Murphy North Carolina man charged with sexually assaulting a child

MUPRPHY, North Carolina (WDEF) – 31 year old Robert John Tyndell of Murphy has been charged with Sexual Assaults involving a child.

The investigation began in Macon County last summer.

The complaint in Macon claimed that Tyndell assaulted a child under the age of 12 at a home in Murphy.

A grand jury in Cherokee County indicted him last week on charges of Statutory First Degree Sex Offense of a Child, and two counts of Indecent Liberties with a child.

Sheriff Derrick Palmer stated “We want to thank all the agencies involved in this investigation. As always they are some of the most difficult to deal with. Cooperation is always the key in these types of investigations, and this is an excellent example of cooperation between several agencies getting justice for a very bad crime.”