Sugar Ray Leonard’s Childhood Abuse Revelation: Yet Another Example of the Need to Protect Our Boys

Sugar Ray Leonard’s Childhood Abuse Revelation: Yet Another Example of the Need to Protect Our Boys

It used to be that when parents thought about sexual abuse, they thought of little girls, but in recent years, everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the widespread abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have brought the sexual abuse of young boys to the forefront. Celebrities, such as writer and author Tyler Perry, actor Gabriel Byrne who was molested at a seminary school, and Ireland and Cincinnati Bengals’ Laveraneus Coles, have revealed their childhood abuse. The latest celebrity to reveal childhood sexual abuse is Sugar Ray Leonard, who was abused by a prominent Olympic boxing coach at age 15.

Sugar Ray Leonard writes of child sexual abuse