Aaron Hernandez played three years with the New England Patriots.(Photo: Nancy Lane, AP)

In the first of a series of six reports describing the late Aaron Hernandez, the Boston Globe announced that the young man of the New England Patriots had been sexually assaulted during his childhood, beaten by his father and had started smoking cigarettes. marijuana regularly in high school.

The Globe's "Spotlight" team produced the series after spending hours interviewing people who knew Hernandez, browsing thousands of court and government records, and reading many texts and emails sent by Hernandez before killing himself. prison last year. The report also includes information gathered from about 300 phone calls over a six-month period spent in prison by Hernandez.

At the time of his death, Hernandez was serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd in 2013.

Hernandez was found hanged by a bed sheet in his prison cell on April 19, 2017, a few days after being found not guilty of the double murder of two men on a Boston street in 2012.

Included in the Globe report:

► During Hernandez's career in the NFL, Constable Brian Murphy was trying to advise Hernandez on the need to always fulfill his obligations in commercial transactions.

"No, no," Hernandez told Murphy.

Hernandez searched his closet and pulled out a rifle. "I take my respect for weapons," he said.

Murphy told a grand jury that he had interpreted this as a joke.

► Hernandez loved his father Dennis, although he and his brother Jonathan were often "beaten and brutalized" by him, according to The Globe. Friends have noted that Hernandez did not cry when his father died at age 49 from a hernia operation, according to The Globe. Still, some believe that he has never recovered from his father's death.

► Hernandez High School quarterback Dennis SanSoucie told The Globe newspaper that he and Hernandez had smoked marijuana before school, before training and after games. The Globe said it was the beginning of Hernandez's lifelong relationship of getting high, even before big games.

► SanSoucie also told The Globe that he had had sex with Hernandez in high school and high school, a relationship that they have hidden from everyone.

► Jonathan Hernandez told the Globe that Aaron Hernandez had revealed to him later, in adulthood, that he had been sexually abused as a child. Jonathan Hernandez refused to name who had assaulted his brother.

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