BY TANYA BRICKING
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Mairaliz Soto and Nathaniel Gresham married Oct. 14.
Two days later, Ms. Soto-Gresham returned home from work to find her 4-year-old son with burns from the bathtub at their English Woods apartment. Her new husband has been charged.
When Ms. Soto-Gresham returned home from her job as a data-entry clerk that day, Mr. Gresham told her the boy was burned in the bathtub. The burns turned to blisters, and by the end of the weekend, the couple admitted him to Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Mr. Gresham is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center in lieu of a $200,000 cash bond, accused of burning the boy as punishment for soiling his pants. He was charged with felonious assault and child endangering.
Antonio Pruitt Jr. is recovering at Shriners Burns Institute from second- and third-degree burns to his legs.
Detectives suspected the burns were more than an accident after the boy told them, "I went potty in my pants and Nate took me by the head and put me in the tub," according to court documents.
Mr. Gresham, who listed his occupation on his marriage license as a fabricator, had outstanding warrants for an arrest on theft charges.
