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BENNINGTON — A Hoosick Falls, N.Y., teenager was arraigned on felony sex assault charges on Monday after police said he forced a 13-year-old Bennington girl into sexual conduct earlier this year.
Kaine Maloney, 18, of Hoosick Falls, pleaded innocent to felony charges of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, sexual assault with no consent and sexual assault on a victim younger than 16.
The charge of sexual assault with no consent carries a mandatory minimum penalty of three years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison.
In an affidavit, Detective Sgt. Tyler Burgess, of the Vermont State Police, said he and an investigator from the Vermont Department of Children and Families interviewed the girl on Oct. 25. She told investigators that she had met Maloney at her school “while he was doing some type of work program” last year.
According to the girl, they continued to communicate by text messages and over the Internet. During the spring, Maloney came to see her while she was staying with her mother in Bennington.
Burgess said the girl told them Maloney forced her to perform a sexual act after she told him several times she didn’t want to do it.
According to Burgess, he and the other investigator spoke with Maloney on Oct. 26. Burgess said Maloney first denied any sexual conduct took place but then admitted the girl had touched him. While Burgess did not give any indication that Maloney said he forced the girl into sexual conduct, he said Maloney did seem remorseful.
Maloney was released without bail on Monday but ordered to observe a 24-hour curfew in Hoosick Falls.

BENNINGTON — A tow truck was stolen on Wednesday night and the actions of the alleged thief were captured on videotape, according to Lt. Lloyd Dean of the Bennington Police Department.
Dean said the theft of the flatbed, roll-off tow truck was reported around 6:45 a.m. on Thursday by employees of the All Service Citgo station at the intersection of Main and Dewey streets.
Surveillance video shows a blue and silver Ford Windstar van turning onto Dewey Street and pulling over the curb at 10:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Dean said.
According to police, a man got out of the van and went to the driver’s door of the 1996 black International tow truck, which has the Vermont license plate, BMM834. The man checked the door handle, broke a window and entered the truck.
In less than a minute, the man got the truck started and drove off, traveling west on Main Street. The video shows the minivan following closely.
Dean said there were no keys in the tow truck.
In addition to losing the truck, the service station lost several thousand dollars worth of tools that were inside.
Police have sent information about the tow truck to law enforcement agencies throughout the area with special attention paid to getting the information to New York, which borders Bennington. The license plate has been entered into Vermont and New York’s automated license plate reader system.
According to Dean, the video also shows a couple of people walking by the Citgo station around the same time as the theft. He is asking those people, and anyone else who may have information about the incident, to call the Bennington Police at 442-1030.