Abuse case dismissed

By STEPHANIE THOMPSON

People Editor

A case involving a father who was accused of burning his six-year-old boy with a cigarette lighter was dismissed.

Robert William McMullan submitted an order to dismiss without prejudice in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James on a felony child abuse charge. The request was granted.

Pursuant to a plea agreement with McMullan’s juvenile case, the case was dismissed without prejudice. Prior to the plea agreement, McMullan and his wife Bree attended a nurturing parenting class offered by the Sweetwater Family Resource Center. They both successfully...