3 coaches suspended, parent charged after brawl at Cincinnati youth football game
CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Three coaches have been suspended and a parent has been criminally charged after a fight broke out at a little league football game.
It happened during Sunday’s game between the Aiken Little Falcons and Lord’s Gym Panthers at Woodward High School.
The Cincinnati United Youth Football and Cheer League said things began in the restroom when Jataira Hoskins, the mother of a Lord’s Gym cheerleader, pushed an Aiken cheerleader.
“That didn’t go on. That’s why I’m saying they’re making up stories,” Hoskins told Local 12.
Hoskins said it was an Aiken coach that attacked her as she held her one-year-old daughter.
“My head was knotted up, both of my eyes were black,” Hoskins said.
When her little league coach fiancé, Demario Nevins, went to investigate, it led to a heated argument which turned into a fist fight.
“I couldn’t see anything. I was on the ground, so I don’t know who was hitting me, who was kicking me,” said Nevins.
“They grabbed my wig and started attacking me,” said Hoskins.
The league said all three coaches it believes took part in the altercation, including Nevins, have been suspended indefinitely.
Parents are being asked to re-read the parent code of conduct which specifically bans fighting.
“It shows that sometimes your parents don’t know how to behave,” said Marye Ward with the league. “So the things that I tell you not to do – the fighting and the cursing – still don’t do it because it’s still wrong.”
Hoskins was cited for disorderly conduct. In a criminal complaint, police say she was repeatedly asked to leave.
“Ain’t no disorderly conduct,” said Hoskins. “I wasn’t doing anything disorderly until somebody put their hands on me.”
But Hoskins admitted she’s no stranger to conflict.
In 2019, she was accused of trying to run over McDonald’s employees in a dispute over French fries.
All charges against her were later dismissed.
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“It just went from me going in there and throwing a straw, to ten people coming from behind the register fighting me,” said Hoskins.
Just as in the McDonald’s case, Hoskins claims she was a victim in Sunday’s brawl and not the instigator.
Ward said Sunday’s three remaining games had to be canceled because of the fight. League officials are reviewing cell videos from Sunday’s fight to identify anyone else involved.