By RUSTY DENNEN

The Sept. 28 court-martial of the second soldier accused in the stabbing death of Spc. Morganne McBeth, an Army combat medic from the Fredericksburg area, has again been postponed.

"All courts-martial have been put off until a later date," Staff Sgt. Joshua Ford said yesterday, due to a major deployment at Fort Bragg, N.C., where the soldier, Spc. Nicholas Bailey, and McBeth were stationed.

Headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division is deploying for for a yearlong tour of duty in Afghanistan. Bailey, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, remains on base.

The court-martial originally was scheduled to begin May 21, but was pushed back to later this month at the request of his attorneys.

Bailey, 23, of Texas, is charged with negligent homicide, conspiracy to obstruct justice and giving false statements to investigators.

McBeth's stepmother, Sylvia McBeth of Stafford County, said Monday that the family had heard nothing from the Army about the latest postponement.

"The last email we received said it was going to be on the 26th of this month." She said another person then called to tell them the case would be heard on Sept. 28.

"I called to ask when the date was going to be, and left messages," with the military prosecutor's office, she said. "They're not telling us anything."

The McBeths have complained about miscommunication by the Army in the case, starting almost from the beginning.

In July 2010, the Army initially reported that McBeth, who grew up in Spotsylvania County, died at Al Asad air base in Iraq of wounds sustained in a noncombat-related incident.

The McBeths say they were given conflicting accounts of what happened in the weeks after their daughter's death--that she had accidentally stabbed herself, and that she was accidentally stabbed by another soldier.

Soon after, the Army Criminal Investigation Command confirmed that a homicide investigation was under way.

They would later learn that their daughter was stabbed in the heart the night of July 1, 2010, and died from loss of blood early the following day.