YORK, Neb. (AP) — A York man accused of using a sandal to spank a 4-year-old girl has been given two years of probation.

Online court records say 23-year-old Luis Rodriguez-Olvera was sentenced Monday. He’d pleaded no contest to misdemeanor negligent child abuse after prosecutors lowered the charge from a felony.

Investigators say Rodriguez-Olvera was taking care of his fiancee’s daughter on Aug. 8 last year while her mother was at work.

Court documents say Rodriguez-Olvera acknowledged spanking the girl, striking her six or seven times with the sandal, because she was “acting up or misbehaving.”