In the month of November 2021, American basketball witnessed an unfortunate event. A terrible action took place in a match between two women’s teams from USA of lower categories. A player brutally attacked a rival by giving her a hard punch that caused the attacked girl to be completely thrown on the court without reaction.
The terrible spectacle was carried out by the daughter of a well-known player of the NBA. It was about Corey Benjaminwho was a member of the templates of the Chicago Bulls and of the Atlanta Hawks in the early 2000s. The most serious of all, even above the aggression, is where the horrifying idea of the brutal attack was born.
The mother of the daughter of Corey Benjamin She was in charge of ordering the player to attack her opponent, a fact for which she has now been condemned. The images of the young woman completely knocked out on the ground went around the world at the time and have now gone viral after it became known that the mother of this young woman had been fined. The video is being the subject of deep debate in the United States right now.
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Alice, mother of the affected player, was in charge of sharing the video in which her daughter received a tremendous blow and with which she wanted to denounce the terrible situation in which her ‘little girl’ had been involved. “There is absolutely no excuse for something like that in basketball. I don’t care how famous you are! This mom told her daughter to ‘punch her’ and my daughter gets punched without provocation. I’m sorry, but that’s all I It’s wrong with youth sports. The girl and her mother showed absolutely no remorse and no apologies. Grassroots sport needs to change.”
The mom of ex-NBA player Corey Benjamin’s daughter has been charged criminally in California after allegedly directing her daughter to sucker punch an opponent during a H.S. hoops game. 44-year-old Latira Shonty Hunt was hit with 2 misdemeanors! ???? pic.twitter.com/0KfVhANrpX
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The sentence after the assault
It has now become known that Tira Hunt, mother of the young aggressor, has been convicted of two misdemeanors after it was proven that she was the one who encouraged her daughter to hit her rival. The match was played in Garden Grovein Californiaand police reported that Tira was convicted of contributing to the crime of a minor and assault.
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Initially, he faced a possible sentence of up to a year in prison. However, he will ultimately have to pay $9,000 to the victim as ordered by the court. Orange County Superior Court. In addition, you will have to write several letters to everyone involved in the matches to apologize for what happened. From the parents of his team as the rivals, to the coaches and players of both teams.
Although Tira, the aggressor’s mother, never apologized, the girl’s father did, the well-known Corey Benjamin, former NBA player and of whom the Bulls fans have some memories: “To the young woman who was punched by my daughter during a youth basketball game, I sincerely apologize and pray for her complete healing both physically and emotional”. A gesture that honors him considering the decision made by the mother of his daughter.
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