The Lookout Mountain District Attorney released a statement on Friday about the conviction of a Ringgold man who was found guilty of abusing his two-year-old son and three-year-old daughter by beating them repeatedly.

The abuse happened in Catoosa County in 2023 when twenty-four-year-old Dillan Michael Tennant became enraged because the two children made a mess in their room.  Tennant is accused of beating the two children with a board over the course of two days.

Family members reported the abuse which resulted in Tennant’s arrest.

A Catoosa County jury returned a guilty verdict on two counts of Cruelty to Children in the First Degree.

District Attorney Clay Fuller said, “This child abuser will have plenty of time to clean his room in the Department of Corrections” .