Elton Turner is out of jail, released on condition he have no contact with the handicapped person he is alleged to have assaulted and raped.

District Court Judge Scott Etheridge reduced Turner's bond from $50,000 to $5,000 Wednesday afternoon acting on a request from Turner's lawyer. Turner retained Southern Pines attorney Bruce Cunningham. Assistant District Attorney Warren McSweeney represented the state.

As conditions of the bond reduction, Turner consented to an extension of a domestic violence order for one year and to have no contact with the prosecuting witness. Turner had been arrested Tuesday on warrants based on an investigation by Detective Lt. William Mackey of the Moore County Sheriff's Department.

After his arrest, Turner appeared before Magistrate Robert F. Wagner. The magistrate originally ordered Turner held for a May 18 court hearing on two counts of assault and battery on a handicapped person and two counts of second degree rape.

Wagner found "probable cause to believe" Turner committed the assaults. He found probable cause in the two second degree rape counts to believe Turner "did carnally know and abuse" the victim "who was at the time physically helpless" according to court documents.

Turner's name is not on the jail list for Thursday, April 30.