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Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball
Posted on Monday, August 01 @ 09:01:02 EDT by | 
Friday, July 29, 2005
By Moustafa Ayad, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UNIONTOWN -- An 8-year-old boy who told authorities he was bribed by his coach to throw a baseball at an autistic teammate testified yesterday that after he hit the teammate in the groin, the coach ordered him "to go out there and hit him harder."
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by BeeBee Monday, August 01 @ 10:20:58 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The coach comes up for arraignment on Sept 15th, 2005. I'll be watching to see what developes.
It sounds like this coach is just a lousy human. According to another AP article, he's been in trouble before. Once he got upset with a umpire and offered $25 to any player who could "accidently" hit that ump.
His lawyer is saying its all an easily explained misunderstanding! The coach was just joking!
Yeah, right. |
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by nirrti_rachelle Monday, August 01 @ 17:35:36 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Ohhh! Just a "little misunderstanding" huh? I'm sorry, but if that had been my autistic child, this wouldn't have even made it to the courts since I would've called on a few very well-built cousins to educate that coach on how painful it is to have head and groin injuries. |
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by Aaron_Mason Monday, August 01 @ 19:53:34 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message | Journal) http://www.thats-too-much.info | | Well I don't know about you guys, but I am absolutely appalled to think that a coach would go to such lengths to keep a player out of his team. It sickens me. I'll be watching this til the very end. |
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by animallover Wednesday, August 03 @ 00:15:38 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I agree that it is horrible a coach would do this to a potential team member, but I believe it - after all, we have people getting beaten up (and killed, if I remember right) over little league and pee wee football . . . |
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by jman Thursday, August 04 @ 06:15:45 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I live near Pittsburgh, so even though this guy was just "joking" i might have to take a ride down to Uniontown with a baseball bat, and show him how painful it is to be made fun of and left out. Some people only understand one language and thats violence. |
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by Namiko Monday, August 08 @ 11:06:53 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message | Journal) | | It is absolutely disgusting that this is allowed to happen. Little league baseball, and kids' sports in general, should not be nearly as violent. These kinds of sports should only be games for fun, healthy exercise and places where discipline, teamwork and leadership is taught, not violence. |
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Re: Coach bribes 8 year old to hit autistic child with ball (Score: 1)
by Josher Friday, March 28 @ 10:20:29 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message | Journal) | | man, i wanna hit him with a ball |
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