N.C. man indicted on sexual assault charges involving 7-year-old boy

A North Carolina man has been indicted by an Horry County grand jury on charges he sexually assaulted a 7-year-old boy last summer, according to court records.

Nathan Elisha Tyler, 19, of Clarendon, N.C., was indicted on charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and lewd act on a minor, according to indictments released Tuesday.

Tyler is being held at J. Reuben Long Detention Center on $35,000 bond since his arrest on Oct. 3, according to jail records.

The charges stemmed from on Aug.25 when a 36-year-old woman reported to police that her 7-year-old son may have been sexually assaulted between Aug.1 and Aug.5, according to a police report.

The woman stated that on Aug.21, she was putting up a horse fence with the help of some neighborhood children when at one point during the day, the children told their mother that the woman’s 7-year-old son had come over to them and asked if he could perform a sexual act on them.

The woman stated that the children and their mother came to her and told her what her son had said, according to the report.

The woman then told one of the children to go ask her son where he had heard that.

The child came back and stated that the 7-year-old said Tyler had told him about it, and that Tyler had performed the act on him and vice versa.

The woman talked to her son the next day and he said that the incident happened during the day when his mother went to the store and left him with Tyler and his 18-year-old sister.

Tyler had moved out of the house prior to the boy telling about the incident.