Tenn. — (WBIR) A Tennessee man was arrested Saturday after officials said he forced his 15-year-old son to drink alcohol until he passed out.
Several people at the home said the teen’s father, 35-year-old Mark Allen Hughes, forced his son to play a drinking game with him while watching the Tennessee football game on Saturday.
Witnesses told police that Hughes made his son play the game after he caught the 15-year-old drinking. Some of the witnesses then left the home, but when they came back, the teen was lying unresponsive on the kitchen floor.
Hughes started fighting with the people in the house when they tried to take the boy to the hospital, so they put the 15-year-old in the back of a car and called police.
Officers said the boy had no pulse when they arrived, so they performed CPR until EMS arrived. Lifestar flew the teen to Children’s Hospital Hospital in Knoxville for treatment.
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