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Dad Gets 5 Years For Punching Coach A bit excessive?
COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- A judge sentenced a Mableton man to five years in prison for punching out a Pebblebrook High football coach in Oct. 2008. Ronald Lee will also have to serve 10 years of probation for the attack. The judge could have sentenced Lee to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors said the attack happened after the coach made the defendant’s son run sprints after practice. Prosecutors told jurors this was a case of a parent upset with the way the coach was handling his son. "I didn't say a word. I turned and when I turned that's when he stepped closer and he hit me," said Preston Moses in court Tuesday. http://www.wsbtv.com/news...etail.html | |
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yes, excessive...unless he really did have something in his hand which would change his intent from simply puching the guy out of anger to actually trying to fuck him up seriously... | |
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Sounds like there's a lot more to the case than the short report lets on. If the headline were "Dad Gets 5 Years for Beating Coach So Badly He Needs Plastic Surgery to Correct His Face," then it doesn't seem quite so excessive. Without all the details the court heard, it's hard to say. | |
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Excessive ? Perhaps not, depending on all the details involved
he could have gotten 20 ... so | |
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No, not excessive.
Parents are really out of control nowadays when it comes to their "precious-little-darlings-who-can-do-no-wrong". I coached little league soccer for 1 season (not that I know anything about soccer) and let me tell you, NEVER AGAIN. You have a group of 4 and 5 year olds that are just learning how to kick the ball STRAIGHT, and on the sidelines a group of screaming parents expecting their future David Beckams to shine & making an otherwise pleasurable experience absolutely miserable. We actually had a mother of an opposing player stand by the goal in an effort to intimidate our kids who came near with the ball!! (LOL...my wife got Puerto Rican on her ass!). 
FURTHERMORE...considering as well that we have COLLEGE coaches being reprimanded, fined and even FIRED for "yelling" at their players...5 years in jail for assault is not excessive. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Not enough time.
Moses is the assistant football coach at Pebblebrook High School. During the 2008 season, he made Ronald Lee’s son run wind-sprints as discipline for missing part of a class. Days later, Moses testified, the father punched him out without provocation. The coach’s 7-year-old son was right beside him.
"My kid was just going crazy and I didn't understand exactly why. I knew (the defendant) had done something, I didn't know exactly what it was. I knew I was hit and when I looked down I was just covered in blood and that's why my kid...he was just screaming, 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy,'" said Moses. Moses went to the hospital. The cut was so deep, it required stitches and he will eventually need plastic surgery to repair the scar tissue in and around his mouth. Several former football players testified they witnessed the attack. One player testified that the one punch did so much damage because Lee had something in his hand. "I (saw) like a roll of pennies," one football player testified. Studies have shown the ass crack of the average Prince fan to be abnormally large. This explains the ease and frequency of their panties bunching up in it. |
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Violence (other than in defense) is never excusable. |
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Mars23 said: Not enough time.
Moses is the assistant football coach at Pebblebrook High School. During the 2008 season, he made Ronald Lee’s son run wind-sprints as discipline for missing part of a class. Days later, Moses testified, the father punched him out without provocation. The coach’s 7-year-old son was right beside him.
"My kid was just going crazy and I didn't understand exactly why. I knew (the defendant) had done something, I didn't know exactly what it was. I knew I was hit and when I looked down I was just covered in blood and that's why my kid...he was just screaming, 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy,'" said Moses. Moses went to the hospital. The cut was so deep, it required stitches and he will eventually need plastic surgery to repair the scar tissue in and around his mouth. Several former football players testified they witnessed the attack. One player testified that the one punch did so much damage because Lee had something in his hand. "I (saw) like a roll of pennies," one football player testified. Exactly. Gross. But I do love the term "punched out".  | |
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