PHILLIPS – A local man arrested on a warrant in New Hampshire has been charged with assaulting his juvenile son, following a Franklin County Sheriff’s Office investigation.
Dylan Czubaruk, 23 of Phillips, has been charged with assault on a child less than six years old, a Class C felony. The charge relates to an allegation that Czubaruk pushed his five-year-old son to the ground, causing bruises.
According to the arrest affidavit filed with Franklin County Superior Court, the child’s mother called dispatchers from her home in New Hampshire on March 9, reporting that her child had been assaulted by his father, Czubaruk, at his home in Phillips. FCSO Sgt. Matthew Brann met with the mother and the child, with the investigator seeing bruises on the child’s shin and shoulder. The child told Brann that Czubaruk put those bruises on him with his fingers when he pushed him to the ground.
Brann spoke with Czubaruk, who was then in New Hampshire, about the bruises. Czubaruk reportedly said that he had spanked the child before but denied inflicting the injuries.
As part of the investigation, Brann visited the child’s school and determined that the child was consistently absent or tardy, having accumulated 33 absences in the past few months.
Brann and FCSO Lt. David St. Laurent spoke to the child again on March 13, as part of a forensic interview. The child reportedly told the officers that he had been “messing with his Dad’s X-Box remote control” and that Czubaruk had become upset and “smashed him down.” He also described alleged incidents in which Czubaruk had slapped him and put fingers down his throat, causing him to choke. The child said that those incidents relating to the child “playing with the X-Box or tablet.”
Brann applied for an arrest warrant, which was issued on March 13. Czubaruk was arrested in New Hampshire and transported back to Franklin County Detention Center on March 15. On March 18, he was released on $1,500 cash bail, with conditions to include no contact with individuals involved in the case.
