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Man Charged With Assaulting Child

By: Associated Press
Updated: Fri 5:12 PM, Jun 29, 2012

A 20-year-old man has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend's 4-year-old son whose family says was found dead under a porch at the mid-Michigan Indian reservation where they live.

Anthony Bennett is charged in a federal criminal complaint Friday in Bay City.

Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night at a vigil for Carnel Chamberlain near Mount Pleasant at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's reservation, where he had lived with his mother and Bennett. He was reported missing June 21 while in the care of Bennett, while his mother was at work.

For days, investigators searched woods, ponds and the tribe's wastewater treatment areas to no avail. Family spokesman Kevin Chamberlain said Carnel's body was discovered on Thursday.

Bennett is not charged in Carnel's death


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