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Home » MLB » Ex-Sports Reporter Gets Blasted For Waiting 20 Years To Expose Being Sexually Assaulted By MLB Player (TWEETS)
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Ex-Sports Reporter Gets Blasted For Waiting 20 Years To Expose Being Sexually Assaulted By MLB Player (TWEETS)

June 22, 2021 @9:11amby Darrelle Lincoln
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Social media can be the absolute worst sometimes….mostly all the time.

A former New York sportswriter mustered up the courage to reveal in an explosive emotional essay how she was raped by a Major League Baseball player in a hotel room almost 20 years ago.

Kat O’Brien was 22 and interviewing the unnamed player for a story about foreign-born sluggers adapting to US culture when he “moved suddenly to kiss me,” she wrote in a first-person column Sunday in the New York Times.

“I said, no, no, I don’t want that, but he pushed me over to the bed,’’ said O’Brien.

“I tried to shove him,’’ she recalled. “I said no, stop, no, stop, over and over. He pushed further, getting on top of me, pulling off my skirt, and having sex with me against my will.

“Afterward, I remember getting in my car, shaking, to drive home, and looking at my blue-and-white skirt from Express, and thinking why did I have to be wearing a skirt? Because it was Texas in summer,’’ O’Brien said.

“I remember, once I got back to my apartment, drinking a bottle of red wine in a desperate attempt to numb my sadness and rage. Instead, I threw up all over the carpet.’’

The former journalist said she never reported the 2002 attack because “I knew that if I told anyone what happened that it would ruin my career.”

“I was 22 with no track record, and at that time — nearly two decades ago — most people in baseball would have rallied to protect the athlete. So I blamed myself,” she wrote.

“I must have been too nice, too trusting, too friendly and open. Even though I said no, it must have been a misunderstanding.”

I wrote an achingly personal piece that the @nytimes published today on being raped by an @mlb player while I was a sports reporter, and as importantly, on the corrosive atmosphere of sexual harassment that female sports journalists face daily.https://t.co/TylQ0mduNt 1/

— Kat O'Brien (@OBrien_Kat) June 20, 2021

After posting on Twitter about it, she got hit an assortment of comments from people asking why she took to long to say something and asking to reveal the player.

so it took nearly 20 yrs to get night mares, bs to this

— tom j (@1958beanster) June 20, 2021

Please identify the rapist by name. Thank you.

— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) June 20, 2021

Really powerful essay and similar to what a lot of women go through. Stop blaming the victim! https://t.co/uWnlmeXq38

— The Antidote (@TheAntidote2020) June 21, 2021

Yes, she could have named him. Respect her choice not to. Who is not important. Why is. This is another story about a woman who was sexually assaulted at work. https://t.co/K1JS3Krtys

— Michelle Pace (@michellelpace) June 21, 2021

I'm sorry but I'm calling BS on this… U waited 20 yrs to tell the story and u won't mention the guy's name… That to me, says it didn't happen.

If u really wanna help women, tell ppl who the guy is that attacked u, so they know to stay away from him.

— Rico Blacc (@rico_blacc) June 21, 2021

If you don't name the man….there is no reason to state any of this… you are not protecting women from this guy… you waited 18 years, so he has probably raped again… this op Ed literally does nothing to hold this man accountable

— Opinionated Gamer (@Fate_Klcooper0) June 21, 2021

Maybe if @OBrien_Kat said something 20 years ago others might not have suffered if in fact this mystery man even exists

— flyitlikeustoleit (@flyitlikeustol2) June 21, 2021

I was beat up by a RedSox player 20 years ago. He beat me with a bat but I don’t want to say who it is. Where’s my publicity?? #attentionseeker

— flyitlikeustoleit (@flyitlikeustol2) June 21, 2021

@OBrien_Kat you’re not afraid to tell your story but are afraid to divulge the name? Took almost 20 years? Not buying it. Sorry pic.twitter.com/4yVTulhRny

— flyitlikeustoleit (@flyitlikeustol2) June 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/Shabir46794941/status/1406968097437892612

Why now? Sounds like a bunch of lies…name names and let the guy defend himself…what they do in court…or STFU

— None (@lance85262476) June 20, 2021

Soon after she was raped, she said, she ran into an All-Star player in the Arlington, Texas, ballpark’s visiting-team clubhouse, and he “stared at me, saying my name and the name of his teammate, the man who had raped me.”

“Suddenly I realized [the rapist] must have told people, making himself out to be a stud and me some girl who was there to pick up ball players instead of do my job,” O’Brien wrote.

“I choose not to name him because it would only open me up to the possibility of having dirt thrown on my reputation; even all these years later and in the wake of the #MeToo movement, a former professional athlete wields considerable power,” she wrote in the gut-wrenching column.

“I hope I can help bring about systemic change rather than seek unlikely-to-come justice for one horrible act.”

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