Monday, Aug. 29, 2016

COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- A Columbia County Deputy has been terminated and arrested accused of cruelty to children.

Aaron Price, 32, admitted to his wife to spanking his step-son who he said got a bad report from his first grade teacher, according to an incident report filed on Aug. 26.

Price and his wife discussed punishment for the child and said a possible spanking. His wife was not concerned when she heard her son cry out because she thought he was just being spanked. According to the incident report, Price's wife later said she learned her son was hit with a brown plastic clothing hanger after her mother, the boy's grandmother, mentioned she noticed a visible injury to the boy's lower back and buttocks.

The boy's mother is also a Columbia County Deputy who filed the report. Aaron Price's bond has been set at $25 thousand. He was employed at the Columbia County Sheriff's Office on Sept. 17, 2010.