![]() In another segment, Erik Menendez seems to corroborate that Rosselló and José were alone together. In another scene, he points to Menendez in a photograph and says, “That’s the man, here, that raped me. ![]() “I know what he did to me in his house,” Rosselló says in a clip from the docuseries. There, he alleges, Menendez drugged and raped him. Díaz has refused to comment when asked about the allegations.īut according to Rosselló, Díaz also organized a visit to José Menendez’s home in New Jersey when the singer was only 14. Rosselló, who performed in Menudo from age 13 through 16 according to NBC’s Today, previously claimed in 2014 that band founder and manager Edgardo Díaz sexually abused him. Roy Rosselló, seen in a portrait for Menudo in 1985, claims José Menendez sexually assaulted him when he was 14. ![]() Their legal team argued they acted in self-defense out of fear their parents would kill them if they made their abuse public. The brothers, who admitted to the killings on tape, claimed their father had sexually abused them since childhood and that their mother enabled it. Roy Rosselló, 51, says in the upcoming docuseries Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed that José Menendez molested him while he was a teenage member of the group in the mid-1980s.Īfter the juries deadlocked in their first trials, Lyle and Erik Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in 1996 for the gruesome shooting deaths of José and their mother, Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, inside their Beverly Hills home on August 20, 1989. A former member of the boy band Menudo alleges José Menendez, the boy’s father, also targeted him. Now, they aren’t the only ones making such accusations. In 1999, the California Supreme Court also denied habeas corpus petitions filed by both Lyle and Erik Menendez.Convicted killers Lyle and Erik Menendez claimed they murdered their parents in self-defense after suffering years of emotional abuse and sexual assault at the hands of their father. The appellate court confirmed the brothers’ convictions in February 1998, and in May that same year petitions for review were also denied. “Jurors making this determination did not know of Erik’s letter to his cousin Andy, and they did not know that Jose Menendez had previously raped a 14-year-old boy,” the document reads.īoth Erik and Lyle Menendez have previously filed unsuccessful appeals on their convictions. In the petition, attorneys argue that the new evidence requires a review of the case. Every night I stay up thinking he might come in.” I never know when its going to happen and its driving me crazy. He so overweight that I can’t stand to see him. “It’s still happening Andy but its worse for me now. ![]() “I’ve been trying to avoid dad,” the letter, included in the petition, reads. “That’s the pedophile,” he says, pointing to Menendez.Īttorneys also cite a letter written in 1988 by Erik Menendez to his cousin, Andy Cano, about Jose Menendez. In the docuseries, Rosselló is seen looking at an old picture with Díaz and Menendez standing alongside members of the band. According to court records, Rosselló alleges that after he was raped in New Jersey, Jose Menendez also performed oral copulation on him before he appeared in a Menudo concert in New York.Īfter the concert, according to the declaration, Menendez then raped Rosselló in a hotel room. Rosselló, who provided a declaration in the case, has also expanded his allegations of abuse. Wednesday’s habeas corpus petition argues that new evidence suggests Jose Menendez abused other children and continued to abuse Erik Menendez.Īttorneys are asking the court to open an evidentiary hearing or to vacate the convictions and sentences. ![]() The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the petition, attorneys for the brothers note that during the second trial, after evidence of alleged abuse was excluded, prosecutors argued in court that the allegations of abuse were “a total fabrication” and that there was “no corroboration of sexual abuse.” In that trial, evidence of the alleged abuse was limited. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)Īlthough their first trials detailed years of alleged sexual abuse and ended with two hung juries, the brothers were retried and convicted in 1996. ![]()
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