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'I Blamed Myself:' Former Sports Reporter Says She Was Raped By MLB Player 18 Years Ago 

Kat O'Brien was a youthful games columnist working for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2002 whenever she had the chance to deal with a huge story for the paper, chronicling how unfamiliar conceived Major League Baseball players explored life away from home, submerged in American culture. 안전놀이터

While giving an account of the piece, she organized a meeting with an expert ballplayer who was visiting the area as his group took on the Texas Rangers. The meeting occurred at the meeting club's group lodging. For the 22-year-old O'Brien, as of late out of school and covering for the most part secondary school sports, it's anything but a significant expert open door. Yet, what occurred in that room would burden her for quite a long time to come. 

O'Brien, as she writes in a New York Times exposition, was assaulted. 

She had started directing her meeting when the player had a go at kissing her, she described. 

"I said, no, no, I don't need that, however he pushed me over to the bed. I attempted to push him. I said, 'no, stop, no, stop,' again and again. He drove further, getting on top of me, pulling off my skirt, and having intercourse with me without wanting to." 

She said she later escaped the inn in a frenzy. 

"A short time later, I got in my vehicle, shaking, to commute home, and taking a gander at my blue-and-white skirt from Express, and figuring for what reason did I need to be wearing a skirt?" O'Brien said. "Since it was Texas in summer.'' 

In the wake of showing up home, O'Brien composed that she brought down a container of red wine in a "urgent endeavor" to "numb her pity and fury." 

"All things being equal," she added, "I hurled everywhere on the rug.'' 

And afterward she just kept it contained. 

"I didn't tell my closest companion, my sister, my mom or my games proofreader, who was a lady. For a very long time, I didn't tell anybody," she composed. 

"I didn't say it for all to hear to myself, record it, talk his name or permit myself to consider everything past wishing hard that it would not have occurred. I went through years willing it to unhappen. Mysterious reasoning turned into my fact." 

O'Brien legitimized that as a young lady with "no history" her experience would have been excused. 

"So I accused myself. I probably been excessively decent, excessively trusting, excessively cordial and open. Despite the fact that I said no, it more likely than not been a misconception. I lived in dread the story would get out." 

That changed recently when New York Mets head supervisor Jared Porter admitted to sending physically unequivocal pictures to a lady sports essayist when he was with the Chicago Cubs. He was subsequently terminated by the Mets. Independently, Los Angeles Angels pitching mentor Mickey Callaway was additionally busted in February for sending prurient instant messages to in any event five female correspondents. 

These disclosures, O'Brien said, motivated her approach. 

"As I read records of other ladies' encounters with inappropriate behavior, the full power of my own attack hit me," she composed. "Also, with it came the help that I really hadn't welcomed it, hadn't done anything incorrectly by any means, something I had not even once considered." 

Britt Ghiroli, right now a writer for the Athletic, uncovered her own account of a sexual wrongdoing prior in the year that drag a few similitudes to O'Brien's experience. While covering the Baltimore Orioles for MLB.Com, Ghiroli said that a player welcomed her to his lodging, saying he had a news tip to share. The unidentified man then, at that point made undesirable advances. 

"I strolled in to candles lit and Drake playing," Ghiroli composed. "My stomach staggered as he came at me, attempting to kiss me. I drove him away and proclaimed the lone thing I could consider: What on earth would give him that I was into him? I'll always remember the appropriate response: 'Since you were pleasant to me.'" 

She added, highlighting the difficulties confronting ladies working in the game world, that "each lady has a story, the majority of us have various stories, and all any of us really need is to not stick out and continually examine that it is so difficult to be in this space." 

O'Brien, who said she hasn't functioned as a games author in over 10 years, clarified that she chose not to name the player who assaulted her "since it would just free me up to the chance of having soil tossed on my standing. Indeed, even this load of years after the fact and in the wake of the #MeToo development, a previous expert competitor uses impressive force. I trust I can help achieve foundational change as opposed to look for improbable to-come equity for one appalling demonstration." 

"I trust that by sharing my encounters, more ladies will fondle happy with talking when something is improper," O'Brien added. "What I dreaded losing previously — my employment in sports news coverage — is a distant memory. Be that as it may, I have gotten comfortable with myself." 

The Texas Rangers denounced the episode and denied "any information" of it at that point. 

"This didn't include a Texas Rangers player," John Blake, a representative for the Texas Rangers, told Oxygen.Com. "It's terrible. Kathleen — I know her quite well — she's gutsy to open up to the world. We unquestionably have no capacity to bear that kind of conduct." 

It's muddled if the Major League Baseball will direct a free examination concerning O'Brien's claims. A delegate for the class didn't promptly react to Oxygen.Com's inquiries on Monday.