A man accused of being married to four women has pleaded guilty to bigamy – but will avoid jail time if he behaves for the next five years.
Holly Ramer
April 29 2019 8:31 PM
A man accused of being married to four women has pleaded guilty to bigamy – but will avoid jail time if he behaves for the next five years.
Michael Middleton, 43, married a Georgia woman in 2006, an Alabama woman in 2011 and a New Hampshire woman in 2013. That led to the bigamy charge in New Hampshire, but according to court documents, he also married a fourth woman in Kentucky in 2016.
Prosecutors in New Hampshire say he used the marriages to gain access to the women’s assets.
In court on Monday, Assistant Strafford County Attorney Michael Rotman read a statement from Middleton’s New Hampshire wife, Alicia Grant, who blamed Middleton for her transformation from a compassionate person to someone with a “not-my-problem” attitude.
She said she was “satisfied” that he was facing consequences for his actions.
“When we got married six years ago, what I thought I had found in him was a life partner, someone that I could face life’s ups and downs with, someone my children could look up to,” Ms Grant wrote.
“Instead I got six years of pain and misery as I tried to free myself from the prison of his lies and manipulations.”
Middleton was arrested in Ohio in February. He also has faced domestic violence charges in Maine.
