Concord Child Sexual Assaulter Arrested On Assault, Strangulation Charges

CONCORD, NH — A local child sexual assaulter and sex offender is facing new charges after a domestic assault incident on Fisherville Road late last year.

Around 4:15 a.m. on Dec. 10, 2023, police were sent to an apartment at the Oak Ridge Condominiums for a report of a woman screaming, who sounded as if she was in pain, and a man’s voice, too. When police arrived, they had difficulty entering the building but got to the apartment in question later. Police found a man, who was shirtless and out of breath, as well as a woman. The man had scratch marks on his stomach and blood on his cheek.

The officer accused the man, later identified as David Allen, 40, of Fisherville Road in Concord, of screaming about his sex offender status and his prior sexual assault conviction. The officer asked to see his hands and noted they appeared to have scrapes on them, including his red knuckles, “consistent with having been punching or hitting something,” a report stated.

The officers questioned Allen and the woman. Allen said he went out to Cumbies earlier and when he returned, the woman began to question why he was gone so long, the report said. Allen said he became angered and began to fight her, the affidavit stated.

“David prefaced this by saying that they were both ‘black belts’ in karate, and they trained over at a place on Hall Street,” the officer wrote.

Allen was accused of admitting to pinning the woman on a couch, covering her mouth, and then she began to scream. He said he told the woman, “If you can scream, you can breathe,” the affidavit said. The woman told him to get off, and when he would not let her go, she threatened they would go “full force” like they do in karate, the report said. Allen was accused of admitting the woman had scratched him in the face in self-defense, and he bit her hand in retaliation, the officer wrote. They continued fighting, with Allen admitting he struck the woman in the face with shoes, too, the report stated. When asked if the woman had ever told him that she could not breathe, Allen said she had, “but she was screaming, so he believed she still could,” the report stated.

The officer, seeing a bottle of vodka on a coffee table, asked if he had been drinking, and he said he had, the affidavit stated. The officer accused Allen of being impaired, but he did not smell any alcohol on him.

The officer then spoke to the woman, “who was clearly distraught,” had a swollen, red face, and a large bruise on her arm. She accused Allen of becoming violent and showed the officer the bite mark on her hand, too. The woman accused Allen of pinning her down, but she was able to get away only to have him catch up with her, kicking her in the ribs and trying to smother her, the affidavit said.

Allen was then arrested and charged with second-degree assault and second-degree assault-domestic violence-strangulation charges, both felonies, as well as three simple assault and three domestic violence simple assault charges. He was refused bail and was taken to the count jail. Allen was arranged in Merrimack County Superior Court on Dec. 11, 2023. He is due back in court for a dispositional conference on Feb. 12.

Allen, who was arrested on three felony sex offender registration charges in May 2023, pleaded down to misdemeanors a month before the incident, according to superior court records. He was sentenced to three 12-month sentences, served concurrently, and suspended for three years.

According to the state, Allen was convicted in March 2013 on a single aggravated felonious sexual assault charge against a child in Hillsborough County Superior Court South. He was also convicted on a felony second-degree assault charge in November 2009 and a simple assault charge in May 2020.

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