This true crime docuseries on Peacock about the Menendez brothers (who killed their parents in Beverly Hills in the early 1990s) and testimony from members of the huge boy band Menudo (boys would be famously fired once they turned 16) and younger boys would be “auditioned”.
Eric & Lyle Menendez were the sons of Jose Menendez, president of RCA records. It seems the Menudo manager, Edgar Diaz, was a pedophile, and one of the Menudo members, who has since become an Evangelical minister in Brazil, also recounts a time when he was violently raped by Jose Menendez.
I remember this case, which seemed to be portrayed as spoiled rich kids who killed their parents to get their hands on the inheritance. I wasn’t aware of the multitude of witness for the defense, testifying about the boy’s reports of sexual abuse, suspicious behavior etc.
The first trial was a hung jury, when it was retried, all of the molestation and abuse was not allowed into evidence. The clincher was the prosecution said there was no evidence of Jose Menendez ever having molested any other individuals.
This new testimony brings that “clincher” into question.
In the course of three episodes, there are countless examples of this information (Menudo boys sexual abuse and rape at the hands of the manager) coming out in the NYPost, various talk shows in Puerto Rico and Latin America. All of it getting quite key squashed.
I remember at the time thinking it was ridiculous to think these boys were abused by their father for years. Thirty years later, it doesn’t seem so ridiculous.
Question:have any anons seen this evidence or these episodes and think that this may be another avenue of waking up people?
To let the Menendez brothers out of prison after 30 years if their conviction is overturned due to new evidence would potentially be a big red pill.
Just learning how many people have been abused as children is awful. But in the context of trusted community members or family is horrifying.
Can most of society stand up and decry the sexual abuse of children, given what us happening in schools right now?
Thoughts/discussion?
I start to question everything now.
"And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off; for truth has stumbled in the street, and uprightness cannot come in. And truth is lacking, and he who turns from evil becomes plunder (Isaiah 59:14-15)." All of Isaiah 59 describes the times we live in. There's nothing new under the sun, and the heart of man is incurably wicked. If we do not, individually and as a nation, turn back to God, not even Trump can save us.
One of the hardest things about being here is having to constantly re-evaluate the past and reality versus the narrative that was programmed into us. I agree that seeing how hard the MSM pounded that story into us, the child abuse allegations that were hidden, well, now I'm feeling very bad for those brothers.