There isn't a tremendous amount of information about this case that's been released yet, but I can't help but get the impression from what is available that there is possibly more going on here. Even if not, the description of the crimes is fairly sensational.
Ethan Mast (35) and Kourtney Aumen (21) have been arrested in Benton County, Missouri, and charged with 2nd degree murder, several accounts of assault, and sexual abuse in the beatings and abuse of a neighboring family which led to the death of the victimized family's four-year-old daughter. The adults of the victim-family have been identified as James and Mary Mast, both 28. Whether the victims are related to the perpetrator, though, has not yet been established.
According to the filed probable cause statement, two weeks ago Ethan and Kourtney began entering the victim-family's home daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and viciously beating the mother, her four-year-old daughter, and two-year-old son with wooden spoons, leather belts, and other objects while the father was forced to watch. It is alleged the daughter had also been sexually abused as well. The father does not seem to have been a consistent target of the abuse, although he alleges he was beaten a few times and threatened with a gun if he tried to intervene or even showed compassion for his wife and children whilst the beatings were occurring. A third child, a baby, does not appear to have been harmed. According to the father, Ethan and Kourtney declared that his wife "had a demon", and that his children might also be possessed by demons if the problem was not "taken care of" in the manner prescribed by the offending couple.
According to the affadavit,
After the offenders left, the family went back out and collected their daughter, bringing her inside and, apparently, finally calling the police when it was clear she was dead. Police also found the mother and the two-year-old boy with extensive bruising and injuries all over their bodies. They were taken to the hospital, where they recovered and were eventually released.
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I don't find much reason to doubt any of the facts as alleged yet. The family was clearly being terrorized, and under such conditions I'm not one to question, for instance, why the father didn't a Manly-Man Up and Manly-ly protect his family like a Real Man should; in my experience things are rarely that simple. But I'm still very curious as to why, whether the victims are blood-related to the perpetrators or not, they wouldn't have called the police after the first incident. It makes me think that these beatings might just be the climax of a longer-term campaign of increasing violence; like a frog-boil kind of situation.
I suppose we will learn more in coming days.
Ethan Mast (35) and Kourtney Aumen (21) have been arrested in Benton County, Missouri, and charged with 2nd degree murder, several accounts of assault, and sexual abuse in the beatings and abuse of a neighboring family which led to the death of the victimized family's four-year-old daughter. The adults of the victim-family have been identified as James and Mary Mast, both 28. Whether the victims are related to the perpetrator, though, has not yet been established.
According to the filed probable cause statement, two weeks ago Ethan and Kourtney began entering the victim-family's home daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and viciously beating the mother, her four-year-old daughter, and two-year-old son with wooden spoons, leather belts, and other objects while the father was forced to watch. It is alleged the daughter had also been sexually abused as well. The father does not seem to have been a consistent target of the abuse, although he alleges he was beaten a few times and threatened with a gun if he tried to intervene or even showed compassion for his wife and children whilst the beatings were occurring. A third child, a baby, does not appear to have been harmed. According to the father, Ethan and Kourtney declared that his wife "had a demon", and that his children might also be possessed by demons if the problem was not "taken care of" in the manner prescribed by the offending couple.
According to the affadavit,
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On Saturday, Mast and Aumen once again arrived at about 8:00 a.m. at which time Mast began beating the two-year-old boy with a wooden spoon. Then they left and returned around 5:00 p.m., and began beating the girl with a leather belt as she begged her family for help which was not forthcoming. She was then forced outside and made to get into a pond and stand in the water. Then the girl was held underwater by an unidentified adult, her father being forced to watch. Then Mast beat the little girl with his fist and a belt and continued beating the little boy with the spoon. The girl, wet and beaten, was left on the bank to freeze. Then they all went into the house, at which point Mast and Aumen left. |
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I don't find much reason to doubt any of the facts as alleged yet. The family was clearly being terrorized, and under such conditions I'm not one to question, for instance, why the father didn't a Manly-Man Up and Manly-ly protect his family like a Real Man should; in my experience things are rarely that simple. But I'm still very curious as to why, whether the victims are blood-related to the perpetrators or not, they wouldn't have called the police after the first incident. It makes me think that these beatings might just be the climax of a longer-term campaign of increasing violence; like a frog-boil kind of situation.
I suppose we will learn more in coming days.
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