Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Sugar Ray says he was sexually abused

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Qcitymetro.com is reporting that former boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard is claiming that when he was a teenaged boy a “prominent” Olympic coach sexually abused him.

Leonard makes the claim in his upcoming autobiography, "The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring."

Leonard, now 55, said he was first assaulted by the unnamed coach when he was 15 years old. Leonard said that after being haunted for years by the ordeal, he decided to reveal it in the hopes of furthering his own healing process.

"I realized I would never be free unless I revealed the whole truth, no matter how much it hurt," he wrote.

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