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UPenn Wharton Grad, Former Sports Writer Kat O'Brien Says She Was Raped By MLB Player In 2002 UPenn Wharton Grad, Former Sports Writer Kat O'Brien Says She Was Raped By MLB Player In 2002
UPenn Wharton Grad, Former Sports Writer Kat O'Brien Says She Was Raped By MLB Player In 2002 Former sports reporter Kat O'Brien has opened up about being raped by a Major League Baseball player when she was 22 years old. O'Brien -- who graduated from UPenn's Wharton School of Business -- kept the incident a secret until now, when she told her story in a "New York Times" essay. The now-40-year-old writer says she had just graduated from Notre Dame and was working as a (mostly high school) sports reporter for "The Fort Worth Star-Telegram" in 2002. She was in a hotel room with an interview subject for a longer piece on foreign-born athletes in the U.S., when things took a frigh…

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