It's been a slow day here at the offices of Turnpike Chevrolet. I haven't even made ONE Youtube video of myself jerking off to the L.A. Dodgers. I've been on the Hurricane, WV. Topix backtracking my statements when I made harassing, racists posts concerning someone who lives in Ohio.
This man envies me. I'm rich, I'm sexy, I have a beautiful family only science could give me:
Look at how my wife wants me. She's only acting as if she doesn't, because I'm too awesome to resist. All you jealous kooks out there wish you had my life. I can tell my scientifically engineered boys are going to be a bald douchebags like myself. I told them to hide the baldness with some awesome mutton-chops:
That is also my Facebook profile picture. My wife Christie Lee told me I looked like an inbred version of Conway Twitty. She was only joking. She tells me I'm sexy everyday after I beat her senseless!
Hey kooks and Hallburn stalkers, I'm spending my fourth knocking a few kegs of al-chee-hall back, throwing some punches to the kids, and trolling on the internet!
It doesn't matter if I'm a racist daddy's boy douche, I won't get fired!
As many of you know, Troy Palmer Sexton is a convicted child abuser.
He was convicted of domestic battery against a child.
We feel that Troy's children needs to be taken away from him.
Troy Sexton spends countless hours online making crank calls, harassing people online, and stalking...while neglecting the needs of his children.
We here at the Adopt-A-Sexton agency needs your help in finding these abused, neglected Sexton children good, Christian homes. We feel that Troy puts his needs first ahead of his children, and his wife Christie, either doesn't know or doesn't care...we feel it's the latter.
We just made this commercial, which will be airing on your local cable systems soon. We hope you are moved by these images and do whatever you can to help these abused children.
A Putnam County man charged with abusing his sons at a public ballfield has been released on bond but has been ordered to have no contact with his children until the case is resolved.
Troy Palmer Sexton, 36, of Summit Ridge Road, Hurricane, is facing domestic battery charges after carrying his 6-year-old son across a field by one ankle and allowing the child's helmeted head to hit the ground "more than once," according to a criminal complaint filed in Putnam Magistrate Court.
Sexton was with his four children, including 6-year-old triplets, at the field behind Winfield Elementary on Aug. 6 when a witness saw him being rough with his children during football practice.
Winfield Patrolmen Al Mick and Patrolman Robert Flinn met Putnam Sheriff's Deputy Chad Weaver at the field and found Sexton's vehicle blocked by the vehicles of other parents.
Sexton was described by officers as standing 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 275 pounds. Police said the man looked calm as they approached.
A witness told Mick she saw Sexton leave his seat, cross the field and lift one of his sons above his head and slam him to the ground.
Another witness told police the father had approached the coaching staff and told them his sons were disappointing to him, he was ashamed of their performance on the field and he was taking them home, the patrolman said.
Sexton then grabbed his other son from the bench, "pinched and twisted" his hip and lifted him off the ground by his ankle, Mick said he was told by a witness.
Sexton walked off the field as he carried his son upside down by the ankle, causing the child's helmeted head to hit the ground "more than once," the complaint said.
He then threw the boy over a chain link fence that surrounds the field and the boy landed hard on the ground.
"It took everybody there by surprise," Mick said of the spectators at the field that day.
"It took them a second to realize this is really happening, this is real."
Mick said witnesses told him that after they realized what was going on, several parents rushed onto the field to confront the man. The criminal complaint said an onlooker yelled, "You can't do that to a child!" They said Sexton responded, "Mind your own f-ing business!"
Police said the man tried to leave the field with his four children but was prevented by onlookers who had moved their vehicles to block him and prevent him from leaving.
When police arrived, Sexton was standing with the triplets - the two boys and a girl - and another daughter who appeared to be slightly older, Mick said. Bruising was visible on one boy's legs, the patrolman said.
"The children were still visibly upset, emotional, crying, obviously scared to death," Mick said.
The officer said Sexton admitted to treating his two sons in such a manner but said he did not see why everyone was making such a big deal about it.
Mick said he asked some of the mothers at the field to take the man's children away so they wouldn't see their father arrested and to ensure their safety.
"The mama bears took good care of them, got them something to eat and to drink," Mick said. "I'm very proud of the way the community came together to take care of those kids."
The man was arrested at the field without incident and charged with two counts of domestic battery, misdemeanors. He was released on $20,000 bond Friday.
The children are in the custody of their mother, who was at work when the incident occurred, at their Hurricane home. Mick said the father was ordered to have no contact with the children until the charges are resolved and he is living elsewhere.
FOOTBALL FRACAS;
'I goofed up, big time';
Putnam man arrested over conduct at sons' football practice has Internet notoriety
BYLINE: Veronica Nett, Staff writer
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WINFIELD - The Putnam County man arrested for mistreating his 6-year-old sons at their football practice last month has a cult following on the Internet for his sports-related YouTube videos, and has posted a defense of himself on a national sports blog.
Troy Sexton, 36, of Hurricane, was arrested Aug. 6 at Winfield Elementary School, and charged with two counts of domestic battery. On Thursday, his preliminary hearing was postponed until next month.
In an interview with the Gazette on Friday, Sexton admitted he acted "inappropriately" when he held his son upside down by the ankle and pushed his other son to the ground at the boys' football practice, but says the news media and parents of his sons' teammates have sensationalized events.
"I acted inappropriately, but I didn't hurt anyone," Sexton said on Friday.
Sexton, an employee of Turnpike Chevrolet in Nitro, has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, and more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.
Sexton's 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" appeared about a week after his arrest on the blog bustedcoverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger.
"Well, I goofed up, big time. The gist of the story is true, but most of it is sensationalized and some stuff is flat out not true whatsoever," Sexton stated on the blog.
In the online account, Sexton says he pushed one of his sons to the ground and held the other by the ankle because the twin 6-year-old boys were not participating in their football practice.
"My disappointment in them wasn't the fact they didn't want to play, it was that they wouldn't even try. It was frustrating," Sexton said in the online account.
According to the criminal complaint filed in Putnam County Magistrate Court, Sexton "pinched and twisted" his son's hip, then grabbed him by the ankle, held him upside down and walked across the field, causing his son to bang his helmeted head on the ground.
"When [Sexton] reached the fence bordering the ball field, he threw him across it hard onto the ground," Patrolman Al Mick of the Winfield Police Department wrote in the complaint.
But Sexton said Friday he did not pinch or twist his son's hip or throw him against a fence.
"My disappointment turned to anger," Sexton states in the online account. "This is where I goofed up. The boy I was talking with, I picked him up about a foot off the ground said something like 'why wont you guys even try' and pushed him to the ground."
Sexton said Friday his son fell against the fence.
In his online statement, Sexton said he then talked with the boys' coach, and then went over to his other son and picked him up by his ankle, similar to a game they play at home.
"So anyways, obviously not in a fun loving playful way, I went to pick up the boy from the field by his ankle to show how disappointed I was in him. Not a smart move at all," Sexton states in his online account.
While holding his son by the ankle he walked about five or 10 feet, before putting him back on the ground, Sexton said Friday.
"I had him up by the ankle and some woman started screaming ... when she mentioned Child Protective Services I yelled at her to mind her own f---ing business. (I know the CPS horror stories and bringing up CPS was something I didn't want to hear.)"
Another woman intervened and also mentioned CPS, and Sexton says he called her a "f---ing bitch."
The woman's husband got involved, Sexton said, and charged at him. Other people got involved, he said, and a coach hit him on the side of the head. He said he then got his sons and drove to his daughters' cheerleading practice.
"The situation is over, I'm in an area away from it," Sexton said Friday. "Then the president of the Winfield [Little League] Association wants to make her presence known ... She starts raising her voice drawing attention."
"I walk away and tell her it's not her place to tell me where I take my kids. I told her she was a nut. And she was the one making the scene. Not me," Sexton states in his online account.
By then police had arrived, and Sexton was arrested.
"I've watched the TV report and read the reports in the newspaper. I'm stunned. Literally numb at how this situation has been blown out of proportion," Sexton states in his online account. "I acted extremely inappropriate and I should be punished accordingly. But the things I've watched and read are outrageous."
According to the criminal complaint filed the day of Sexton's arrest, police saw a bruise on the ankle of Sexton's son who he held upside down. But Sexton said the bruise was from a beach trip in July, where his son cut his ankle jumping over a fence.
"That wasn't even a bruise, it was a healing cut," Sexton said Friday. "The fact of the matter is there is not a bruise on any four of my kids. Not a single one."
Sexton is the father of 6-year-old triplets, two boys and a girl, and an older child. All were there when their father was arrested.
According to his bond agreement, Sexton is to have limited contact with his children until the charges are resolved.
Past arrest and YouTube fame
Sexton was also arrested in June 2008 at the Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati for public intoxication and resisting arrest.
Sexton gave an account of that incident to ESPN The Magazine for a story about fans arrested at baseball games. He said the altercation started after Beimel, then pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, got out of a tight spot. Sexton said he took off his Beimel jersey, held it up and screamed the player's name, and was booed by Cincinnati Reds fans around him.
"So I gave the Reds fans the finger, probably because I was drunk," Sexton told ESPN. "A man tugged at my arm and told me to stop (he was right; there were kids around), but I didn't like him touching me. So I yelled, 'You'd better get off me.' But he wouldn't, so I pushed him, and he fell down the stairs.
"It wasn't worth it; this follows you around," he told ESPN.
Sexton has received Internet notoriety for his Beimel videos, and for posting recordings of himself talking with members of the "9/11 Truthers" group.
In one video, Sexton records himself speaking with Bob McIlvaine, a member of the group that alleges the government knew of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before they happened. McIlvaine's son died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
In the 10-minute video, Sexton repeatedly calls McIlvaine a "piece of trash" and a "crackpot."
"You're the one that spreads the lies of America hate, not me, old man," Sexton says in the video.
Last year, Sexton's YouTube sports videos and his Cincinnati arrest even caught Beimel's attention, according to the Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif.
"Beimel has met Sexton and even appeared in a YouTube video responding to the man, but asked if he might have the money to post bond, the left-hander smiled and said, 'I have it. He's not getting it,'" according to a June 18, 2008, article.
WINFIELD - A Putnam County man arrested for holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another son to the ground at their Little League football practice was granted limited visitation rights Tuesday.
Putnam County Magistrate Kim M. Blair approved a motion by Troy Sexton's lawyer to allow Sexton supervised visits with his 6-year-old boys.
Blair granted the motion to amend Sexton's bond agreement during a pretrial hearing Tuesday. She also approved another delay in the case.
Sexton's lawyer, Tom Peyton, asked for the delay because the prosecutor's office and Sexton are working on a possible plea agreement. His next preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Dec. 4.
Peyton said West Virginia Child Protective Services found no signs of abuse or neglect in Sexton's home.
Sexton, 36, of Scott Depot, was arrested Aug. 6 at Winfield Elementary School, and charged with two counts of domestic battery.
According to a criminal complaint filed in magistrate court, Sexton held his son upside-down by the ankle and forcefully pushed his other 6-year-old son to the ground.
Sexton was released on $20,000 bond in August.
According to his original bond agreement, he was to have no contact with his sons until the charges are resolved. He has been living with his mother since his arrest.
Sexton has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy From West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, and more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major-league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.
Sexton also wrote a 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" that appeared about a week after his arrest on the blog busted coverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger from the Web site.
Sexton is the father of 6-year-old triplets, two boys and a girl, and an older child.
All were present when their father was arrested in August.
Putnam County Abuse of sons at football earns 6 months, Sentence suspended pending appeal
BYLINE: Veronica Nett
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WINFIELD - A Putnam County man arrested for holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another son to the ground at the boys' Little League football practice has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Troy Sexton pleaded no contest to two counts of domestic battery on Friday in Putnam County Magistrate Court.
On the first count, Putnam County Magistrate Kim M. Blair sentenced Sexton to six months in the Western Regional Jail, in addition to a $100 fine and $159 for court costs.
On the second count, Blair suspended a one-year sentence and levied two years' unsupervised probation to be served consecutively, in addition to an additional $100 fine and $159 court costs.
Sexton has appealed the sentence in Putnam Circuit Court. His sentence has been suspended until the appeal has been addressed.
Sexton, 36, of Scott Depot, was arrested Aug. 6 at Winfield Elementary School, after he held his son upside-down by the ankle and forcefully pushed his other son to the ground because the 6-year-olds were not participating in their football practice.
Sexton was released on $20,000 bond in August.
At an October hearing, Sexton's lawyer said West Virginia Child Protective Services found no signs of abuse or neglect in Sexton's home.
Sexton has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major-league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.
Sexton also wrote a 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" that appeared about a week after his arrest on the blog bustedcoverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger from the Web site.
Sexton is the father of 6-year-old triplets, two boys and a girl, and an older child. All were present when their father was arrested in August.
Man to serve six months for abusing sons , Putnam father arrested in August at sons' football practice
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WINFIELD - A Putnam County man arrested for holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another son to the ground at the boys' Little League football practice has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Troy Sexton pleaded no contest to two counts of domestic battery on Friday in Putnam County Magistrate Court.
On the first count, Putnam County Magistrate Kim M. Blair sentenced Sexton to six months in the Western Regional Jail, in addition to a $100 fine and $159 for court costs.
On the second count, Blair suspended a one-year sentence and levied two years' unsupervised probation to be served consecutively, in addition to an additional $100 fine and $159 court costs.
Sexton has appealed the sentence in Putnam Circuit Court. His sentence has been suspended until the appeal has been addressed.
Sexton, 36, of Scott Depot, was arrested Aug. 6 at Winfield Elementary School, after he held his son upside-down by the ankle and forcefully pushed his other son to the ground because the 6-year-olds were not participating in their football practice.
Sexton was released on $20,000 bond in August.
At an October hearing, Sexton's lawyer said West Virginia Child Protective Services found no signs of abuse or neglect in Sexton's home.
Sexton has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major-league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.
Sexton also wrote a 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" that appeared about a week after his arrest on the blog bustedcoverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger from the Web site.
Sexton is the father of 6-year-old triplets, two boys and a girl, and an older child. All were present when their father was arrested in August.
Sexton threw racial slur, prosecutor says;
Putnam abuser targeted Winfield police chief at basketball game; judge refers case to probation office
BYLINE: Veronica Nett, Staff writer
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WINFIELD - A Hurricane man arrested last year for his conduct at his sons' midget football practice was removed from a high school basketball game last month for directing a racial slur toward Winfield's chief of police, a Putnam County prosecutor said Tuesday.
Troy Sexton, 36, was removed by a Winfield police officer from the Winfield-South Charleston boys basketball game on Dec. 22 for making several "loud, vulgar and offensive remarks" about Police Chief Harrison Lucas, Putnam County assistant prosecutor Jennifer Scragg said Tuesday.
Sexton also allegedly offered the Winfield officer a T-shirt from his car that he had made with Lucas' picture and the words "dumbest cop of the year."
Sexton pleaded no contest to two counts of domestic battery on Dec. 4 in Putnam County Magistrate Court, and was sentenced to six months in jail and given a suspended one-year sentence and two months of probation. He was arrested in August after holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another to the ground at the boys' midget football practice at Winfield Elementary School.
Sexton appeared in Putnam Circuit Court on Tuesday to appeal the six-month jail sentence levied by Magistrate Kim M. Blair. Scragg's remarks came in response to Sexton's request for probation.
Sexton's lawyer, Thomas H. Peyton, argued Tuesday the jail sentence doesn't compare to other domestic battery sentences in the county.
Since 2005, there have been 265 criminal cases in magistrate court where the defendant has been sentenced for domestic battery or assault charges, according to Sexton's petition for probation. Of those, 19 were sentenced to jail.
Many of the defendants who received alternative sentencing, including probation or fines, were accused of stabbing, slapping and pulling a knife and/or gun on the victims, the petition states.
"While [Sexton's] conduct was highly inappropriate and admittedly criminal, the children did not suffer any serious injuries or long term effects," the petition states. West Virginia Child Protective Services also found no signs of abuse or neglect in the Sexton home.
Christie Sexton, Troy Sexton's wife, asked the court Tuesday to allow her husband to return home and receive probation instead of jail time. She said her husband has underlying mental-health issues and has been taking medication for about five years.
Sexton has been diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder and has been seeing a counselor, Peyton said.
Sexton told the court Tuesday he had not consistently taken his medication while on vacation prior to his outburst at his sons' football practice in August.
"I'm extremely sorry for what happened that day," he said Tuesday. "I handled it in the most inappropriate of ways, humiliating my children and making a whole bunch of children uncomfortable and a bunch of other parents uncomfortable."
Putnam Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding did not make a decision Tuesday, and instead referred the matter to the county probation office to review Sexton's mental health, and the recent allegations at the Winfield basketball game.
Prior to the basketball game, Winfield's chief of police had had no contact with Sexton. The outburst was apparently related to the town's investigation and charges against Sexton, according to prosecutors.
"[Sexton] chose again to exhibit bad behavior at a local sports event where children were in attendance," prosecutors said in their petition. Several students overheard the remarks and mistook them for a racist attack on some of South Charleston High School's basketball players, according to the petition.
The Winfield officer who removed Sexton from the basketball game last month was the same one who arrested him at his sons' football practice in August, according to prosecutors.
Sexton has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major-league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.
Sexton also wrote a 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" appeared about a week after his arrest on the blog bustedcoverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger from the Web site.
His next sentencing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 25.
WINFIELD - A Hurricane man arrested last year for his conduct at his sons' midget football practice was arrested again Friday for making harassing phone calls - a week away from his sentencing hearing.
Troy Sexton, 36, was arrested and charged Friday in Putnam County Magistrate Court with making harassing phone calls to Natalie L. Wandling.
According to the criminal complaint, Sexton called Wandling four times and read her letters written to the county probation office about an ongoing court case. The first time, she hung up; the second time, he hung up. The third time, she began recording the conversations, the complaint states.
It was unclear Friday what ongoing court case Sexton was allegedly calling Wandling about, or what the relationship is between Sexton and Wandling. A county prosecutor could not be reached for comment late Friday.
Sexton was released Friday on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.
He was arrested in August after holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another to the ground at the boys' midget football practice at Winfield Elementary School.
He pleaded no contest to two counts of domestic battery on Dec. 4 in county magistrate court, and was sentenced to six months in jail and given a suspended one-year sentence and two months of probation.
Sexton appeared in Putnam Circuit Court in January to appeal the six-month jail sentence levied by Magistrate Kim M. Blair.
In response to the appeal, Putnam prosecutor Jennifer Scragg presented a petition stating that Sexton had been removed from a high school basketball game in December for directing "loud, vulgar and offensive remarks" toward Winfield's chief of police, including a racial slur.
Sexton also allegedly offered the Winfield officer who removed him a T-shirt from his car that he had made with Lucas' picture and the words "dumbest cop of the year," she said.
Christie Sexton, Troy Sexton's wife, asked the court in January to allow her husband to return home and receive probation instead of jail time. She said her husband has underlying mental-health issues and has been taking medication for about five years.
Sexton has been diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder and has been seeing a counselor, his lawyer Tom Peyton said in January.
His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
Sexton has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for major-league pitcher Joe Beimel.
Sexton also wrote a 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" appeared about a week after his arrest on the blog BustedCoverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger from the Web site.
Putnam prosecutor wants to revoke football dad's bond
BYLINE: Veronica Nett, Staff writer
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WINFIELD - The Putnam County prosecutor's office has filed a request to revoke the bond of a Hurricane man arrested last year for his conduct at his sons' Midget Football practice.
Prosecutors allege that Troy Sexton violated his bond agreement by making harassing phone calls to four women, three of whom had written letters to the Putnam County Probation Office recommending that Sexton receive jail time for charges of domestic battery that he pleaded guilty to in December.
Prosecutors filed the request Feb. 12. On Friday, Sexton, 36, was arrested and charged in Putnam County Magistrate Court with making harassing phone calls to Natalie L. Wandling, one of the four women.
The hearing to revoke his $20,000 bond is scheduled for today. A hearing on his appeal of his sentence on the earlier domestic battery charges is set for Thursday in Putnam Circuit Court.
According to the request to revoke bond, Sexton called Wandling, Pamela Boggs, Melody Pourfanhadi and Delores Breedlove - all are related to him - Feb. 8, from a pay phone at the Ashton Place Kroger in Charleston.
He also allegedly called the women in the early morning Feb. 9, from a private number, according to the motion. When the women picked up, he read the letters written to the court's probation office as part of a pre-sentence investigation, the motion states.
Wandling is Pamela Boggs' daughter, and did not write a letter regarding Sexton, according to the motion.
Boggs, Pourfanhadi and Breedlove wrote letters to the court "expressing their concern if [Sexton] were not sentenced to jail and also alleging other instances of child abuse," according to the motion.
Boggs and Pourfarhadi are maternal great-aunts to Sexton's children, and Breedlove is their maternal great-grandmother.
According to the criminal complaint filed after Sexton's arrest on the phone charges, Sexton called Wandling four times and read her the letters. The first time, she hung up; the second time, he hung up. The third time, she began recording the conversations, the complaint states.
Sexton was released Friday on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.
He was arrested in August after holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another to the ground at the boys' Midget Football practice at Winfield Elementary School.
He pleaded no contest to two counts of domestic battery on Dec. 4 in county magistrate court.
He was sentenced to six months in jail and given a suspended one-year sentence and two months on probation.
Sexton appeared in Putnam Circuit Court in January to appeal the six-month jail sentence levied by Magistrate Kim M. Blair. Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding is scheduled to hear his appeal of the sentence on Thursday.
In response to the appeal, Putnam prosecutor Jennifer Scragg presented a petition stating that Sexton had been removed from a high school basketball game in December for directing "loud, vulgar and offensive remarks" toward Winfield's Chief of Police Harrison Lucas, including a racial slur.
Sexton also allegedly offered the Winfield officer who removed him a T-shirt from his car that he had made with Lucas' picture and the words "dumbest cop of the year," Scragg said during the appeal hearing.
Sexton has a cult following on YouTube where he has posted more than 70 videos under the name "Troy from West Virginia." Most of them focus on sports, more than 20 on Sexton's admiration for Joe Beimel, a major-league pitcher with the Colorado Rockies.
Sexton also wrote a 1,289-word "Arrest Manifesto" that appeared about a week after his August arrest on the blog BustedCoverage.com, which bills itself as "Booze, Ladies and Football." The manifesto is from a YouTube chat Sexton had with a blogger from the Web site.
Judge reduces football dad's sentence in domestic battery
BYLINE: Veronica Nett, Staff writer
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WINFIELD - A Putnam judge has reduced the sentence given to a Hurricane man arrested last year for his conduct at his sons' midget football practice.
Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding sentenced Troy Sexton on Thursday to 30 days in jail and two years of supervised probation.
Magistrate Kim Blair had sentenced Sexton to six months in jail on the domestic battery charges, but Spaulding called that too harsh. The judge also questioned the lack of involvement by the state Department of Health and Human Resources in getting Sexton, his wife and children in counseling.
Spaulding also questioned the decision by county police to try to arrest Sexton on a harassing phone call charge at 9:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at his wife's home, when they already knew he was living with his mother as part of his bond agreement. According to Sexton's lawyer, Tom Peyton, police searched the home and made it seem like Sexton's wife was hiding her husband in the house.
"I do get the feeling that it has turned a little, and the state is only doing this as punitive," Spaulding said.
Sexton, 36, was originally arrested in August after holding one of his sons upside down by the ankle and pushing another to the ground at the boys' midget football practice at Winfield Elementary School.
He pleaded no contest to two counts of domestic battery on Dec. 4 in county magistrate court, but appealed Blair's sentence to circuit court.
Since his appeal, prosecutors have said Sexton was removed from a high school basketball game in December for directing "loud, vulgar and offensive remarks" toward Winfield's chief of police, including a racial slur, and made a T-shirt with his picture on it with the words "dumbest cop of the year."
Peyton said Thursday the T-shirt actually said something like "bonehead statements of the year" in regards to the police chief's statements that Sexton's children had jumped into the arms of police who responded to the incident at the football practice.
Prosecutors also say Sexton made harassing phone calls to several women who wrote letters to the court about his case. Sexton has been charged with making harassing phone calls to Natalie L. Wandling, the daughter of one of the women who wrote the letters. Those charges are still pending in magistrate court.
Sexton apologized to the court for his actions Thursday. He said he's been away from his family for 61/2 months, and misses them.
"With the exception of work, my life is sitting in my mom's basement," he said.
Assistant Putnam prosecutor Jennifer Scragg said Sexton has shown a pattern of disrespect and disregard for the court.
It took a lot of time and thought to put together the T-shirt with the Winfield's police chief face on it, and Sexton also posted a YouTube video Dec. 9 about his arrest, and called it "media sensationalism," she said.
" 'It's all overblown, and give me a break.' That was his attitude," she said.
She recommended Spaulding keep Sexton's original sentence of six months in jail, stating Sexton has shown, "no remorse."
Peyton stressed that Sexton has underlying mental health issues, and with statements given to media by police and the continued media attention, "he just can't handle it."
Sexton has been diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder, and his doctors think he may also have a mild form of autism, Peyton said.
Sexton will start his 30-day sentence today, and was given two days' credit for time served. As part of his probation, he is required to take part in domestic violence therapy, and Spaulding recommended his wife also take part.
Sexton is also required to continue with his therapy pending the approval of county probation.
"You are your own worst enemy," Spaulding told Sexton Thursday.
What also makes this case unique is that it did not start as a police incident, Spaulding said. "Other citizens saw your behavior and became enraged by it," he said.
Troy Sexton, who pleaded no contest to domestic battery charges related to his treatment of his sons at their football practice, saw his jail sentence reduced by a Putnam County judge on Thursday.
Football dad gets 20 days;
This sentence given for phone calls
BYLINE: Veronica Nett, Staff writer
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. P1C
LENGTH: 241 words
A Putnam magistrate sentenced a Hurricane man to 20 days in jail for making harassing phone calls to a woman connected to his trial last month on domestic-battery charges.
Magistrate Kylene Dunlap Brown sentenced Troy Sexton on Wednesday to the jail time, a $100 fine and $184 in court fees.
Sexton, 36, pleaded no contest to making harassing phone calls to Natalie L. Wandling, the daughter of a woman who wrote letters to the court during his trial last month on charges of domestic battery connected to his behavior at his sons' midget football practice.
Putnam Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding sentenced Sexton in February to 30 days in jail and two years of supervised probation on two counts of domestic battery.
Sexton is currently serving that sentence and will receive credit for time served on the most recent sentence from magistrate court.
According to the criminal complaint filed after Sexton's arrest in February on the phone charges, Sexton called Wandling four times and read her letters written to the court by several women, all who are related to him.
The first time, she hung up; the second time, he hung up. The third time, she began recording the conversations, the complaint states.
Sexton was originally arrested in August after holding one of his sons upside-down by the ankle and pushing another to the ground at the boys' football practice at Winfield Elementary School.
Anyway, it's a common theme for Troy Sexton. Anyone who has a differing opinion than his, or who attacks him for his stupidity, is automatically "jealous" of him.
Him and his many sock puppets on the Hurricane, WV Topix will agree:
You may say, "But those are different names" That's true, however, Troy posts under multiple sock puppets and his real name from his employer, Turnpike Chevrolet, his home, and the Nitro, WV Public Library. If you look at what he types, it's the same tired argument, that people are "jealous" of him.
I don't think people would be jealous that your daddy has handed everything to you. He gave you a do-nothing job in his car lot (where you post and make your gay Youtube videos, on daddy's dime), he bought the fertility drugs where you and your wife (who got pregnant at age 16 by another man, by Troy's own admission), and the house you live in is in his name, unless you prove to us otherwise. You refused to divulge your salary, why is that?
Troy claims to make all this money, but on another (now defunct) blog, he admitted to having only 2 grand in his savings, since he had to have 20 grand to get bailed out of jail, we're going to go with the idea that daddy came up with the rest.
Troy Sexton is the Paris Hilton of Hurricane, WV...only with more sand in his man-gina.
This blog is dedicated to the convicted child abuser, Troy Palmer Sexton, of Hurricane, WV.
For those who don't know, Troy Sexton is known for harassment of people who don't share his opinions, his gay-level love of baseball, and his overt racism and bigotry. He also had 2 minutes of fame posting videos of some baseball player he had a crush on.
This is Troy's mugshot when he got arrested and ultimately spent 30 days in jail for domestic battery against his child:
He almost looks like Saddam Hussein when they found him hid underneath a bunker, doesn't he?
Mr. Sexton has many skeletons in his closet, including his daddy giving him a job in his car lot and his wife taking fertility drugs so they can unnaturally give birth to triplets, among many others.
In the coming days, we are going to expose this monster for the monster he truly is. He'd have you believe he's just some normal family man. However, he's anything but, if you Google his name, you'll see there's more to this creature than he'd have you believe.
