<div id="subtitle">Superintendent: 4 Mass. boys charged in immigrant beating can't return to school</div><div><p>A ruling says four boys accused of severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant will remain indefinitely suspended from school, but they'll receive tutoring.</p><p>Lynn Superintendent Catherine Latham said in the ruling Wednesday that the boys will be part of a program for ill or injured students. The boys won't be tutored at a school building.</p><p>Six boys, ages 11 to 14, were charged with beating 30-year-old Damian Merida in July with bricks and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks. Police say Merida was targeted because of his ethnicity. He's in rehabilitation for a head injury.</p><p>The boys pleaded not delinquent to juvenile charges, including armed assault to murder. The 14-year-old is in state juvenile custody and another was slated to attend private school.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=58959920&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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