Aaron Hernandez was sexually assaulted while he was a young boy, according to a report

A series of investigations by the Boston Globe reveals that Aaron Hernandez, a former member of the New England Patriots, who was killed in jail last year, was sexually assaulted in his childhood.

Previously undisclosed information came from the Globe's "Spotlight Team", drawn from interviews, thousands of court and government records, as well as text messages, emails and images sent and received by Hernandez while He was in a Massachusetts Assassination prison in 2013 of an old friend, Odin Lloyd.

The six-part series of the journal, the first part of which was published on 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, as they grew up in Bristol, Connecticut. The beatings were sometimes related to the fact that Dennis Hernandez had been drinking.

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

• Dennis SanSoucie, his teammate, told The Globe that he had sex with Hernandez in high school and college and that the two men had tried to hide it.

• Jonathan Hernandez told The Globe that Aaron Hernandez had later revealed in his adult life that he had been sexually assaulted as a child. One of Aaron's lawyers in his criminal case also stated that Aaron had told him about sexual abuse in his childhood. Neither was willing to identify the author at the Globe.

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

Saturday's report included information from nearly 300 phone calls made by Hernandez in prison over a six-month period.

Hernandez was found hanging from a bed sheet in his cell on April 19, 2017, just days after being found not guilty of two counts of murder in the killing of two men killed in a shootout in front of him. a nightclub in Boston five years ago.