By Matt Lynch/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Jun 25, 2008 @ 12:01 AM
Last update Jun 25, 2008 @ 12:18 AM
MARLBOROUGH —
A New Hampshire woman charged in the death of a local teenager avoided a jail sentence in 2004, claiming mental and physical problems after pleading guilty to abusing her adopted children when living at a Mendon farm.
Mary Corbett was indicted last week by a Cheshire (N.H.) Superior Court grand jury in the death of 17-year-old Travis DeSimone of Marlborough, Mass. DeSimone died last summer when a concrete wall fell and crushed him while working on Corbett's Marlborough, N.H., farm.
According to Milford District Court records, Corbett has previously pleaded guilty to beating her adopted children while living in Massachusetts.
In February 2004, she was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with the balance of her six-month sentence suspended, after pleading guilty to charges she beat her three adopted children - sometimes with a belt.
The sentence was revised on March 31, 2004, and the 30-day jail stint was dropped, according to court records.
Corbett suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional distress, emotional and psychological issues and suffers chest pains and trauma when in handcuffs or isolated in close places, according to motion filed in 2004 by her attorney, Joseph Lussier.
Corbett was arrested in January 2003 by Mendon Police on charges including assault and battery on a child with injury and assault and battery with dangerous weapon in a string of incidents from July 2002 to January 2003.
Court records were not clear on the disposition of Corbett's case, but Lussier said news reports she spent time in jail are "inaccurate." He declined to comment further.
Corbett is scheduled to be arraigned this morning in Cheshire Superior Court in Keene, N.H. She can only be convicted of either manslaughter or negligent homicide. If convicted of manslaughter, she faces a maximum of 30 years in prison.
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