RIVERTON, Utah (KSL.com) — A criminal charge was filed Wednesday against a Riverton man accused of assaulting a 14-year-old boy who rang his doorbell and ran away.

Marshal Aho, 23, is charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated child abuse, a third-degree felony.

On June 22, a 14-year-old boy told police he and some friends “decided to walk to a gas station. While out, they decided to ‘ding dong ditch’ a string of townhomes. After they rang the doorbells, they began running,” according to charging documents.

As the boys were running north along 1630 West near 12700 South, they noticed that three men who had been in a garage when they rang one of the doorbells were chasing them.

The 14-year-old boy fell on some rocks near a sidewalk and “the main guy,” as the teen called him, “pushed

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