MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) — A McCook man accused of abusing his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son has been given a year of probation.

Online court records say 39-year-old James Clermont was sentenced June 6 in Red Willow County District Court. He’d pleaded no contest 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 son was found to have bruises and abrasions on his back. Authorities say the injuries resulted from Clermont punishing the boy for wetting his pants.