LELAND — The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Leland man after he violently beat and bit his own child.
Cody Lee Banks, 20, was arrested on child abuse charges on Friday, Feb. 9, by deputies from the Sheriff’s Office. Banks had inflicted serious bruises on his two-year-old child, including “bruises on victim’s back and bottom area, arms, legs and other places on body,” according to the arrest warrant for Banks.
Banks also apparently bit his child, resulting in a “bite mark on the left side of the (child’s) face.”
In 2016, Banks was arrested for stealing a credit card from his grandmother and withdrawing money.
Banks is currently in the Brunswick County Detention Facility, where he is being held on a $100,000 secured bond.
