The son of legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler says that his father betrayed him after he told him he’d been sexually abused by the team doctor during a physical.
The son of legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler said Thursday that his father betrayed him after he told him he’d been sexually abused by the team doctor during a physical.
“This was the beginning of the end of my relationship with him,” Matt Schembechler said of his father, who died in 2006. “I hoped my father would protect me, but he didn’t.” Joining him at the news conference Thursday arranged by their lawyers were the two former players, Daniel Kwiatkowski and Gilvanni Johnson, who also described how they were abused by Anderson.
That report has already driven a wedge in the Schembechler family. Another of Schembechler’s sons, Shemy Schembechler, expressed skepticism last month that his father had ignored complaints about Anderson. But Thursday, Shemy Schembechler tweeted, “I love my brother Matt and I pray for him often.”
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