Charges Dropped For Mom's Boyfriend In Roadside Baby Case

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against the boyfriend of a Maryland woman charged with leaving her weeks-old daughter on the side of a road.

The Capital reports that Anne Arundel County prosecutors dropped second-degree assault charges against Cordell Hall on Thursday. Charging documents stated that Sandra McClary told investigators that Hall pushed her when she got lost on the way to a party on July Fourth. After an argument, McClary said she drove off without Hall and the baby, who was found an hour later.

Prosecutors say they dropped Hall's charges because McClary, invoking the Fifth Amendment, wouldn't testify and no one else can corroborate her account.

Police said the infant was in McClary's care when she was left. She was charged with child neglect and reckless endangerment.

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