PROVIDENCE — The chief judge of the Family Court has called for an investigation into allegations that several Woonsocket police officers punched, kicked and repeatedly shot a teenaged boy with a stun gun this week.

Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. said the boy, 16, appeared in his courtroom on Wednesday and told him that the beatings were administered at the World War II Memorial State Park in Woonsocket and twice in a room at the Woonsocket police station that was not equipped with cameras.

Jeremiah said that the teenager, who has a troubled past, apparently gave the police a false name and tried to run away from them.

“He doesn’t deserve to be beaten,” he said. “I just don’t believe in it.”

Jeremiah called Woonsocket Police Chief Thomas S. Carey and expressed his concerns about the alleged brutality and the teenager’s injuries. He also urged Carey to investigate the actions of the officers involved in the incident.

Yesterday, Carey said that he wants Jeremiah and his staff to send him the information about the alleged brutality and any photographs of the victim. He said that the department’s internal affairs officer, Lt. Kyle Stone, will investigate.

“If anybody makes a complaint, we investigate them all,” Carey said. “I want to make sure that we are as professional as we can be.”

Samuel L. Johnson, deputy administrator and director of training in Family Court, took photographs of the teenager after he appeared in Jeremiah’s courtroom. He said that he suffered contusions to his neck, mouth, elbows and knees. He also said that there was “footprint” on his back and he had a grossly swollen eye.

“It’s barely open,” Johnson said.

Jeremiah sent the youth to the Training School. The Woonsocket police allege that he assaulted a police officer, Irwin Harris; used force in resisting arrest and obstructed a second police officer, Sean Carpenter. At the time of the alleged assault, there was a warrant for the youth’s arrest on a charge that he escaped last month from a placement program administered by the state Department of Children, Youth and Families.

“He escaped because he heard one of his relatives was going to be shot, so he went to protect him,” Jeremiah said.

He had been placed in the probationary program after serving several months in the Training School.

The teenager, who was not being identified because he is a juvenile, “has no family to speak of,” according to his court appointed lawyer, Robert M. Laren, of Blackstone, Mass. In 2007, the court placed him in DCYF custody after ruling that his mother used “excessive corporal punishment” on him and failed to provide “a minimal degree of care, supervision or guardianship.”

She also had struck him in the head with a frying pan and chipped one of his teeth.

The boy bounced around Woonsocket and Providence and was arrested several times on charges such as assault, theft and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.

According to Jeremiah and Johnson, the Woonsocket police stopped the boy on Tuesday about 6:15 p.m. He apparently gave the officers a false name and tried to run away. The police, they said, gave chase and caught him. They allegedly fired a stun gun at him and administered a beating in World War II Memorial State Park.

The boy told them that the officers arrested him and brought him to police headquarters where, he alleges, he received a second beating.

Laren said that the police brought him to Landmark Medical Center to be treated. Afterward, he said they brought him back to the police station where several officers allegedly beat him again. Laren said that the youth sustained the eye injury during the third beating.

The teenager spent the night in the cellblock at the Woonsocket police station. Laren said that throughout the night, different officers stopped by his cell and “slapped him.” He said that as many as six police officers may have participated in the alleged brutality.

bmalinow@projo.com