If you find yourself wanting to harm someone...

... this guy seems like a good candidate.

Man in need of a severe beating

Just in case the link disappears, here's the story:

A Fayette County tee-ball coach was arraigned on felony charges yesterday that he bribed a 7-year-old player to throw a baseball at a mentally disabled teammate's face to keep the boy out of a game.

State police said Mark Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, offered his star player $25 on June 27 to hit an 8-year-old autistic child with a baseball because he wanted to win the game.

"Just when you thought you had seen everything," said state Trooper Thomas B. Broadwater.

Downs' lawyer, Thomas Shaffer, said his client denies the charges.

"He has two children of his own," said Shaffer. "He could never do this."

Police said Downs asked player Keith Reese to hurt Harry Bowers, who is autistic. Reese threw a ball that hit Bowers in the left ear while they were warming up before a game. After Bowers didn't go down, Reese hit the child in the groin with the ball, police said.

When Bowers ran to tell the coach about the attack, Downs suggested that he sit out the game, police said.

When Jennifer Bowers, the boy's mother, confronted Reese about the deliberate throws, Reese told her the coach had asked him to hurt Bowers, police said. The boy was taken to an emergency room, where he was treated for swollen red marks on his ear and groin.

Bowers could not be reached for comment. State police said she signed up her son for tee ball hoping it would help him overcome some of the social stigma he might face in the future.

Downs was charged with criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, corruption of minors, conspiracy to commit simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Downs and Bowers' mother have clashed in the past about her son's playing time, police said. The R.W. Clark Youth Baseball League requires that each player get at least three innings in the games.

The league investigated the incident after a complaint was made but concluded that it could not prove Downs had done anything wrong.

A woman who answered the phone at Downs' home yesterday said that he would not talk to the media and denied the charges.

Broadwater said after conducting several interviews with the boy who threw the ball and his father, he determined that there was enough evidence to charge Downs.

Downs has a preliminary hearing July 28.