News: 'Tee-Ball Coach Took 'Hit' On Player'
Cops: Tee-Ball Coach Took 'Hit' On Player
POSTED: 2:16 pm EDT July 15, 2005
UPDATED: 5:27 pm EDT July 15, 2005
NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A tee-ball coach seeking to keep a player with a mental disability off the field allegedly asked another player to hurt the boy, state police said Friday.
The alleged incident happened June 27 at R.W. Clark Little League Field in North Union Township, Fayette County, police said.
During pre-game warmups, Mark Reed Downs Jr. offered one of his players $25 to hit the 8-year-old boy in the head with a baseball, according to a police news release.
"Various interviews revealed that Downs did not want the victim to play due to his physical limitations," the release said.
After speaking with Downs, the second player hit the victim near his left ear and in the groin area, leaving him unable to play in that night's game, police said.
Downs, 27, of Dunbar, was charged Friday with criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, corruption of minors and reckless endangerment. He is free on bond and faces a preliminary hearing on July 28.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4728564/detail.html
hah, what is this world coming too? :P
POSTED: 2:16 pm EDT July 15, 2005
UPDATED: 5:27 pm EDT July 15, 2005
NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A tee-ball coach seeking to keep a player with a mental disability off the field allegedly asked another player to hurt the boy, state police said Friday.
The alleged incident happened June 27 at R.W. Clark Little League Field in North Union Township, Fayette County, police said.
During pre-game warmups, Mark Reed Downs Jr. offered one of his players $25 to hit the 8-year-old boy in the head with a baseball, according to a police news release.
"Various interviews revealed that Downs did not want the victim to play due to his physical limitations," the release said.
After speaking with Downs, the second player hit the victim near his left ear and in the groin area, leaving him unable to play in that night's game, police said.
Downs, 27, of Dunbar, was charged Friday with criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, corruption of minors and reckless endangerment. He is free on bond and faces a preliminary hearing on July 28.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4728564/detail.html
hah, what is this world coming too? :P