CORONADO, Calif. -- Carl Jones was a happy and proud little boy from the day he was born at Coronado Hospital.

Now, just days past his 22nd birthday, that pride is gone.

When 10News investigators arrived at his Coronado home, Jones hid behind his couches and would not come out.

The once proud 200-pound athlete is now a 140-pound recluse who rarely speaks or leaves his home.

Carl’s mother, Rolena, told 10News, “Every other week they were grabbing my son from age 11.”

Rolena Jones said Coronado police officers have regularly harassed -- and sometimes beat -- her son for 10 years. The worst incident, she said, came three years ago after a traffic stop.

"They maced him down. Opened his door, dragged him out of the door, slammed him down to the ground. I think they knocked his head, and began to beat him,” said Rolena Jones.

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That alleged assault happened on the corner of Pomona Avenue and Glorietta Boulevard, across the street from Carl Jones’ house and just a few hundred yards from the hospital where he was born.

Rolena Jones added, “They wouldn't even take him to the hospital."

Four days later, Rolena said officers outside a Wells Fargo in Coronado assaulted Carl again.

Rolena Jones complained to the City Council about the Coronado Police Department. She even wrote her congressional delegates and the district attorney.

Her pleas for help were dismissed and ignored, she said. A civil suit brought by her son was also recently dismissed.

A former Coronado officer said he has not witnessed the extent of the abuse Rolena and Carl Jones allege, but he said he has seen racial profiling at the Coronado Police Department.

The former officer going by the name Jim told 10News, "I have no doubt in my mind that it occurs. I have seen it."

Police Chief Paul Crook said the fact that the Jones case was dismissed speaks for itself, and he said his officers have never profiled anyone, including Carl Jones.

"Absolutely, I can say that. None of the documentation, as far as I'm concerned, supports that. We have an extremely good reputation in our community,” said Crook.

But Rolena Jones said she believed Coronado police stripped her son of his pride and his will to live.

"They physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally...any kind of way you can be hurt, that boy was hurt,” said Rolena Jones.