Aaron Hernandez was apparently Molested as A Child

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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.

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Aaron Hernandez's secret gay lover speaks about their schoolboy sexual relationship for first time

Aaron Hernandez's secret gay lover speaks about their schoolboy sexual relationship for first time

 

As the name Aaron Hernandez first found its way into the national spotlight, the high school football star seemed to have it all.

 

The supportive father who helped him reach incredible heights on the field. The natural talent, confidence, and drive. The high school sweetheart. The good looks.

 

But already a young Hernandez was tangled in a secret life, one that would slowly reveal itself as he found himself consumed by demons past and present.

 

His brother has now revealed to the Boston Globe that Hernandez was molested as a young child.

 

Years later, as a rising football star in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut, Hernandez found himself in a secret sexual relationship with a teammate.

 

On the field, Hernandez and Dennis SanSoucie worked in perfect harmony for Bristol Central High School's football team.

 

Hernandez shined as a pass receiver with SanSoucie, the Bristol Rams' quarterback. In the first four games of their junior year, the pair had nine touchdown completions.

 

That year alone Hernandez would catch 67 passes for a total of 1,807 yards, smashing state records and catching the attention of top college recruiters across the country.

 

But off the field he was developing a connection with SanSoucie that went far deeper than sport.

 

The pair first began exploring a sexual relationship in middle school, which SanSoucie revealed continued into high school - even as Hernandez began to date Shayanna Jenkins, who would later become his fiancee and mother of his child.

 

'Me and him were very much into trying to hide what we were doing,' SanSoucie, who later joined the US Marines, told the Globe. 'We didn't want people to know.'

 

That was partially due to their traditional community, but also in large part due to Hernandez's own home.

 

To outside observers, Hernandez's father Dennis was the ultimate supportive dad.

 

When he suddenly died at the age of 49, during his younger son's junior year, many believed it crushed Hernandez and marked the beginning of his downfall.

 

But family members have since revealed that Dennis ran a home where homophobia was rampant and abuse was the ultimate motivational tool.

 

Jonathan Hernandez, the NFL star's older brother, said Dennis long had concerns that Hernandez 'had a feminine way about him'.

 

He closely watched at how his youngest son 'stood or used his hands'. And he became enraged when a young Hernandez expressed interest in cheerleading.

 

'He wanted to be a cheerleader. My cousins were cheerleaders and amazing,' Jonathan, 32, recalled.

 

'And I remember coming home and my dad put an end to that real quick. And it was not okay. My dad made it clear that he had his definition of a man.'

 

 

 

 

'Standing. Talking. Acting. Looking. It was the furthest thing my father wanted you to even look like in our household,' he said. 'This was not acceptable to him.'

 

And Dennis was a man to be feared in the Hernandez household, ruling his son's with an iron fist.

 

Sometimes they came as punishment, such as when Dennis left Hernandez with a black eye because he drank before a school dance.

 

Sometimes they came when Dennis felt his boys weren't working hard enough in school or at football. Other times they came for no discernible reason at all.

 

One time it got so bad that Jonathan threatened to call the authorities. But Dennis remained unfazed.

 

'I picked up the phone once to call, to seek help,' he recalled. 'And his response was. "Call them."'

 

'And he handed me the phone, and he said "I'm going to beat you even harder, you and your brother, and they're going to have to pull me off of you when they knock down the door."'

 

Hernandez would later tell both Jonathan and one of his lawyers, George Leontire, about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.

 

Both Jonathan and Leontire - who later said that Hernandez 'clearly was gay' - have refused to name his abuser.

 

Dennis also threw around the term f****t, which Jonathan said he used 'all the time' while the boys were growing up.

 

A college girlfriend later revealed that Hernandez had also told her about being molested as a child, saying: 'He never dealt with it. It led to issues in his sexuality'.

 

It was just one of many secrets that appeared to torture Hernandez in his short adult life, to be revealed only after he committed suicide in his jail cell in April 2017.

 

SanSoucie himself only decided to come out to his family and friends after Hernandez's death.

 

'I really, truly feel in my heart I got the thumbs-up from him,' he said.

 

Hernandez's shocking suicide came five days after he was acquitted for the murder of Odin Lloyd and two years after he had been sentenced to life in prison.

 

The former New England Patriots star reportedly took his own life two days after he was outed on The Kirk & Callahan Show.

 

He was called a 'tight end on and off the field' and a 'wide receiver' on the show.

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Aaron Hernandez was sexually abused as young boy, report says

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An investigative series by The Boston Globe revealed that former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who killed himself in prison last year, was sexually molested as a young boy.

 

The previously undisclosed information came from the Globe's "Spotlight Team" from interviews, thousands of court and government records, and text messages, emails and images Hernandez sent and received while in a Massachusetts prison, where he was serving a life sentence without parole for the 2013 slaying of onetime friend Odin Lloyd.

 

The newspaper's six-part series, the first installment of which was published Saturday, included details about Hernandez's childhood, sexuality and drug use. Among them:

 

• Hernandez and his brother, Jonathan, were often beaten by their father, Dennis, while growing up in Bristol, Connecticut. The beatings were sometimes related to Dennis Hernandez's drinking.

 

• Aaron Hernandez started smoking marijuana in high school with a teammate before school, before football practice and after games.

 

• The teammate, Dennis SanSoucie, told the Globe that he had a sexual relationship with Hernandez in junior high and high school and that the two tried to hide it.

 

• Jonathan Hernandez told the Globe that Aaron Hernandez disclosed later in his adult life that he had been molested as a young boy. One of Aaron's lawyers in his criminal case also said Aaron spoke to him of sexual abuse as a child. Neither was willing to identify the perpetrator to the Globe.

 

• Aaron Hernandez was close to a cousin, Tanya Singleton, and he was crushed when he learned that his mother, Terri, was in a serious romantic relationship with Singleton's husband, Jeff Cummings.

 

 

The report Saturday included information gleaned from recordings of nearly 300 phone calls Hernandez made from jail over a six-month period.

 

Hernandez was found hanging from a bed sheet in his cell on April 19, 2017, just days after he was found not guilty of two counts of murder in the killing of two men in a drive-by shooting outside a Boston nightclub five years earlier.

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San Jose Mercury News ran an AP story this past week about one of Matthew Shepherd's killers and now I see this Boston Globe reporting of their Aaron Hernandez investigation.

 

Thinking about what MS and AH went through, shouldn't we admit that

 

it doesn't always get better.

 

I know that sounds jaded, but man's inhumanity to man does take its toll.

 

So I wonder what one might do to help, besides repeating what seems at the moment to be just a catchy slogan that WEHO queens wear on their T shirts.

 

There are a lot of kids out their with parents just like Aaron Hernandez' dad.

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