MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) — A McCook man has taken a plea deal in a child abuse case involving his girlfriend’s young son.

Online court records say 39-year-old James Clermont is scheduled to be sentenced June 6 in Red Willow County District Court. He’d pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of negligent child abuse, no injury. Prosecutors had lowered the charge from felony intentional child abuse, no injury.

Clermont was accused after his girlfriend’s 5-year-old boy was found to have bruises and abrasions on his back. Authorities say the injuries resulted from Clermont punishing the boy for wetting his pants.