Lets look deeper

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/more/10/12/bc.bbo.deliberatebeanin.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

This is an interesting article. A coach is jailed for 1-3 years for paying one of his players to "bean" (the act of throwing a baseball with intent of harm) one of his own players.

The young player stated that the coach offerd his $25 to hurt the 9 year old autisic child during warm-ups so he would sit out.

The coach claims no such interaction occured,

The article is very one-sided. Only one quote came from the coach, and it illustraded poor voccabulary, maby on puprpose.

Here is acrasy idea, mabey the kid thew the balls teasing the autistic child and hurt him. To keep out of trouble he lied and said the coach paid him to do it. The reason given is that the coach did not want the autistic child to play.

A child lied... no way! The article did not even venture into this idea.

I do not know what really happened. I do know this, if the coach did not want Autisim boy to play, he could have benched him. It happens to millions of kids every year, in every sport, in every country. Why waste $25 and possible jail time, if he could just have sat the kid.

I am familiar with children/parents lieing to reach and ends, happens every hour. Why would this be any different?