DALLAS – A West Texas father faces a felony charge after giving his son a spanking.
The 8-year-old boy was allegedly spanked for missing a goal in a soccer match. A probable cause affidavit stated the marks “were consistent with being hit with a belt.” The boy told investigators his father hit him ten to twenty times.
The Odessa American reports thirty-one year old Carlos Jesus Vasquez, was charged with injury to a child, after the boy’s great-grandmother found several dark red welts on the boy’s buttocks.
The boy’s father was arrested and admitted that he did use too much force. He was released from jail on a $15,000 bond.
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