Former Little Leaguers accuse New York coach of molesting them decades ago, suit says. “I didn’t want him to do to any other child what he did to me when I was 13.'
The Warriors, which Sagona founded in 1987 after leaving Staten Island — and retiring from his job on Wall Street as a currency trader — has been highly successful and helped incubate the careers of talented high school-age players who went on to play in the NBA, such as Troy Murphy, Matt Carroll, Aaron Gray and Darrun Hilliard.
“People can find a path to justice in different ways,” he said. “The example here is somebody heard about the Child Victims Act and said: ‘Oh my God, this is me. Maybe now, after all these years, I can finally do something about it.’”Courtesy James Manfredonia But when he got there, Manfredonia said in the court papers, Sagona pulled down his pants and masturbated him.
Two years later, Manfredonia said, he worked up the courage to call the New York City Police Department detective bureau on Staten Island to lodge a complaint against Sagona.Then, earlier this year, the Child Victims Act became law and Manfredonia reached out to former teammates. “I played a couple years of minor league ball,” he said. “I came up with Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry. But at a certain age, I knew I was not going to get into the big leagues.”“Then I went to California and started self-destructing,” he said. “I had baseball to comfort me and now I didn’t have that anymore. That’s when the drugs and alcohol took over.”
Morrison said the only person he really confided in beside his wife about what happened was his godson, who works as an NYPD detective and whom he called several years ago.
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