A family is complaining that their 11-year-old son was paddled excessively as punishment for fighting at his private school, according to Channel 2 Action News.
"I don't know how to explain it. So brutal," Desmond Omigie told Channel 2 about being spanked by a leader at Hope Christian Academy in Jonesboro.
Desmond said he got into a fight on the basketball court at the school and punched another student in the nose.
The school enforces corporal punishment and Robert Taylor, the pastor of the church that runs the school, spanked him, he told Channel 2.
"Before he spanked me, he said, 'I'm going to beat you until I get tired," Desmond told Channel 2.
The pastor told Channel 2 that he followed procedures when spanking the fifth grader, and that those are procedures that parents permit.
But the boy's mother, Patricia Omigie, told Channel 2 that injuries to Desmond's backside prompted her to take him to the doctor and to file a police report indicating the spanking was excessive.
The family is now calling for a thorough investigation, according to Channel 2.
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