Local "Father of the year" Makes National News... Again

[CoolBreeze]

WINFIELD, W.Va. -- The Putnam County man arrested for mistreating his 6-year-old sons at their football practice last month has a cult following on the Internet for his sports-related YouTube videos, and has posted a defense of himself on a national sports blog.

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In an interview with the Gazette Friday, Sexton admitted he acted "inappropriately" when he held his son upside down by the ankle and pushed his other son to the ground at the boys' football practice, but says the news media and parents of his sons' teammates have sensationalized events.

Sexton, an employee of Turnpike Chevrolet in Nitro, has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, and more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.

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In the online account, Sexton says he pushed one of his sons to the ground and held the other by the ankle because the twin 6-year-old boys were not participating in their football practice.

"My disappointment in them wasn't the fact they didn't want to play, it was that they wouldn't even try. It was frustrating," Sexton said in the online account.

According to the criminal complaint filed in Putnam County Magistrate Court, Sexton "pinched and twisted" his son's hip, then grabbed him by the ankle, held him upside down and walked across the field, causing his son to bang his helmeted head on the ground.

"When [Sexton] reached the fence bordering the ball field, he threw him across it hard onto the ground," Patrolman Al Mick of the Winfield Police Department wrote in the complaint.

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While holding his son by the ankle he walked about five or 10 feet, before putting him back on the ground, Sexton said Friday.

"I had him up by the ankle and some woman started screaming ... when she mentioned Child Protective Services I yelled at her to mind her own f---ing business. (I know the CPS horror stories and bringing up CPS was something I didn't want to hear.)"

Another woman intervened and also mentioned CPS, and Sexton says he called her a "f---ing bitch."

The woman's husband got involved, Sexton said, and charged at him. Other people got involved, he said, and a coach hit him on the side of the head. He said he then got his sons and drove to his daughters' cheerleading practice.

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Sexton was also arrested in June 2008 at the Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati for public intoxication and resisting arrest.

Sexton gave an account of that incident to ESPN The Magazine for a story about fans arrested at baseball games. He said the altercation started after Beimel, then pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, got out of a tight spot. Sexton said he took off his Beimel jersey, held it up and screamed the player's name, and was booed by Cincinnati Reds fans around him.

"So I gave the Reds fans the finger, probably because I was drunk," Sexton told ESPN. "A man tugged at my arm and told me to stop (he was right; there were kids around), but I didn't like him touching me. So I yelled, 'You'd better get off me.' But he wouldn't, so I pushed him, and he fell down the stairs.

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Sexton has received Internet notoriety for his Beimel videos, and for posting recordings of himself talking with members of the "9/11 Truthers" group.

In one video, Sexton records himself speaking with Bob McIlvaine, a member of the group that questions how much the government knew of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before they happened. McIlvaine's son died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

In the 10-minute video, Sexton repeatedly calls McIlvaine a "piece of trash" and a "crackpot."

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Here's just a couple of videos of this "gentleman". His children will be very proud later on.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW9kMVwIg9o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhXDh_n ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/user/troyfromwestvirginia

[fearpeddler]

so the guy's trying not to let his boys be made into little spineless pussies by society, good for him.... people waste CPS's time with bullshit like that anyways, there are children having FAR FAR FAR worse done to them across this state and country for that matter every day, and for those kids CPS usually doesnt hear about them or get to their reports or whatever until its too late. And why, because the CPS agent is having his/her time wasted investigating a good person who still believes in spanking his child no matter where they are just because some person with a "new age morality" stick shoved 3 feet up their ass gets offended and files a report. That "time out" shit doesnt work with every child.

[CoolBreeze]

While I agree with most of what you say... carrying a kid off the field in anger, upside down by his ankle is still pretty stupid.

[AmpedNow]

so the guy's trying not to let his boys be made into little spineless pussies by society, good for him....

So, what does this idiotic action have to do with a football practice?

Did anyone ask if the kids even liked sports enough to play it? If not, then why is it so important to this asshole to force his kids to play, esp resorting to this abuse? Are there not other extra-curricular activities he could get his children involved in that they might like?

These actions are inexcusable, and go far beyond an "ol' fashioned butt whooping".

[chip]

This jacka$$ is now making videos demeaning our police officers who put their lives on the line every single day.... and the family court systems. This clown just doesn't get it.

[fearpeddler]

I was involved in my late teen years in the family court system... it is quite the joke......