ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Central Florida woman is accused of keeping her 12-year-old son chained in an outside shed and beating him with a hammer, cans, metal poles and other items.

"The mother was abusing this child," Orange County sheriff's representative Carlos Padilla said. "She was chasing him with scissors, chains, bottles, belts and anything she could really use as a weapon."

Investigators said the boy had a multitude of thick, irregular linear- and loop-shaped scars over most of his body.

They said he also had numerous marks on his back, face, abdomen and head.

After several interviews, officials said the boy confessed that his mother beat him with belts, cords, cans and glass bottles and struck him on the head with a knife. He said his mother also chased him with scissors and chained him in a bathroom and beat him with a metal pipe, according to investigators.

During questioning, the child also told investigators that his mother would keep him chained in the shed or in a bathroom.

The boy's father was arrested for doing nothing to stop the attacks, police said.

"The father was apparently aware," Padilla said. "According to the child, the father would get very upset with the mother whenever he saw the kid had been abused. And he would bring it to her attention. But that is about as far as he went. He really didn't do anything else to protect the child."

"No child deserves that type of treatment no matter what they do," Padilla said.

Local 6 News did not identify the boy's parents.

The woman was charged with aggravated child abuse and her husband was charged with child neglect.

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