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Assault charge dropped in boy’s fatal beating

Jan 29, 2012, 8:51 PM

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) – A Massachusetts judge has dismissed assault charges against the fiancee of a man accused of fatally beating his 7-year-old son on Father’s Day 2009.

The judge said there was insufficient evidence to pursue assault charges against 31-year-old Tiffany Hyman, who still awaits trial on charges of reckless endangerment and being an accessory after the fact.

Prosecutors say Hyman failed to intervene when Leslie Schuler allegedly inflicted a fatal beating on his 7-year-old son on June 23, 2009. The boy, Nathaniel Turner, had come to Massachusetts from his home in Eufaula, Ala., about a month earlier to spend the summer with his father.

The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester reports (
http://bit.ly/A2j5Av) a judge has approved an attorney’s request for separate trials for Hyman and Schuler. No trial dates have been set.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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