A Tennessee man punished his teenage son for drinking by forcing him to drink straight, hard liquor until the teenager passed out. The man's son was taken to a hospital and the father was arrested for child abuse and neglect.

The incident occurred on Saturday during the Tennessee football game. The father, 35-year-old Mark Allen Hughes, caught his 15-year-old son drinking at a gathering in the east Tennessee town of Sweetwater, according to WBIR.

In an attempt to teach his son a lesson on the evils of underage drinking, he forced his son to partake in a drinking game with him, reports KSDK. However, the father did not truly understand the strengths of alcohol and his son's unfamiliarity with it, which led to the boy drinking so much he passed out.

Witnesses to the incident had seen how it started when the father began the drinking game, explains WBIR, but they left. When they returned, they discovered the teenager unconscious and Hughes drunk and belligerent.

The witnesses tried to remove the teenager and take him to the hospital but Hughes began fighting with them.

They managed to place the unconscious teenager in the back seat of a car and called police. When officers arrived, Hughes continued to attack the witnesses and he had to be retrained by the officers. The police officers performed CPR on the unconscious teenager because his pulse had stopped. He was later airlifted via Lifestar to the Children's Hospital in Knoxville.

Police arrested Hughes and have charged him with aggravated child abuse and neglect as well as contributing to the delinquency of a child.

The teenager has been released from the hospital and is the custody of his grandmother, who says he is doing better.

Hughes is being held on a $25,000 bond and will appear in court on September 23.