Graphic Testimony Heard in Alleged Sexual Assault Hearing

Family court judge to decide if two men who were underage at the time of the alleged incident should be tried as adults.

The waiver hearing to determine if two Morristown men—juveniles at the time of an alleged sexual assault in 2011—can be tried as adults began Thursday with detailed and at times graphic descriptions of the alleged incident. The two men, along with 19-year-old Tyrec Phillips—an adult at the time of the alleged incident who has appeared in adult criminal court—are accused of giving a 17-year-old girl something to drink at a Hazel Street home in September 2011 that caused her to fall in and out of consciousness. The three then allegedly drove the unconscious girl to a secluded spot on Monroe Street, near Evergreen Cemetery, where they are accused of having sex with her. Phillips was released Sept. 21 from jail on $100,000 bail—reduced from an…

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