SKOWHEGAN — A Nokomis Regional High School music teacher has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on nine domestic violence charges in connection with allegations that he severely assaulted a woman.
Andrew B. Maderios, 28, of Pittsfield is charged with four counts of aggravated assault, four counts of domestic violence assault and one count of obstructing the reporting of a crime, according to the indictment released Friday.
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District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said Maderios is a threat to the woman, who is his former live-in girlfriend, and registers high on two assessment tools that evaluate the danger faced by a victim of domestic violence in a relationship.
Maderios, who is on paid leave from his job at the high school, allegedly beat, bruised and strangled the woman until she lost consciousness in a series of incidents that began the day after Christmas, according to court documents.
The assaults are alleged to have occurred in December, January, March and June at Maderios’ home.
Some of the alleged assaults were caught on audio from the victim’s cellphone, according to court records.
In a court affidavit filed in support of a warrant for Maderios’ arrest, domestic violence investigator James Ross said Maderios’ girlfriend told him July 7 she had been attacked over the past two years. She said she began documenting the assaults with audio recordings of Maderios on her cellphone and with photographs she took of her injuries.
On Dec. 26, she locked herself in their home’s bathroom after a disagreement, according to the affidavit. She told Ross that Maderios used a metal rod to pop the lock and strangled her until she passed out. When she woke up, she tried to call 911, but Maderios allegedly smashed the phone, resulting in the obstructing charge.
The abuse allegedly continued into the next day, Dec. 27, when Maderios allegedly told the woman to “take your last breath because you are going to die,” according to court documents.
Maderios almost always put his hands around the woman’s neck and squeezed, Ross wrote. Maderios allegedly told her the abuse was her fault, because “you make me do these things to you.”
The four felony charges against Maderios are felonies, punishable by up to 10 years in prison on each count.
Superior Court Justice Robert Mullen, during Maderios’ initial appear in court in August, doubled the $5,000 bail set after Maderios’ arrest to $10,000.
Maderios has not entered a plea. His arraignment is set for Sept. 17.
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