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Kentucky recruit stabbed six times while on spring break

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A Kentucky football recruit was stabbed six times Saturday while visiting his son in Ohio during spring break.

Jordan Bonner, a junior college linebacker at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M — who is set to play at Kentucky next season — spent four days in the hospital after being stabbed in the chest, abdomen and back.

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“They said had he not been an athlete in good shape this would have been far worse,” Bonner’s mother, Karen Barhams, told Cleveland television station WJW.