Little League coach David Hartshorn charged with molesting 3 boys

A baseball coach collapsed in court today as he was charged with molesting three teenage boys on his team.

David Hartsho, 52, is alleged to have carried out the attacks on the boys between July 2009 and January this year.

Prosecutors also claim Hartsho, who coaches a Little League in New York, videotaped the boys performing sex acts on each other and showed them child poography.

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players at a New York baseball team  ''The consequences of his alleged actions for the victims are profound and can well result in emotional trauma from which they may never recover. Such alleged conduct cannot go unpunished.'

The boys, aged between 13 and 14, reported the allegations to police on Monday.

Hartsho was today charged at Queens Criminal Court, New York, with criminal sexual acts and endangering the welfare of a child.

Mr Brown alleged that, at least once, Hartsho showed a 13-year-old boy child poography and told him 'I’m going to do that to you' before touching him sexually, according to the New York Post.

It claims police found a stash of child poography on DVDs, VHS and 8mm film when they searched his home, including images of children aged under ten.

As prosecutors began presenting the evidence, Hartsho told his lawyer: 'I don't feel well'. He then began convulsing and collapsed, and officers had to clear the court.

When he recovered he was taken into custody. He faces up to 25 years in prison if  convicted.