Pamela Smart Brings Assault Charges

Pamela Smart, the New Hampshire teacher convicted of seducing a student into killing her husband, told police two inmates attacked her because she told prison officials about their affair. Smart is pressing assault charges against the two women for the 1996 attack, in which she suffered a fractured eye socked requiring plastic surgery. Smart is imprisoned in White Plains, N.Y., because New Hampshire has no maximum-security prison for women. Smart, 30, is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole. Her husband was shot to death in 1990. William Flynn, Smart’s 16-year-old student and lover, pleaded guilty to murder and testified that she helped plan the killing. The case spawned several books and movies, including “To Die For.”