Concord High School Teacher Faces Assault Charges

A Concord High School social studies teacher will be in court next week after allegedly assaulting his wife last month.

Robert D. McHugh, 38, of Concord, was arrested at 9:50 a.m. on Feb. 19, on two simple assault (personal weapons) charges.

According to a Concord Police arrest report, an officer was assigned to a past tense assault case on West Street earlier in the day with a woman alleging that she was assaulted by her husband, McHugh. The officer wrote in the report that he was familiar with previous situations between the couple.

The woman reported to the police station so the officer could see the fresh scratch on her hand before dropping off a child at school and heading to work.

The officer noted the injury and went to Concord High School to speak with McHugh in the main conference room at the school.

McHugh reportedly told the officer that he went to West Street earlier in the day to remove snow from the driveway at the home where his wife and children are living. He reportedly told the officer that his wife also requested that he clear the snow off the car. He said he did, but she got angry because he hadn’t scraped the windows. The woman then allegedly went to his car, grabbed his backpack, and went back in the house. McHugh reportedly followed her into the house and later left with the children, according to the officer.

There is currently a court order in place that allows McHugh to come to the house and bring the children to school, but he’s not supposed to come in the house, according to the report.

Later, the officer spoke with the woman who alleged that when McHugh arrived, she had already shoveled and there was nothing for him to do. She told him to wait outside while she got the kids dressed.

The woman then told the officer she went to scrape the windows on her car and McHugh allegedly began yelling and swearing at her. She went back in the house but left the scraper outside near her vehicle.

Five minutes later, she went back out and the ice scraper was missing, she stated. She confronted McHugh and he allegedly denied taking it. She went back into the house and came out of the house again, and he allegedly continued to deny taking the ice scraper.

McHugh then allegedly said she could look in his car for it and she did. She opened the door and then, removed his backpack, went into the home and locked the door, according to the report.

McHugh allegedly began to yell and call her names, she stated, so she put the backpack next to the door and told him to come in and pick it up.

McHugh, according to the report, allegedly came into the house, hit the woman, and pushed her into a refrigerator, causing her to fall on the floor. When she got up, he allegedly grabbed her again, she told the officer, before taking the backpack and leaving.

The officer contacted the school resource officer at Concord High School and asked him to request that McHugh turn himself in to police which he later did.

McHugh was processed and later released on $5,000 personal recognizance bail. He is due in court on March 10.

Neither School Superintendent Chris Rath nor Larry Prince, the district’s of human resources, returned an email confirming that McHugh was still teaching at the school or on leave.