MAYKING, Ky. — A Letcher County man has been arrested on multiple counts of sexual abuse, after police were called to investigate one case and other children began coming forward.

Police first received a report from a woman that Stephen Maggard, 56, of Mayking, had touched her 6-year-old daughter inappropriately.

When police went to check it out, the little girl told them the incident happened while they were on a trampoline. The girl’s sister and a boy and girl who are cousins of the sisters also reported instances of inappropriate touching. Two of the children also told police Maggard had made threats to kill all or most of the people in the house with a machete.

When police went to talk to Maggard about the allegations, he reportedly told them he had touched the first girl, but it was an accident. When he was told he was being placed under arrest, the police report notes he stood up, made a fist and pulled back his arm, but he was immediately taken to the ground and arrested.

Maggard is now charged with four counts of sexual abuse, as well as terroristic threatening and resisting arrest. He is being held in the Letcher County jail on a $25,000 cash bond.