Convicted Child Abuser Now Accused Of Bigamy: Report

LONDONDERRY, NH — A New Hampshire woman who was sentenced to prison on child endangerment charges last year faces new charges in relation to her initial case, according to police. Samantha Grenier, a prisoner at the State Prison for Women in Goffstown, was arrested on Feb. 16, 2018, for bigamy, falsifying physical evidence, and tampering with public or private records. Police in Londonderry began an investigation into claims that Grenier attempted to influence people in order to gain leniency during the sentencing phase of a horrific child abuse case out of Manchester.

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Grenier, who was legally married at the time to another man, allegedly created a false email address and then disguised herself as her attorney, in an attempt to get her boyfriend to marry her, according to Det. Christopher Olson of the Londonderry Police.

“It is alleged that Grenier posed as her lawyer and had a series of email correspondences with her boyfriend that led to him marrying her via a Justice of the Peace at the Londonderry Town Hall,” Olson stated. “Grenier was still legally married at to her current husband at this time.”

She was arrested on Friday, refused bail, and was to be arraigned today.

According to WMUR-TV, Grenier was sentenced to 15 years in prison in October 2017, after her children were found covered in feces and urine with one chained to a crib. Her husband – James Grenier – was sentenced to two sentences of 10 to 20 years, with a mandatory 15 year sentence, for his role in the child endangerment case. The children are in foster case, according to press reports.

Image via Londonderry Police.