Memphis Mom Attacked Coach With Bat After Child Sex Abuse Allegations Surface

Memphis, TN – Lakeshia Richmond faces aggravated assault charges for hitting her sons’ youth football coach with a baseball bat. The Memphis mom apologized for not controlling herself when she confronted the coach she believes molested her children, according to the New York Daily News. Richmond told WREG that one of her sons told her on Saturday that his football coach, Tony Masssey, touched him and other boys inappropriately.

Lakeshia Richmond saw Tony Massey walking later the same afternoon and took a baseball bat from the trunk of her car and hit the football coach. Richmond told WMC-TV that, when she looked at Massey’s face, all she could see were her sons being hurt. When Memphis area police officers found the youth football coach, he was bleeding from both the face and head and was shirtless.

Tony Massey remains in a local hospital in serious condition. Police officers have not yet arrested Massey but are investigating the sexual abuse allegations.

“I did what I had to do, I put it in God’s hands,” Lakeshia Richmond stated about the football coach bat attack, according to The Blaze.

Richmond also stated during media interviews that she did call the police and report her son’s claims that his football coach was sexually molesting him and other young boys. The Memphis mom also noted she was hoping police officers would come across Tony Massey before she did. Lakeshia Richmond also maintains that Massey kept telling her he did not sexually molest her son but was also allegedly saying he was sorry at the same time.

The local district attorney noted that, while it is understandable how Lakeshia Richmond felt about football coach Tony Massey allegedly sexually molesting young boys, nothing good comes from taking the law into your own hands, according to The Blaze.