JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville man was recently arrested after police said he seriously beat his 13-year-old son while the boy was at school on the Westside.

Henry Crimes, a Paxon Middle School student's father, is charged with child abuse.

Crimes' seventh-grade son allegedly was beaten with a belt. A police report states that after the attack the boy was shaking and had a large cut above his eye, a swollen arm and bruises.

According to the police report, the boy's gym teacher, Aaron Jackson, told Crimes to come to Paxon and bring a belt.

The police report says Crimes told investigators, "Coach Jackson sent a child with his key to open the door so I could beat my child for misbehaving. I hit my son with the belt about twice and he fell down. I told him to get up. When he got up, I hit him some more, then he fell again. When my son got up again, I hit him a few more times, then I made him go to Coach Jackson to apologize …"

Crimes was arrested and Jackson has been removed from the classroom while the incident is investigated.

"We're hosting an internal investigation here at DCPS as well as the sheriff's office is conducting an investigation of their own for any criminal intent that might have happened at the school," said Jill Johnson of Duval County Public Schools.

The 13-year-old was placed in the custody of a child protective investigator.