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What a fucking piece of shit this pisses me off too. Way to ruin the kids self esteem to even play a sport ever again. If i ever saw the dude id bean him and make sure it hits him right in his temple and kills him and id do it 5 feet away from him too so its good and close. People fucking with autistic kids and kids with other problems get to me really bad.
This guy, this motherfucker, ooh shit this pisses me off. If I was this kids dad, I'd wait till the motherfucker got out of prison, then have the entire fucking baseball team standing there on the steps outside beaning his ass with the 5,000 baseballs I'd been collecting autistic children's autographs on for the past one to six years.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Youth coach sentenced to prisonDowns offered kid money to bean autistic playerPosted: Thursday October 12, 2006 5:11PM; Updated: Thursday October 12, 2006 5:11PMUNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A youth baseball coach accused of offering an 8-year-old money to bean an autistic teammate so he couldn't play was sentenced Thursday to one to six years in prison.Fayette County Judge Ralph Warman sentenced 29-year-old Mark R. Downs Jr. of Dunbar, Pa. to consecutive six-to-36-month sentences for corruption of minors and criminal solicitation to commit simple assault. A jury convicted Downs in September.Warman revoked Downs' bond and sent him to prison.Downs didn't speak at the sentencing but told reporters "I didn't do nothing" as he was led out of the courtroom.His attorney, Thomas Shaffer, said Downs was upset and looked forward to appealing the verdict. Downs was ordered Thursday to undergo a mental health evaluation and barred from coaching any youth league sport while on parole.Authorities said Downs offered to pay one of his players $25 to hit Harry Bowers, a mildly autistic teammate, with a ball while warming up before a June 2005 playoff game. Prosecutors said Downs wanted the 9-year-old out of the game, because the boy didn't play as well as his teammates.Player Keith Reese Jr. said he purposely threw a ball that hit Bowers in the groin and another that hit Bowers in the ear, on Downs' instructions. Downs denied offering to pay Reese to hurt Bowers."These acts are extremely outrageous and extremely reprehensible since the defendant was involved in the coaching of a youth league," Warman said.Bowers' mother, Jennifer Bowers, said Thursday that since her son was hit, she has struggled to get him to try new activities. She said the boy fears that he would get hurt again.Downs was acquitted on a more serious charge of criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault. Jurors deadlocked on a charge of reckless endangerment. The judge declared a mistrial on the endangerment charge, and prosecutors said they wouldn't retry him.Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.