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Shaleah N. Kauffman, left, is pictured with one of her attorneys, Anshul Banga, and Douglas County Judge Sally Pokorny on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.

A Douglas County woman with two previous domestic battery convictions has been ordered to stand trial for a third violent incident.

In the most recent case, Shaleah N. Kauffman is facing felony domestic battery and aggravated battery charges after a man testified on Tuesday that Kauffman drunkenly attacked him two separate times in the fall of 2023.

The man testified that the first attack occurred early in the morning on Oct. 21, 2023, after Kauffman had been drinking at a bar. He said Kauffman threw a metal pan at him, came at him with a knife, punched him, bit him and ripped his hair out, all while he was holding a baby.

The second incident occurred about a month later, he testified, when Kauffman again went out drinking, came home and violently attacked him, this time in front of multiple children, which he said “traumatized and terrified” them. The man said Kauffman hit and punched him, forcing him to fall to the ground, where she proceeded to drag him by his hair. During this incident, he said, he sustained a broken ankle. Kauffman then took the man’s cellphone and drove away, but she wrecked her car almost immediately, he testified; she then returned, took the keys to his truck and left, he said.

Before the man testified, prosecutor Todd Hiatt submitted evidence that Kauffman has two previous convictions in Douglas County for domestic battery from 2019 and 2022.

Kauffman is also facing misdemeanor charges of endangering a child, theft, criminal damage to property and violation of a protective order. She had two attorneys representing her Tuesday: Michael Clarke for the felony charges and Anshul Banga for the misdemeanors.

Judge Sally Pokorny scheduled Kauffman’s trial for June 1.