One day before Michael Clish was to attend a hearing in the Outagamie County Circuit Court, he was found dead in his home due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Clish was heading to trial on October 27th on four felony and one misdemeanor sexual abuse charges.
He was the coach for the Appleton Rebels Youth Baseball team in Appleton, Wisconsin. The charges, however, did not involve any of the players. Clish allegedly gave a 17-year old boy rum and then assaulted him.
Once those charges were filed, other allegations appeared including a sex charge in 1983 that involved a 14-year old. Clish was never convicted. In addition, another man came forward and accused Clish of assaulting him in 1977 and 1978 when the man was 13 and 14-years old. He was a batboy for the team Clish coached.
Unfortunately, we will never know now if Clish was innocent or guilty of the crimes against him. However, this incident has prompted the Appleton Rebels Little League to examine running background checks. Prior to now, they have not background checked their coaches. One hopes that the introduction of background checks in the league will keep unfortunate incidents, like this one, from occurring.
Wow, this story is sad in a lot of ways. I hope they do start doing background checks!
I think his actions pretty much scream “GUILTY!”
I think his actions scream depressed and remorseful. We do need to protect children, but we also need to get people this deranged help. Statistically they are victims of the same abuse that they are committing. A vicious sick cycle which is one that is hard to stop. We need better counciling for the victims and the perps. Though i must agree, a background check is important to run on anyone working with children, elderly, spousal abuse victims or the disabled.
We need to protect our children and promote a safe work enviornment.
It’s unfortunate that someone is sexually abused, sexually assaulted or harmed by an idiot and that this idiot gets away with it and continues to hurt innocent kids for years… Running background checks on individuals can and will be the difference when looking into hiring someone. This can prevent another child from being a sad statistic.
JUSTICE SERVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad on both sides – if he was actually innocent this time, a background check would have prevented him from being employed as a coach – and all of this could have been avoided.
My second reaction: He was innocent but new his reputation was forever ruined. And I mean *forever*.
I think that anyone that elects to or volunteers to coach or work with children should have a background check done. It is scary to see how many times I have heard about child abuse in relation to coaches or volunteers. If we don’t start taking our children’s safety VERY serious, we will continue to hear about these unfortunate victims.
I don’t think I’m going to let my children play baseball!
Background checking is really a must they should conduct background checks to be sure if their accusation are true not to ruin the life of an innocent.
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We need to protect our children and promote a safe work enviornment.
We need to protect our children and promote a safe work enviornment.
My second reaction: He was innocent but new his reputation was forever ruined. And I mean *forever*.