Kat O’Brien covered the Texas Rangers for a number of years for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She later went on to cover baseball for New York Newsday before leaving sports reporting.
The New York Times has an essay from her today about her experience being raped by an MLB player in 2002, when she was 22 years old, a year out of Notre Dame and interviewing him for a story.
She talks about not telling anyone, fearing it would ruin her career, blaming herself for what happened. About having the pain and trauma dredged back up in the aftermath of the Jared Porter stories and firing this winter.