A 31-year-old Odessa man has been charged with injury to a child after he reportedly spanked his 8-year-old son with a belt for missing a goal during a soccer match.

Carlos Jesus Vasquez, 2514 N. Muskingum Ave., was released Thursday from the Ector County Detention Center on a $15,000 bond.

On Wednesday, the grandmother of the 8-year-old made a report with the Odessa Police Department that her grandson had been spanked by Vasquez for missing a goal during a soccer match, a news release from OPD showed.

The grandmother told Odessa police in a probable cause affidavit that the boy was visiting his great-grandmother, who took him into the bathroom and found he had several dark red welts on his buttocks, which police said were “consistent with being hit with a belt."

The boy was interviewed at Harmony Home Child Advocacy Center, the affidavit reported, at which point he said his father hit him 10 to 20 times with the belt for missing a goal during the game.

In an interview with OPD officials that same day, Vasquez admitted to hitting the child about five or six times, adding he “knew he had used excessive force,” the release showed. Vasquez was later charged with the third-degree felony.

The boy’s mother was also there, she told police in the affidavit, and reported that she saw Vasquez spank the boy five to six times.

However, the woman said when Vasquez continued to spank the boy, she threatened to call police if he didn’t stop. He stopped, but the mother said she did not report the spanking to police because “he began to come towards her in a threatening manner and ... she is scared of Vasquez.”