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Aaron Hernandez reportedly was sexually molested as a young boy
Cindy Boren Washington Post
October 14 at 2:23 PM
Layer by layer, bit by bit, more is being uncovered about the brief, troubled life of onetime NFL star-turned-convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez, who is the subject of an exhaustive new investigation by the Boston Globe. Among the revelations from the newspaper’s Spotlight team in a six-part series and podcast is that the former New England Patriots tight end was “sexually molested” as a child.
The team’s investigation included interviews with Hernandez’s former teammates, friends and family members and recordings of almost 300 phone calls Hernandez made from prison while serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2013. Five days before his suicide, he had been found not guilty of a double homicide that occurred in 2012.
Among the revelations is his brother’s comment that Aaron Hernandez was molested as a young boy, something that George Leontire, one of Hernandez’s lawyers also confirmed he had been told. Neither Jonathan Hernandez nor the lawyer, however, would reveal the identity of the alleged predator. Jonathan Hernandez revealed other disturbing details, saying that he and his brother were “in constant fear of their father’s beatings” as kids in Bristol, Conn.