Doctor charged with domestic abuse

FAIRFIELD - A local physician was arrested after police said he pushed his wife down the stairs and out of their home and then had his girlfriend and her son move in.

Dr. Sherif Saleh, 34, who has a family medical practice on Main Street in Bridgeport, was charged Wednesday with third-degree assault, risk of injury to a child and disorderly conduct.

He was released after posting $75,000 bond.

Police said the wife complained that she had gotten into an argument with Saleh in their home here when he suddenly shoved her down the stairs. As she fell she collided with their 8-year-old daughter who was on the stairs, police said.

Police said the wife suffered numerous bruises but Saleh forced her out the front door and ordered her not to return.

Shortly thereafter, police said Saleh invited another woman and her 8-year-old son to move into the home, making this new woman the authorized guardian at the victim’s children’s school.

Police said the daughter corroborated her mother’s claims and told officers she had seen her father hit her mother a “thousand times.”