Man Accused of Putting Young Child in a Running Clothes Dryer
Milwaukee man allegedly abused two young children while living in Oak Creek, including hitting them with a spoon and breaking one child's arm.
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A 26-year-old Milwaukee man is facing charges after he allegedly abused two young children in an Oak Creek home, including putting one of them in a running clothes dryer on multiple occasions.
Nicholas James Fuchs was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court Thursday with three counts of physical abuse of a child, one count of second-degree reckless endangerment, one count of false imprisonment and one count of strangulation.
If convicted, he faces up to 74 years in prison and $165,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint:
From January through October 2011, Fuchs abused a 4-year-old and 5-year-old, unbeknown to the mother, while he lived with her in Oak Creek.
The children told police he would hit them on the bottom of their feet with a spoon and put their feet in a tub full of hot water. He also choked one of the children and pinched the penis of one child.
One child said they had urinated in their pajamas, so Fuchs put the child in a clothes dryer and turned it on. After further interviewing the children, police discovered he had done this on several occasions.
In July 2011, Fuchs broke an arm of one child. The incident was investigated as possible child abuse, but he said the injury was due to roughhousing.
Fuchs is currently being held in Milwaukee County Jail while awaiting trial.
Sarah Worthman
5:19 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
This makes me SO angry! Why does this man look happy in his mug shot? SMH, just disgusting.
Disgusted!
8:31 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012
People don't get charged with 6 FELONYS unless there is evidence....just sayin.....everyone can keep saying they don't believe it, but tell that to the little kids who have these awful memories for the rest of their lives.
Dani
5:25 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
This makes me sick. I hope he gets some special love and attention in prison. I'd like to know his relation to the mother of the kids and why this went on so long without being noticed. Be careful who you let in your homes when you have kids!!
Tiffany Marie
8:16 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
I went to school with this kid!!!! I can't believe he or anyone could get to the point of insanity or even just no remorse for the pain they cause. And I totally agree with you Sarah, he totally has a smirk on his face, but why!?!
Mandi
9:14 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
I went to school with him too and I never would have thought in a million years he would do this! Its sad how the mom never even cared to notice that her kids were being tortured by him. Both the mother and the lunatic are to blame! I trust no one with my kids except for me, their dad or my mom!!!
Nicholas Fuchs
8:29 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
He is giving the name a bad one...
Jessica Moreno
11:06 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
If you went to school with him how could u ever think this about nick fuchs? He wouldn't hurt a fly! I'm his cousin and was there when the mother refused to take that little girl in when she broke her arm at Gymnastics and my cousin took her to the hospital!!!! After this is dropped all of you will owe him and his mother an appoligy and that so-called mom will be prosecuted for PERGERY!!!! Shame on you! I would still trust him with my child! Those kids still asking why is DADDY on the news! So dnt believe everything you see on tv! We personally know tragedy in our family because he was with me when my sister Rachel Thompson was murdered
with her two boys in 2010!
Disgusted!
12:19 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012
Your ignorance is evident....This little girl broke her arm in the summer, the gymnastics place she goes to didn't even open until September, therefore she did not break her arm at gymnastics....and don't you think that there would be an accident reports if that were the case? There is none. Shows how much you really know these kids, they are certainly not calling him Daddy! You should be ashamed! It's people like you that support the abusers that innocent children are afraid to tell! You do not know the mother and only go off of what Nick says. This mom was working!!!! Supporting her children AND Nick when she would leave them with him. Nick had no job, no car, no place to live and was using the mother. Funny how you forgot to mention those facts! The only apology needed is to the kids who endured the abuse by this monster!!!
Ward Lori
12:05 am on Saturday, April 14, 2012
How & why would 2 small children make up such detailed, falsified things? & why DOES he look so smug? just asking.....
Patrick OConnor
10:16 am on Saturday, April 14, 2012
He is not happy in the picture... I have known him my whole life and he was like a brother to me growing up. I stared at that picture for hours trying to figure out the look on his face. Knowing him as long as I have I can say with confidence that the look on his face is that of a very scared, but confident man. Confident because he knows he has been charged with a crime that is B.S. The part they do not tell you in the news is that he went through a bad break up with the mother not too long ago. I have also read posts about how much he misses those kids on his facebook over the past few months and his page is littered with pictures of him and those children. In the pictures the children are smiling and laughing and very close to him. There is no fear what so ever. Like I said I have known him my entire life and I have seen him around small children including my 4 year old niece, and his nieces and nephews, as well as mutual friends children and he is so good with them. Only a monster could do these things they say he has done, and a monster he is not.
truth in reporting
12:29 pm on Saturday, April 14, 2012
i agree i dont know him but this whole thing seems contrived and petty even if he did do it what context was it done in? if he did these things why is it being brought up now so long after the fact? cuz hitting someone on the foot with a spoon is child abuse come on yea technically its using an object but get real sounds like manipulating words. how many caregivers can say that they have never had their kids feet touch what may or may not be considered hot water? it doesnt say forced? maybe they were taking a bath and started getting in and it was too hot. the whole dryer thing sounds childish and possibly blown out of proportion we need to think about the age of these kids and theyre ability to articulate circumstances and it seems like they could have been coerced. who even knows about pinching the kids penis maybe he was helping the kid zip up his pants and it was an accident. but just so you know im not taking this lightly male 'stepfather' figures are known to abuse children at a higher rate than anyone and maybe that is the case here and the relationship wasnt going good and he took it out on the kids but i guess everyone will find out the real truth. . and on that note bringing child abuse accusations upon someone is very dirty and horrid and if they are indeed falsified that mother shouldnt have the privilege of having her kids either.
Brian
11:04 am on Saturday, April 14, 2012
Uploaded his last 6 Facebook profile pics....
truth in reporting
12:36 pm on Saturday, April 14, 2012
the cps in milwaukee is one of the ten worst in a country that is extremely corrupt in that department. that mother will be lucky if she doesnt lose her kids whether or not the accusations are real
oak creek resident
7:59 am on Sunday, April 15, 2012
Based on some of these blogs, I hope these children are NOT with the mother either. I think there is more to this story. Yet, why would these kids make this abuse up? I don't think they did. SOMEONE abused these kids! They should be somewhere safe until the truth comes out.
Sue in Oshkosh
12:52 pm on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Some of Nicks family members are posting about how he could never do this. How much do YOU really know him? Both Nick and the Mother need to be tortured like the kids were! The DCFS does not release and drum up charges unless they have enough proof. I do not want to think about all the things he did to these children that has not came out in the news. One thing I know, people in prison do NOT like anyone that has hurt kids. I hope he gets what he gave!!!! God bless the children.
Retired in Dance
1:33 pm on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
His smug look is in no way a scared look!!! Who do you think you are trying to fool? Your family needs to take a good look at Nick cause he is a horrible monster that will be punished! The mother is obviously infuriated and humiliated knowing her children were hurt the way they were! Did you not read the article??? She reported everything to the police! Don't be so quick to judge her when she was working to support the monster himself! How could she have known? The blame falls on Nick 100% and he will be punished if not by his inmates then by God!
Debbie Brandon
6:11 pm on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
don't convict until proven.
Cindy Callahan
7:56 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
A few nights in the big house will wipe that smirk off his ugly face!
Debbie Brandon
11:07 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
what has the face have to do with it. let the courts handle it.if he did it he needs a lot of help because children should not be hurt at anytime ever.