Fredonia man charged with child abuse arrested again

A 48-year-old Town of Fredonia man awaiting trial in a child abuse case has been charged in connection with another altercation with a juvenile that also led to the arrest of a woman who took him into her house after the Sunday, July 20, incident.

The man, who Ozaukee Press is not naming to protect the identity of his alleged victims, was charged last week in Ozaukee County Circuit Court with causing mental harm to a child and bail jumping, both felonies, and misdemeanor counts of domestic abuse disorderly conduct and resisting an officer.  

He was charged in March with physically abusing a different child after an incident in Port Washington and was free in lieu of $1,000 bail at the time of the latest arrest. 

Alisa L. Kaminski, 45, of the Town of Saukville, was arrested at the same time as the man and is charged with harboring or aiding a felon.

According to a criminal complaint, Ozaukee County sheriff’s deputies went to the man’s house on July 20 after his ex-wife called authorities to report that their daughter had called her to report that she got into an altercation with her father and he was threatening to harm her.

When authorities arrived, the girl, who was alone at her father’s house, said she and her dad returned from a trip earlier that day and he had brought back several bottles of wine.

The girl told authorities she was upset by how much alcohol her father had consumed on the trip, noting he had been ordered not to drink or possess alcohol as conditions of his release in the child abuse case, the complaint states.

When she confronted him about this, the girl said, her father got very close to her and began yelling. She said she pushed him away, but he kept coming closer to her, according to the complaint.

The girl said the argument escalated and her father tried punching her and threatened to hurt her, the complaint states. Deputies noted the girl was visibly scared and upset. 

Kaminski was at the house at the time and the man left with her after his daughter said she was going to call the police.

Deputies went to Kaminski’s house and were greeted by Craig Kaminski, who told them the man was at the home and that he would go get him.

Instead, Craig Kaminski returned to the door with Alisa Kaminski, who stepped outside and told a deputy that the man’s attorney had advised him not to speak to officers, the complaint states.

Alisa Kaminski told deputies that she had picked up the man and his daughter after they returned from their trip and driven them back to his house. She said the girl and her father had gotten into an argument, during which the girl hit him three times and was trying to goad her father into hitting her, according to the complaint.

Alisa Kaminski said she separated the two of them, then took the man to her house to prevent the situation from escalating.

When deputies told the Kaminskis they were going to arrest the man, Alisa Kaminski went back into the house, consulted with the man and returned to tell deputies that his lawyer advised him not to speak with officers unless they had a warrant, the complaint states.

The deputies obtained a warrant, which Alisa Kaminski asked to see, then arrested the man. When they asked the man for his cell phone, Alisa Kaminski asked to see where on the warrant it allowed deputies to seize his phone, according to the complaint.

Alisa and Craig Kaminski were arrested. Craig Kaminski was also charged with harboring or aiding a felon, but during a July 22 hearing, Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Steve Cain ruled there wasn’t probable cause to support the charge and dismissed the case against him.

Cain ruled there was probable cause to support the charge against Alisa Kaminski and set her bail at a $2,500 signature bond.

The initial case against the man stemmed from a petition for a temporary restraining order against him filed by his ex-girlfriend in January.

The petition contained details of a May 2024 incident, which a deputy asked the woman about.

She said she was living in Port Washington at the time in a house that abutted a park, adding that the neighborhood children hung out in her back yard.

On May 19, 2024, she said, she noticed one of the neighborhood boys was crying. The boy said the woman’s 7-year-old son had hit him.

The woman said the man, who was at her house at the time, immediately began screaming at her son, who ran toward the park out of fear. The man caught up to the boy and shoved him with both hands, causing the child to fly through the air and land on his side. The boy was crying as the man stood over him screaming, according to a criminal complaint.

During a forensic interview, the boy provided a similar account of the incident, saying the man used both hands to push him to the ground, the complaint states.

A woman who lives in the neighborhood told authorities she witnessed the incident and said it was so traumatic that she had trouble sleeping after it.

The witness said she saw the boy running toward the park with the man following him, yelling loudly at him to “respect women” and “you will not talk to your mother like that,” according to the complaint.

The witness said that when the man caught up to the boy, he put both hands on his chest and pushed him, causing the child to fly backwards and land on his back. She said the man then put his foot on the boy’s chest as he was screaming and flailing, the complaint states. 

The witness equated the incident to a man shoving another man in a “bar brawl” and said she thought someone needed to call the police or intervene but she didn’t want to be the “nosy neighbor,” according to the complaint.

The boy’s mother said she confronted the man because she had previously told him he is not allowed to discipline her children, but he tried to justify his actions by telling her she didn’t know how to control her kids.

In text messages sent by the man to the woman, he said her son was to blame for the altercation between the boys and wrote, “Who is going to finally step up and be his parent and discipline? As of now, I see it’s not (redacted) or you. His behavior will be nothing more than escalate without consequences. Shame on both of you parents,” the complaint states.

The man was charged in March with physical abuse of a child-intentionally causing bodily harm. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

He is currently free in lieu of $7,500 bail in the most recent case against him.