A former member of the boy band Menudo alleges in a brand new documentary collection that the slain father of the Menendez brothers raped him when he was a toddler.
Roy Rosselló’s allegation comes 27 years after siblings Lyle and Erik Menendez had been convicted of first-degree homicide within the 1989 slayings of their dad and mom, Jose Enrique Menendez and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, and sentenced to life in jail.
The brothers alleged throughout their trial that that they had been sexually, bodily and emotionally abused since they had been younger youngsters and mentioned they acted out of worry and hatred after they shot their dad and mom to loss of life of their Beverly Hills mansion. Protection attorneys mentioned the siblings feared their dad and mom would kill them after they threatened to show the alleged abuse.
In a Tuesday report concerning the upcoming Peacock docuseries “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed,” NBC’s “At present” present famous that through the trial — which captured the nation’s consideration within the mid-Nineties — a choose deemed all testimony of sexual abuse irrelevant and inadmissible. Nevertheless, Rosselló’s new allegations of sexual assault towards Jose Menendez may probably assist the brothers’ case almost three a long time later.
“I at all times hoped and believed that in the future the reality about my dad would come out,” Erik Menendez says in a clip from the collection that aired on “At present.” “However I by no means wished for it to come back out like this: the results of trauma that one other youngster has suffered.”
“We’d heard rumors that one thing might need occurred with Menudo by way of the years,” Lyle Menendez says within the clip. “ that that may have made a distinction at trial.”
In response to “At present,” Rosselló alleges within the docuseries that Jose Menendez molested, drugged and raped him when the then-teenager was performing with the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo and Jose Menendez was the pinnacle of RCA Information. The 51-year-old was a member of the ever-changing group from 1983 to 1986.
“That’s the person right here that raped me,” Rosselló says within the clip whereas pointing at a photograph of the late music govt. “That’s the pedophile.”
“It’s time for the world to know the reality,” he provides.
Although Rosselló’s revelation is a “glimmer of hope” for the Menendez brothers, felony protection legal professional Alan Jackson instructed “At present” that leveraging the allegation to foyer for his or her exoneration and freedom can be a posh course of involving a petition and one other trial.
Directed by Esther Reyes, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” begins streaming Could 2 on Peacock.
