A Texas woman is facing jail time after she beat her teenage son with an electrical cord after catching him in bed with another man.

Erica Moore, of Forest Hill, said one night she opened her 15-year-old son’s bedroom door to discover he was not alone, and her teenage male cousin was in the room with him.

CBS-DFW reports as she walked in, she saw her 18-year-old cousin giving oral sex to her 15-year-old son.

‘I started whooping my son, and I’m the one who got in trouble as a result of me whooping him,’ she said.

‘When I walked in I saw my son, it was just disgusting to me, the way he was looking and my cousin was looking, and my cousin immediately ran out the door.

‘And I’m like what the? You know, is you serious? So that was my reaction because it disgusted me.’

Moore admits she struck her son with an electrical cord because it’s a form of discipline she was taught, and says she does not believe in homosexuality.

‘The police department told me it was consensual, but that was committing a homosexual act in my house and we are totally against that. So I whopped my son and about three or four months later they came and arrested me for abuse,’ she said.

Forest Hill Police say Moore went too far in her ‘discipline’, causing bleeding and leaving marks on the boy’s thighs, forearms, hands, torso and back.

Police were alerted after the boy’s grandmother took him to the hospital to treat his injuries.

Moore claims the officer who arrived to arrest her understood why she beat her son and he would have gone even further.

She said: ‘Even that day when the police officer came out here, he told me out of his own mouth, “If It was me and I walked in on my child,” he said, “parent to parent I probably would have shot him. I probably would have shot both of them.”

‘He said but with the law you can’t, you’re not allowed to put whoops on him. He said you can whoop him but you’re not allowed to leave any marks on him.’

Forest Hill Police Chief denies the officer made the statements, claiming it was recorded. He said the officer’s conduct was entirely professional and the department does not discriminate against gay people.

Moore claims she would have done the same thing if she caught her daughter in a sexual act with another boy.

Saying she is well within her rights to discipline her son, Moore said: ‘I actually caught this going on in my house so how was I supposed to react to it?

‘I supposed to just let it go? No! We was taught to discipline our kids and we whoop our kids.’