The boy will recover from his injuries from the violent assault.
Mahone is the founder and executive director of the behavior modification boot camp program called Young Men and Women for Change. He believes his program, which has been in Toledo for 15 years, can help decrease the crime and violence the city has been experiencing recently amongst its youth.
The program teaches kids 5 to 17 years old non-violent conflict management techniques, ways to decrease substance and alcohol abuse, physical training, as well as life and social skills.
Dose of Reality, which is their signature program, involves youth spending a Friday night at Horizon Science Academy on W. Sylvania Avenue from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Saturday morning. Parents attend for the first hour. Mahone says he breaks the youth down by building them up and stripping them from everything that's negative and using positive reinforcement so they can become productive leaders.