A 70-year-old man beat his 95-year-old mother until she had two black eyes and apparent marks on her arms and legs, Alabama authorities say.

John Earl Black has been charged by the Lee County Sheriff's Office with second-degree elder abuse , according to a press release.

He was booked into the Lee County Detention Center on Tuesday and held on a $30,000 bond.

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Two days before, at about 8 a.m., a man approached sheriff's deputies on patrol in the 9000 block of Lee Road 240 in the area of Phenix City, authorities say.

The reason for his contact?

"His brother assault[ed] his mother," the police department alleges.

The law enforcement officers saw th

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