Crime & Safety

Local Teacher to Spend Weekend in Jail

Bedford woman, arrested multiple times for attacking her estranged husband, to serve three days of a 60-day sentence pending good behavior for a year.

A former Merrimack woman and Goffstown teacher will spend three days in jail after pleading guilty to breach of bail conditions in Merrimack's district court last week, according to a story in the Nashua Telegraph.

Cassandra Beauchesne, 28, of 38 Hawthorne Drive in Bedford, pleaded guilty to the charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping a criminal mischief charge, according to the Telegraph's report.

Back in September, the third and fourth times since last December, on criminal mischief charges for swinging a lawn chair and damaging her husband Eric Beauchesne's computer (Sept. 26) and charges of stalking and breach of bail conditions for contacting her husband only hours after a judge ordered her to have no contact with him (Sept. 29).

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On Dec. 23, 2010, she was arrested on four counts of simple assault for slapping, punching and twice choking her husband. 

On March 11, she was arrested a second time, charged with two felony counts of second-degree assault and one count of simple assault for allegedly hitting and choking him.

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Beauchesne is a teacher at Maple Avenue Elementary School in Goffstown.


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