This is out of the Anchorage Press. A small newspaper here in Alaska.
"Terror at Mile 103"
Last year at the end of April, Orrin Pinard wrote to a judge in Palmer requesting a four-month extension on his deadline for completing a court ordered class for convicted batterers. Pinard pled indigence, writing that “transportation and financial issues” prevented him from completing the class on time. The classes he would have attended were held in Wasilla, more than sixty miles from the one-room cabin on Pinard’s mother’s property on the Parks Highway where Pinard lived and terrorized his wife. The form he signed is filled out in careful, neat handwriting. “I found a ride for my family violence intervention program and appreciate the extension,” he wrote.
Within 48 hours, before anyone could approve or deny his request, Orrin Pinard was back at his cabin beating his wife. She would escape with help from her mother-in-law, who had been babysitting the young couple’s toddler inside the main house on the property. The wife showed up in Seward and met with Alaska State Troopers three days after the assault. She still had bruises, including marks on her face where she’d been gagged and choked. She told troopers someone needed to check on the Parks Highway property. She feared Talkeetna-based troopers would respond too slowly if her mother-in-law were calling for help. She also told a terrifying story about being held captive for hours inside her one-room home.
Before she was choked, the wife told troopers, Pinard had coerced her into sexual acts with a dog, insisting it was a fetish she should satisfy. Afterward she was allowed to go to sleep, but awoke to a commotion. It was the sound of her husband raping the dog. She confronted him and he became enraged. The ensuing beating culminated with Pinard choking his wife with a wet t-shirt until she passed out. “I was sure I would not survive,” she would later tell a judge at her husband’s sentencing.
Troopers were sent to the Pinard place on the Parks Highway and found the dead body of a medium-sized mixed-breed dog in the driveway. Pinard would admit to beating the dog to death, confirm his wife’s story and be arrested. He admitted to restraining his wife by tying a long-sleeved t-shirt over her face like a gag, according to a State Trooper’s affidavit filed in Pinard’s most recent assault case. The trooper’s affidavit says Pinard admitted to having sex with the dog, saying he was bitten twice during the act.
“Orrin [Pinard] stated that he became angry for being bitten and ‘because the dog was causing problems in his marriage,’” investigator David Bower wrote, “so he bludgeoned the dog with a baseball bat, killing the dog.”
Pinard was in court Friday, January 14 for sentencing. Throughout the 40-minute hearing there was a palpable air of avoidance as the prosecutor, defense attorney and judge all spoke about Pinard and his crimes. All three avoided talking about the rape of the dog. Also cloaked, but for legal reasons and not some sense of moral sensitivity, were documents describing Pinard’s psychiatric history, which the judge and attorneys talked about, but are not included in the public portion of the court files.
Orrin Pinard is 23 and has a history of mental illness. That much was brought to light at his sentencing hearing at the Palmer courthouse. Assistant District Attorney Rachel Gernat told the court a psychologist had described Pinard as having schizoaffective and bipolar disorders. The report from that examination was shown to Superior Court Judge Eric Smith for sentencing purposes, but kept under seal.
Full article here : http://anchoragepress.com/articles/2011/01/19/news/doc4d376995700f8292489593.txt
"Terror at Mile 103"
Last year at the end of April, Orrin Pinard wrote to a judge in Palmer requesting a four-month extension on his deadline for completing a court ordered class for convicted batterers. Pinard pled indigence, writing that “transportation and financial issues” prevented him from completing the class on time. The classes he would have attended were held in Wasilla, more than sixty miles from the one-room cabin on Pinard’s mother’s property on the Parks Highway where Pinard lived and terrorized his wife. The form he signed is filled out in careful, neat handwriting. “I found a ride for my family violence intervention program and appreciate the extension,” he wrote.
Within 48 hours, before anyone could approve or deny his request, Orrin Pinard was back at his cabin beating his wife. She would escape with help from her mother-in-law, who had been babysitting the young couple’s toddler inside the main house on the property. The wife showed up in Seward and met with Alaska State Troopers three days after the assault. She still had bruises, including marks on her face where she’d been gagged and choked. She told troopers someone needed to check on the Parks Highway property. She feared Talkeetna-based troopers would respond too slowly if her mother-in-law were calling for help. She also told a terrifying story about being held captive for hours inside her one-room home.
Before she was choked, the wife told troopers, Pinard had coerced her into sexual acts with a dog, insisting it was a fetish she should satisfy. Afterward she was allowed to go to sleep, but awoke to a commotion. It was the sound of her husband raping the dog. She confronted him and he became enraged. The ensuing beating culminated with Pinard choking his wife with a wet t-shirt until she passed out. “I was sure I would not survive,” she would later tell a judge at her husband’s sentencing.
Troopers were sent to the Pinard place on the Parks Highway and found the dead body of a medium-sized mixed-breed dog in the driveway. Pinard would admit to beating the dog to death, confirm his wife’s story and be arrested. He admitted to restraining his wife by tying a long-sleeved t-shirt over her face like a gag, according to a State Trooper’s affidavit filed in Pinard’s most recent assault case. The trooper’s affidavit says Pinard admitted to having sex with the dog, saying he was bitten twice during the act.
“Orrin [Pinard] stated that he became angry for being bitten and ‘because the dog was causing problems in his marriage,’” investigator David Bower wrote, “so he bludgeoned the dog with a baseball bat, killing the dog.”
Pinard was in court Friday, January 14 for sentencing. Throughout the 40-minute hearing there was a palpable air of avoidance as the prosecutor, defense attorney and judge all spoke about Pinard and his crimes. All three avoided talking about the rape of the dog. Also cloaked, but for legal reasons and not some sense of moral sensitivity, were documents describing Pinard’s psychiatric history, which the judge and attorneys talked about, but are not included in the public portion of the court files.
Orrin Pinard is 23 and has a history of mental illness. That much was brought to light at his sentencing hearing at the Palmer courthouse. Assistant District Attorney Rachel Gernat told the court a psychologist had described Pinard as having schizoaffective and bipolar disorders. The report from that examination was shown to Superior Court Judge Eric Smith for sentencing purposes, but kept under seal.
Full article here : http://anchoragepress.com/articles/2011/01/19/news/doc4d376995700f8292489593.txt
