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UPPER ALLEN, Pa., Nov 7, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A Pennsylvania mom faces criminal charges and banishment from youth football games after a profanity-laced tirade against a boy who injured her son in a game.
Marianne Jackson of Upper Allen was arrested at the midget-league game Oct. 29, the Harrisburg Patriot-News reported. Her son was hospitalized after being injured.
The Catholic Football Association plans to discuss a penalty next month.
Jackson said she believes her anger was justified but her words were not.
"I got angry and one thing led to another," she told the newspaper. "Emotions ran high. Looking back, I would have done it differently."
An off-duty police officer who was at the field in the Central Dauphin School District for another game said Jackson shoved him when he tried to stop her from climbing a fence to get to the player who had tackled her son. She was charged with disorderly conduct.
Jackson said the other player head-butted her son. Officials say her son was felled with a clean tackle.
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