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Deal settles remaining Zieroff charges

By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Writer | Apr 18, 2019

MANCHESTER – Gregory Zieroff, the Hudson man imprisoned last week as part of a plea deal on domestic violence charges, has entered another plea agreement that settles the five charges that were pending in Hillsborough County Superior Court-North.

Zieroff, 34, a construction worker who most recently lived in Hudson, was sentenced April 8 in Superior Court South in Nashua to a term of two to seven years in State Prison, with credit for nearly a year of time already served, upon pleading guilty to two felony counts of domestic violence-related stalking.

He also pleaded guilty to two additional domestic violence charges, for which he was sentenced to a prison term of two to four years, all suspended for seven years, and one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest or detention, for which he received a 12-month suspended jail sentence.

The charges accused Zieroff of perpetrating what prosecutors and the victim’s family members described as a prolonged, violent series of attacks upon his then-girlfriend.

While Zieroff pleaded guilty to five charges, prosecutors agreed as part of the plea deal to drop 11 additional charges Zieroff originally faced.

The girlfriend lived with Zieroff in Hudson at the time of the assaults. In early March, she was shot and killed as she and another man fled a disturbance at a Manchester bar.

Four family members of the victim attended Zieroff’s hearing in the Nashua court, two of whom chose to address the court.

Zieroff has no known connection to the fatal shooting, which claimed the life of the 34-year-old woman, with whom Zieroff was said to have a child.

As for the five charges that were settled this week in Superior Court North, Zieroff agreed to plead guilty to one count each of reckless conduct, a felony, and disobeying an officer, a misdemeanor, in exchange for a deferred State Prison sentence and a suspended jail sentence, according to his case summary.

The three other charges – one count each of robbery and felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, both felonies, and one misdemeanor count of disobeying an officer – were dropped as part of the agreement.

The terms of the agreements reached in the Superior Court South and Superior Court North cases include orders that Zieroff pay $2,275 in restitution to the victim’s estate, and that he follow all recommendations for counseling, treatment or education programs while in prison.

At the sentencing hearing in Superior Court South, the two women who addressed the court told Judge Charles Temple that Zieroff abused the victim “repeatedly from the beginning of their relationship … it continued until he was incarcerated, and (was) unable to harm her,” one of the women said.

Both lamented that because the victim “isn’t here to speak of the abuse and represent herself,” Zieroff “is not … answering to (additional) charges he should be answering to.”

While the victim reported numerous injuries Zieroff was accused of inflicting on her, there were still others “she did not report,” including “numerous concussions, broken bones … attempts to physically abort her son” before she gave birth to the child who is now about 18 months old.

In response, Temple told the women their loved one “would be very proud of both of you for giving her a voice in the courtroom today.”

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256, dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com, or @Telegraph_DeanS.

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