New York: Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, 59, is accused of beating and sexually abusing foster kids as well as raping the family dog in front of the kids

NEW YORK -- A Long Island foster parent who cared for up to 140 boys over the past two decades was charged Friday with sexually abusing seven of the children — and the family dog, too.

Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, 59, of Ridge, in Suffolk County, was ordered held on $1 million bond Friday after being charged with child endangerment, sexual misconduct and the abuse of the dog in a 17-count indictment, officials said.

The predator is accused of sexually abusing children as young as 8 and forcing them to live under punishing conditions — beating them, forcing them to stand outside in the cold.

Several of the boys were placed in the predator’s care by the New York City Administration for Children’s Services.

The twisted tormentor was also accused of having sex with raping a female dog in front of a child.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota told The Associated Press that Gonzales-Mugaburu earned as much as $18,000 a month as a foster parent and cared for between six and eight children at a time since at least 1996.

Gonzales-Mugaburu adopted some of the kids, a number of whom were developmentally disabled, although Spota said he did not know how many.

 

Neighbor Travis Grosskopf, 18, said he had been friends with one of Gonzales-Mugaburu’s adopted sons.

“I’m in shock honestly,” Grosskopf said. “I never thought this would be a house of horrors.”

(NY Daily News - March 19, 2016)