Former Concord teacher Howie Leung charged with sexual assault in New Hampshire

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Howie Leung, a former Concord teacher serving prison time in Massachusetts for sexually assaulting a Concord student during a summer program there, will face new sexual assault charges in New Hampshire, Concord police and Merrimack County Attorney Paul Halvorsen announced Thursday.
Prosecutors allege Leung, who worked as a special education teacher at Rundlett Middle School and Concord High from 2006 to 2019, repeatedly sexually assaulted the same student in Concord that he plead guilty to raping in Massachusetts.

The assaults in Concord allegedly occurred from 2014 to 2016, starting when the girl was 12 or 13, according to court records.
The new charges, which had long been speculated, open a new chapter in the Leung scandal, which rocked the Concord School District when the teacher was arrested in 2019 and led to the resignations of former superintendent Terri Forsten and principal Tom Sica.
Though an investigator concluded the sexual relationship between Leung and the student, who has spoken publicly about what she endured, began in Concord, the criminal case proceeded in Massachusetts because the charges were stronger there, Concord Deputy Chief John Thomas previously told the Monitor.

Thomas and Halvorsen, the Merrimack County Attorney, both declined to comment on Friday. The state’s public defender’s office, which is representing Leung, did not respond to a request for comment.
Leung is currently serving a six- to seven-year sentence at a state prison in Gardner, Massachusetts after pleading guilty to two child rape counts last July. Those rapes occurred at the Fessenden School in Newton, Massachusetts during a summer program where Leung worked and the student served as an unpaid assistant.

“He would take students from up here in Concord to go down there to help with the program,” Concord police Lt. Sean Ford said following Leung’s arraignment on the Massachusetts charges in 2019.

The 39-count indictment announced Thursday alleges that Leung kissed the student and touched her breasts during the fall or winter of the 2014-15 school year, while she was a student at Rundlett. The bulk of the charges involve repeated digital penetration and oral sex during the summer of 2015.
Leung is also charged with attempting to get another student to lie during the investigation in late 2018 or 2019 and for deleting files on his electronic devices.

“The district is grateful to the Concord Police Department and the Merrimack County Attorney’s Office for their continued investigation and effort to seek justice for the egregious actions of former teacher Howie Leung,” Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy wrote in a statement.
Murphy wrote that the district has since “enacted policies, procedures and practices to ensure something like this will not happen.”
Leung is scheduled to be arraigned on the new charges on Oct. 7 in Merrimack County Superior Court.

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Leung, ex-Concord teacher convicted of rape in Mass., now faces NH charges

A Merrimack County grand jury has returned indictments against Primo “Howie” Leung, the former Concord resident and teacher sentenced to a maximum of seven years in prison in Massachusetts last year after he was convicted of raping a teenager.
Merrimack County Attorney Paul Halvorsen, along with Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood, announced the new indictments Thursday afternoon.
While the charges weren’t specifically listed, Leung, 41, faces “multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses alleging conduct from 2014 to 2019,” a press release said.

In the Massachusetts case, Leung initially pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference, aggravated indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14 and two counts of aggravated indecent assault and battery on a person age 14 or older. The victim was 13 and 14 years old when the incidents occurred.
In May 2023, Leung accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to lesser charges, though still felonious sexual assault.

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Former NH teacher who pleaded guilty to child rape in Massachusetts faces new charges

A former special education teacher from Concord has been indicted on dozens of sexual assault charges in New Hampshire.
Primo "Howie" Leung, 41, was sentenced to six to seven years in prison last year after pleading guilty to child rape in Massachusetts. Just fourteen months later, he is now being charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses that allege misconduct in New Hampshire from 2014 to 2019.

Former New Hampshire senior assistant attorney general said it’s not uncommon for victims of sexual assault to bring charges forward later in life.
“Sometimes with children, they don’t realize what’s happening to them is wrong because it's all they know, so they have no reason to disclose it until later in life,” Jesse O’Neill from Mclane Middleton Law Firm.
Leung pleaded guilty in July 2023 to child rape and indecent assault and battery on a child. The plea deal reduced the charges from aggravated rape of a child.
Fabiana McLeod, the sexual assault survivor, who previously spoke with News 9, told the court she agreed to the plea deal because she and her family wanted to close the door on the case after several years and finally move on. She was 13 years old at the time of the assault.

Prosecutors in that case said Leung was a special education teacher at Rundlett Middle School and Concord High School when he invited McLeod, then a middle school student, to be a volunteer helper at a summer camp at the Fessenden School in Newton, Massachusetts.
Investigators said Leung assaulted her at the camp and continued the assaults the following summer at the same camp.
It has been more than a year since Concord police told News 9 they would consider filing charges against Leung in New Hampshire. The new charges are being filed through the Merrimack County Attorney's Office and the Concord Police Department.
“In general, the state typically can’t use somebody’s prior convictions to prove their guilt in a new charge,” O’Neill said.
Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill in July 2020 making it illegal for adults in the state's school system to have sexual relationships with students.

Despite several of the new offenses allegedly happening past New Hampshire’s six-year statute of limitations, O’Neill said there are exceptions to sexual assault cases involving a minor.
“In those cases, the statute of limitations doesn’t begin to run until the minor turns 18 years old, and then it runs for 22 years after the 18th birthday. So, basically, until the victim is 40 years old,” O’Neill said.
The New Hampshire court will schedule an arraignment.

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Getting charged for extra cases when you're already in prison just because it was in a different state, but with the same person seems pretty unfair. An ongoing sexual relationship with a minor in various states should count more as a single infraction, rather than each sexual act being tallied separately.