A Texas man, aged 52, faces allegations of extreme abuse towards his grandchildren, with accusations of whipping, slamming their hands on tables, and physically tackling them.

Cody Wayne Ainsworth was apprehended last week and now confronts three charges of injuring a child.

The probe into Ainsworth’s actions commenced after the Bruceville-Eddy Police Department reacted to a 911 call on November 19. The call, which reported potential child abuse, directed officers to a home on the 600 block of First Street in Waco, about 100 miles from Dallas, as noted by CBS affiliate KWTX reported.

Upon their arrival, police engaged with a woman identified as Ainsworth’s stepdaughter, who is also the mother of the grandchildren involved. She disclosed that a recent argument had erupted between her and Ainsworth concerning his harsh discipline of the children.

She recounted a particularly troubling episode involving her 7-year-old son. While the boy was taking a bath, he used some of Ainsworth’s body wash to create extra bubbles. This act enraged Ainsworth, who allegedly forced the child’s hand onto a kitchen table and repeatedly hit it against the surface, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The mother claimed the hand-beating was a typical punishment administered by Ainsworth.

The affidavit also included allegations from the mother claiming that Ainsworth regularly used profanity and other “adult language” when addressing the children, particularly threatening them with physical violence, Waco Fox affiliate KWKT reported.

Ainsworth’s wife, the children’s grandmother, then provided investigators with a series of recordings in which Ainsworth allegedly threatened the boys. In one of the recordings, the grandmother can be heard scolding her husband for his treatment of the grandkids.

“I’m tired of you treating them like they are f—ing dogs,” she said in the recording, per KWTX. “You talk to them like they are grown a— people, instead of like children. Do you know that is child abuse?”

The recordings also included Ainsworth saying the following:

• “If you look off one more time, you’re getting whooped.”
• “Touch that remote one more time, and you ain’t got to worry about TV no more.”
• “Let me catch you go through that door with one more piece of [expletive] food, you won’t be able to [expletive] eat no more, because I will make sure you can’t eat.”
• “I’ll [expletive] kick your a—.”
• “I don’t give a [expletive] if you gotta p—. You will wait until you get up in the morning. You can p— all over yourself. I don’t give a [expletive].”

As the investigation continued, a school nurse told police that she spoke to one of the little boys, who claimed that he hurt his back when “Grandpa Cody” tackled him.

Additionally, a teacher for one of the kids had kept track of his “multiple physical discomforts,” documenting the injuries “weekly,” which included injuries to his “stomach, feet, cheek, chin, and elbows,” among other things.

During forensic interviews with the victims, the 4-year-old boy reportedly told authorities he was scared of Ainsworth, who he said had “used a belt to give him a whooping on his stomach.”

Ainsworth was being held in the McLennan County Jail on $150,000 bond. Records show he bonded out at some point after his arrest. It was not immediately clear when he was scheduled to appear in court.