A Solsberry man was arrested Monday after a pregnant woman went to a hospital for medical treatment and a nurse called the sheriff’s department to report the woman had been battered.

Ethan Robert Thomas, 20, of Solsberry, was arrested by Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy David Elmore on Monday, June 24. When Thomas was booked in after 11 p.m., his bond was set at $10,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. He has since been released after posting bond.

Deputy Elmore responded to Monroe Hospital in Bloomington after an emergency room nurse contacted the sheriff’s department about a patient who was being treated and needed to file a report of domestic battery. The nurse also said the patient was 24 weeks pregnant.

When Deputy Elmore talked to the patient, she said Thomas was the father of her child and they’d both been staying at the home of her family member on Washboard Road. She said Thomas had been texting another woman and they got into an argument and she asked him to leave.

The woman said the verbal argument turned physical when Thomas pushed her and punched her multiple times. She said he also threw unlit fireworks at her which caused injury to her back before Thomas then left the residence and she later went to the hospital.

Deputy Elmore reported the woman had bruises on a wrist, multiple scratches on a leg and both arms, an injury to a knee and a wound on her back.

Elmore then located Thomas at the home of one of his family members. When Thomas was interviewed, he allegedly said he knew the woman was 24 weeks pregnant, that she had started hitting him and that he’d pushed her during an effort to collect his belongings so he could leave. He said she wouldn’t move out of his way. He did admit he threw a pack of bottle rockets at her.

A family member who was present during the interview said Thomas had told him the same thing.

Thomas is scheduled to appear in Greene Circuit Court for an initial hearing on July 8 when he will be formally charged with domestic battery with bodily injury to a pregnant woman, a Level 5 felony.