MASON COUNTY, W. Va. (WSAZ) -- Mason County Deputies arrested a man after they say he hit a six-year-old for eating the last breadstick.

Deputies arrested Benjamin Lucas Boster, 36 of Southside, at his home on Kanawha Valley Road around 9 p.m Friday evening.

Deputies say the child's father picked up his son from his mom's house when he noticed bruises on the son's body. When he asked his son what happened, his son told him Boster smacked him in the face and slammed his head against the wall for eating the last breadstick.

The child also told his father that Boster has hit him in the past.

Boster was arrested and is charged with child abuse causing injury. He is being held at the Western Regional Jail.