Barry Lyndon Needham, 46, of Chester, Ark., was charged Friday with the felony.
On July 8 a Sequoyah County Sheriff's deputy was dispatched to Muldrow about a domestic violence report. When Deputy Lance Yoakum arrived, he met with a woman who alleged that her husband, Needham, had just beaten her 14-year-old son.
The son was there and Yoakum reported that he could see the son had a ripped shirt.
The boy told police that Needham and his sister had an argument and the sister ran off. He said that Needham then came after him and grabbed him and threw him on the ground. The boy also said his father began pushing him.
The teen told police that he took off running and at that time his back was cut on a fence.
Yoakum went to the home where Needham was, and Needham allegedly told police that the incident did not happen.
He was arrested and taken to the Sequoyah County Jail in Sallisaw.
