HARTINGTON – It’s on to district court for a northeast Nebraska mayor accused of sexual assault.
Randolph mayor Dwayne Schutt waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Cedar County Court in Hartington on Wednesday.
Schutt was arrested in July after an investigator alleged that he sexually assaulted a girl over a two-year period beginning in 2011 when she was 13 years old. Among the allegations are that Schutt laid on top of the girl, tried to take her clothes off and touched her inappropriately.
Schutt will enter his plea at his district court arraignment, which was scheduled for September 25th.
He faces four counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of child abuse. If convicted of all five counts he could spend up to 25 years in prison.
