Man Charged With Beating Daughter With Wiffle Bat?

Interesting news from Newtown Township (suburb of Philadelphia) this month. According to Philly Burbs (news source) - a man, Jay Louis Colton, repeatedly struck his teenage daughter with a wiffle bat when she refused to get up to get ready for school. Sound too weird to be true? I thought that too when I first read it but I assure you it's legit. The teenage daughter scratched one of her father's eyes, a matter that needed medical attention at a local hospital prior to his arrest. The daughter suffered from large deep bruises on her legs, buttocks, and forearm from the beating. On the bright side, she got her wish in not wanting to go to school that day. Louis is being charged with first-degree felony aggravated assault, first-degree misdemeanor simple assault, and endangering the welfare of a child. He could face a minimum of 10 years in prison if convicted.

Source: Newtown Man Charged With Beating Daughter With Wiffle Ball Bat by Chris English (Bucks County CourierTimes)

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There is an evil lurking in the suburbs of Philadelphia this summer. Someone has been rampaging around and vandalizing religious statues (particularly the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc) causing more than $30,000 in damage. What a cock-smooch, right? So what does this story have to do with wiffleball? Nothing really. But the guy who wrote the article referred to a childhood memory in this column. As a child he recalls occasionally hitting a wiffleball over an outfield fence of a neighborhood field into a woman's backyard which had a Virgin Mary statue in it. The woman who lived in the house would usually retrieve the ball for them. However she would remind them of the statue. “She’s the Virgin Mary, boys, not a center fielder.” <-------- That made that story worth reading. Read enough national news via local newspapers online and you'll find that wiffleball finds a way into print, even if it's not necessarily in the headline. They still haven't caught the turd burger who's been defacing all those statues either. 

Source: Philly Burbs News (Courier Times, The Intelligencer, Burlington County Times) for full story.