ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Henry County pastor is behind bars Sunday after allegedly beating his son with an extension cord.

Officers with the Stockbridge Police Department responded to Creekside Christian Academy in Newnan on Nov. 10 for a reported child abuse incident. There, they met with the school’s principal, who told them they asked the child about a blood stain on their pants.

The child told him, “My dad called himself disciplining me,” and said he had hit him with an extension cord at home because he had in-school suspension. The child’s father, Kenneth McFarland, was arrested and charged with cruelty to children in the 2nd degree.

The church McFarland worked for dismissed him on Nov. 18.

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