From the last news article linked above:
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Although the ASA requires all softball coaches to pass a nationwide background check, Monson said, umpires are not put through a similar screening process.
"Background checks only catch people who have already been caught and convicted, and he has no record so that would not have made any impact on this case," Monson said.
Aside from a few moving violations, Turner's only conviction was in 1995 for drunk driving.
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Typical feel-good-do-nothing response. Let's require tens of thousands of background checks even though it does nothing whatsoever to address the problem.
Taking the news reports at face value (that in itself is against all logic), this guy must have flipped a mental switch or something and gone off the edge. You don't just go from an admired individual to someone who would grope little girls in broad daylight in front of their parents and dozens of other onlookers. Very sad.