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Bumping for the Globe’s reporting he was molested as boy, took beatings from his dad, and had a relationship with a high school teammate among other things.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...3fplatform=amp

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10-14-2018 , 04:54 PM

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Sounds like a standard back story for a serial killer.

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10-14-2018 , 07:14 PM

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A dude who was sexually molested, beat by his dad, had hidden homosexual desires and CTE became a serial killer.

Possibly the least shocking news ever.

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10-14-2018 , 07:25 PM

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yeah, so what? this will somehow lead to violent sex criminals receiving less punishment and the nfl expanding to europe. it will certainly not lead to victims receiving much better treatment by medical communities and society.

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10-14-2018 , 07:31 PM

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A dude who was sexually molested, beat by his dad, had hidden homosexual desires and had CTE became a serial killer.

Possibly the least shocking news ever.

You left out the most important factor: he was coached by Urban Meyer.

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10-14-2018 , 07:37 PM

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You left out the most important factor: he was enabled by Urban Meyer.

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10-14-2018 , 07:41 PM

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now he's reunited with his father and can get beatings for eternity. rest in piss

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10-15-2018 , 09:04 AM

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Didn't think it was possible to think meyer is a bigger scumbag.

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10-15-2018 , 09:51 AM

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so did his teammates realize he was nuts or is that common for nfl players?

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10-15-2018 , 09:55 AM

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What was the globe's intent for that investigation? Why does it matter what Hernandez's sexual history was?

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10-15-2018 , 10:24 AM

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so did his teammates realize he was nuts or is that common for nfl players?

ya pretty sure he fit right in with the rest of his immature and crazy teammates getting exploited by the ncaa system and coaches

QUOTE=Perhaps Shimmy;54372285]What was the globe's intent for that investigation? Why does it matter what Hernandez's sexual history was?[/QUOTE]

there have been 2 very long articles and there has been very little about his sex life and only a single paragraph about the abuse.

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10-15-2018 , 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Perhaps Shimmy

What was the globe's intent for that investigation? Why does it matter what Hernandez's sexual history was?

Amazingly it gives both the "Homosexuals-are-immoral-and-homosex-leads-to-murder" and the "Society's-treatment-of-homosexuals-is-ebbil-and-leads-to-murder" crowds fodder to be equally mad about. I assume it will generate a bumper crop of new subscriptions.

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10-15-2018 , 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Victor

there have been 2 very long articles and there has been very little about his sex life and only a single paragraph about the abuse.

wat

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For the first time publicly, SanSoucie also talked about a now-and-then sexual relationship he had with Aaron, which began in middle school and continued through high school.

“Me and him were very much into trying to hide what we were doing. We didn’t want people to know,” Dennis SanSoucie said in an interview.

SanSoucie said he and Hernandez worked hard to keep their relationship a secret. In their traditional community of Bristol, where Dennis was bound for the military and Aaron for big-time football, it was not something they wanted people to know about.

For Aaron, it would not have played well at home, especially with his dad.

Dennis Hernandez had long had concerns that Aaron, as a boy, had a feminine way about him — the way he stood or used his hands, his brother said. He also remembered one of Aaron’s early ambitions that sent their father over the edge.

“I remember he wanted to be a cheerleader. My cousins were cheerleaders and amazing,” Jonathan said. “And I remember coming home and like my dad put an end to that really quick. And it was not OK. My dad made it clear that … he had his definition of a man.”

The home environment, in general, was deeply homophobic.

‘******’ was used all the time in our house,” Jonathan said. “All the time. Standing. Talking. Acting. Looking. It was the furthest thing my father wanted you to even look like in our household. This was not acceptable to him.”

Hearing this sort of harsh talk must have been hard for a teenager exploring his sexuality, though Aaron kept his thoughts to himself. He was also privately nursing another sort of sexual hurt.

Jonathan said that Aaron disclosed later in his adult life that he had been sexually molested as a young boy. Jonathan declined to say more to the Globe about this revelation. One of Aaron’s lawyers in his criminal case, George Leontire, also said Aaron had spoken to him of sexual abuse as a child. Neither the brother nor the lawyer was willing to identify the perpetrator.

Aaron’s sexual complexity was one of his closest secrets, one he hinted at only rarely. His high school quarterback friend was similarly circumspect, and for many years.

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Meyer and Addazio may not have known all they were getting in Hernandez. The athletic gifts were obvious, but behind them was an angry teenager struggling with an abusive upbringing, a growing dependence on drugs, and questions about his own sexual identity.

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There was so much swirling inside. Few people knew then that he had been molested as a boy or that he had suffered beatings at the hands of his father. Or that his mother had enraged her son by dating his cousin’s husband.

Or that Hernandez struggled with his sexual orientation and that he had had relationships with young women and young men. Football has long bred a hyper-macho, intolerant locker room culture. When Hernandez played, there had never been an active NFL player who was openly gay. How would Hernandez, in his ambivalence, fit in with that intolerant culture?

Homophobia and misogyny permeated Hernandez’s world. Take teammate Mike Pouncey, who spent so much time with Hernandez in college that he once reminisced they “never left each other’s side.” Pouncey later played a key role in a bullying scandal on the Miami Dolphins in which Pouncey and others subjected a teammate to such withering homophobic taunts that the victim, a 300-pound lineman, ultimately left the NFL.

Hernandez on family upheaval affecting his college years
When Pouncey later spoke to Hernandez in jail, the phone conversations were punctuated with the same sort of obscene talk, according to recordings of the calls listened to by Globe reporters. In many instances, the vitriol emanated from Hernandez, a way perhaps to conceal his real self from scrutiny. The same pattern appeared in Hernandez’s text messages, in which he would tell male friends that he loved them, then add a blunt caveat, “no ****.”

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10-15-2018 , 11:18 AM

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I guess I'm just wondering what the Globe's goal was when they set out to do this report. It seems like they're trying to paint Hernandez in a positive light- that he suffered all this trauma, therefore it's ok that he became a serial killer.

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10-15-2018 , 11:32 AM

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Shimmy,

Not sure if i agree with that. Seems there is just more to the story and they are telling it. Psychopaths usually habe a ****ed up childhood, AH is seemingly no different. It does shine some light on the ignorance and immaturity that is prevalent in the football community.

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10-15-2018 , 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

A dude who was sexually molested, beat by his dad, had hidden homosexual desires and CTE became a serial killer.

Possibly the least shocking news ever.

There are probably at least a dozen players in the NFL who fit that criteria right now, possibly hundreds since its inception, yet only one serial killer emerged

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10-15-2018 , 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Alpha Fish

There are probably at least a dozen players in the NFL who fit that criteria right now, possibly hundreds since its inception, yet only one serial killer emerged

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10-15-2018 , 01:11 PM

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well yeah there's still time for murder #3. go OJ!

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10-15-2018 , 11:47 PM

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I'm sure he learned his lesson

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10-16-2018 , 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

A dude who was sexually molested, beat by his dad, had hidden homosexual desires and CTE became a serial killer.

Possibly the least shocking news ever.

It's still pretty shocking.