ELDORADO - A man who was wanted in Washington state on a protective order violation has been arrested on charges he physically abused his 5-year-old daughter.

Nikolais Gray Boggess, 24, was picked up around midnight Wednesday at 418 S. 4th in Eldorado, where he lives with his wife and two children, according to Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy Jim Crozier.

Boggess was booked into the Jackson County Jail at 12:53 a.m., charged with willfully or maliciously engaging in child abuse and for violating a protective order originating in Lewis County, Wash.

Sheriff's Deputy Dwayne Mills was the arresting officer.

Crozier, who was at the Eldorado residence this morning, along with personnel from the state Department of Human Services, said that a woman noticed bruising on the 5-year-old girl when she took her own daughter to the restroom while at church Wednesday evening.

The girl was found to have bruising on her buttocks and back, Crozier said.