This guy needs special punishment...

[Guest]

What an ass.

I have an idea: Tie his feet together and tie them to a stake in a batting cage, tie his hands behind his back and aim the ball thrower at his crotch and set it for fast balls.

 

[impressive]

 

[Guest]

just when you begin to have a wee bit of faith in humanity...
give him to me...ive got some hostility to work out.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Kind of ironic his last name is Downs (Down syndrome).

I hope the fuckwad gets caught.

 

[oggbashan]

Hold it!

This coach is only accused. It is 'alleged'.

How do you know that those who claim he paid to have the kid hurt aren't lying?

False accusations from children are not unknown. Unfortunately the false accusations from some make the real crimes harder to prove.

The coach is innocent until proven guilty. He has an unsecured bond - surely some indication that the authorities aren't taking this accusation too seriously.

On the other hand he may have done it - but it ain't proven yet.

Og

 

[Guest]

This coach is only accused. It is 'alleged'.

How do you know that those who claim he paid to have the kid hurt aren't lying?

False accusations from children are not unknown. Unfortunately the false accusations from some make the real crimes harder to prove.

The coach is innocent until proven guilty. He has an unsecured bond - surely some indication that the authorities aren't taking this accusation too seriously.

On the other hand he may have done it - but it ain't proven yet.

Og

god i hate the voice of reason

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Regardless of whether the coach did it or not, that's one smart mom. Kudos to her for protecting her child and being vigilant. I'd imagine it would be hard to muster the courage to put your special needs child into activities with children who don't have special needs and then to suspect something like this could happen. Heartbreaking.

 

[Stella_Omega]

My daughter lasted one season in t-ball because the adults were so bizarrely competitive and hateful. The parents would boo 6 year old kids and swear at the umpires! And I wanted her to learn skills and sportsmanship!
While I agree that the man is innocent unless he's proven guilty- there's a reason why people are so inclined to believe it of him, as a side issue.

 

[thebullet]

I coached little league wrestling for years. The first match we ever had, all my kids were about 5 pounds under their wrestling weight class. The other team's kids got on the scale and each one of them was an ounce or two under weight. One kid was a quarter pound over. His coached grabbed him off of the scale by the collar and started screaming: "You were on weight last night! How could you eat overnight and not make weight?"

The kid was eight years old. (I let him wrestle anyway, even though another coach told me later that had any of my kids not made weight, they wouldn't have been allowed to wrestle.)

I think logic dictates that some people are just fucked up.

 

[oggbashan]

It looks as if it wasn't true. The League would have lower standards of proof than is required by the law.

"League organizers investigated accusations against Downs before the T-ball season ended earlier this month but could not prove that he did anything wrong. If Downs is convicted of any crime, he won't be allowed to be a coach next year, Forsythe said."

I suspect that the kid WAS hurt by other kids but not at the instigation of the coach.

Og

 

[Boota]

I wouldn't be surprised either way. I've seen it before. The only thing that fucks up youth sports is when adults live vicariously through the kids. I coach youth league baseball and I see it a LOT. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but it pisses me off every time.

If it's not true I would want to find out why the lie was made and punish the accuser. If it is true they should punish the coach to the fullest extent of the law.

 

[SeaCat]

If this is found to be true I think the coach should be placed nude in a small glass enclosure along with several thousand Mosquitoes. If it is found to be false and the accuser has been found to be doing this malicously then the accuser needs to be given the same punishment. (Of course the punishment should be public.)

Cat