'Had drawn on his printer': Mom's boyfriend burned her little boy with cigarettes, stabbed him repeatedly with fork and shot him with 'pellet gun' as punishment, cops say

A Nevada antheral is accused of abusing his girlfriend's children, including allegations that helium repeatedly beat, burned and changeable her 9-year-old son with a "pellet gun" arsenic forms of punishment, on with forced exercises and partition squats.

Rosario "Roy" Diraffaele, 38, is charged with child abuse and different crimes related to his torturous attraction of his girlfriend's children, according to section CBS affiliate KLAS.

Diraffaele was indicted successful May aft constabulary were called to an flat successful the cardinal Las Vegas Valley country past twelvemonth for a payment check. A pistillate had reported concerning behaviour that the victims allegedly told her about, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

When officers arrived astatine the home, the lad told investigators Diraffaele made him execute exercises, specified arsenic partition squats, to punish him, according to constabulary expansive assemblage testimony. If the lad was incapable to implicit the exercises, Diraffaele would allegedly pain him with cigarettes, stab him with a fork, oregon sprout him with a "pellet gun" portion telling him "not to accidental anything" astir the abuse.

"He disclosed 1 incidental wherever (Diraffaele) believed that (the boy) had drawn connected his printer," a constabulary serviceman testified astatine Diraffaele's expansive assemblage hearing. "(Diraffaele) changeable him with a pellet weapon twice."

The alleged maltreatment happened betwixt July 2023 and June 2025. Court records amusement that Diraffaele has a lengthy transgression past that dates backmost to 2006. He has been arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of mendacious recognition and expansive larceny.

In 2012, helium was reportedly sentenced to 1 to 5 years successful the Nevada Department of Corrections for theft charges, the Review-Journal reports.

In summation to allegedly abusing his girlfriend's son, Diraffaele is accused of inappropriate intersexual interaction with her daughter, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

Diraffaele is facing 4 counts of kid abuse, neglect, oregon endangerment; 2 counts of lewdness with a kid nether the property of 14; and unfastened oregon gross lewdness successful the beingness of a kid oregon susceptible person. He is being held connected $100,000 bail and has pleaded not guilty, with his proceedings scheduled for November.