A Maryville man has been sentenced to probation after a fight that sent his elderly father to the hospital

Ronald Coy, 62 was sentenced to serve 5 years of supervised probation Monday in Nodaway County on a felony charge for first-degree Elder Abuse for beating his 87-year-old father.

As we previously reported, court documents state that Coy caused physical injury to his father by striking and/or kicking about his body causing bleeding, an injury to his jaw that may require surgery to insert a metal plate, and an injury, pain, or discomfort to his kidney-area of his back.

“His face was visibly cut and bloody, was well as blood on his hands,” said Sarah Kahmann, Maryville Public Safety Officer. “Stated that his son, ‘Ronnie’ had assaulted him, over an argument of spoiled meat.”

Coy pleaded guilty to the charge in January.