answered the door.
An officer knocked on the door for nearly two minutes and then tried to open it, but the door would open only a few inches.
The boy told police he had wanted to go outside, but he couldn't use the apartment door because a chair was in the way.
The boy then decided to jump out of a window.
The officer saw another child in the apartment who ran to a back bedroom and got Rasch out of bed.
As the officer talked with Rasch, he smelled of alcohol. Rasch then admitted drinking and falling asleep.
A breath test by police confirmed Rasch had been drinking.
The boy was treated at a hospital for a concussion, scrapes and bruises.
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Man is indicted in death of mother
WORCESTER- A Leominster man charged with stabbing his mother to death is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 8 in Worcester Superior Court.
Thomas B. Scesny, 27, of 39 Biscuit Hill Drive, Leominster, was indicted Aug. 20 on a charge of murder in the April 12 stabbing death of 46-year-old Lisa Scesny in the family's home.
Mr. Scesny, who was arrested the day of the killing, is being held without bail at Bridgewater State Hospital, where mental health professionals have deemed him mentally incompetent to stand trial, according to his lawyer Leonard J. Staples. Mr. Staples said the issue of Mr. Scesny's competency to stand trial must still be addressed by the court.
Lawyer James G. Reardon Jr., who represented Mr. Scesny at his April 13 arraignment in Leominster District Court, said Mr. Scesny had a history of mental illness and had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Judge Mark E. Noonan committed Mr. Scesny to Bridgewater State Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. The case was transferred to Worcester Superior Court as a result of the Aug. 20 indictment.
Webster
Special permit sought to keep 13 dogs at home
WEBSTER -The Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing Monday on a special permit application from a couple who want to keep 13 dogs in their Slater Street house.
Christopher J. Roy and Michelle M. Poirier have asked for a special permit to keep their dogs at 37 Slater St., which is zoned single-family residential.
The Slaters' menagerie of dogs includes black Labradors, greyhounds, golden retrievers, beagles and Chihuahuas. Several of the dogs are old, and three dogs - two of which are on medication - experience periodic seizures. The couple included reference letters from the Southbridge town clerk and dog officer with their application, as well as notes of support from their dog sitter, veterinarian and former neighbors in Southbridge.
The couple said their dogs have always been current on their vaccines and properly cared for.
They said they have received no complaints from their former neighbors about the dogs being offensive or obnoxious in any way related to noise, odor or waste. The couple also said they would be willing to sign a letter stating they do not intend to replace any of the dogs when they die. There is nothing in the town's general bylaws regulating the number of dogs owned by an individual.
The public hearing is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Monday in the basement conference room of Town Hall.
Shrewsbury
5 school choice seats still open for Grade 9
SHREWSBURY - The high school still has five seats available for the ninth-grade class through its new school choice program.
The School Committee voted to open 20 seats in the ninth grade at the high school to school choice participants for the 2010-11 school year as a way of making up some of the $100,000 lost as a result of Shrewsbury residents going to school outside the district.
Diane Abbott, registrar, said yesterday that 15 students are registered through the program. She said 12 are girls and three are boys. They come from Charlton, Boylston, Leicester, Northbridge and Worcester. School begins Tuesday.
Anyone interested may go online to www.shrewsbury.k12.ma.us to get information or download an application. Questions about the school choice application process should be directed to Ms. Abbott at dabbott@ shrewsbury.k12.ma.us or (508) 841-8320.
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House-sitter charged with theft
Patricia Marie Viktora, 64, is summoned to appear April 1 in Mower County court on the single criminal count.
According to a criminal complaint, police were notified of the incident on Dec. 3 when a 64-year-old man and his 87-year-old mother returned home from a trip.
The two noticed nothing disturbed throughout the house, located on the 2700 block of 12th Street Southwest, but they did discover $6,000 missing from a safe. The man said he believed Viktora was the only one to have access to the home as they had left her to watch it.
Initially, Viktora told authorities that she had nothing to do with the missing money, the complaint states. Instead, she claimed she saw a "suspicious" man near the home while the couple was away and indicated it may have been him.
However, Viktora's written statement differed, and upon further police questioning, she admitted to taking the money.
She said she thought she had only taken $2,700 from the safe, the complaint states. Viktora said she committed the theft because she wasn't being fairly compensated for watching the home.