Lyle Menendez’s Testimony About Being Sexually Abused by His Mother | The Menendez Brothers
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- Pictures were found of the brothers' naked bodies at 6 and 8 years old which had their heads cut off and focused on their genitals. 6 year old Erik appears to have an erection in one of the photos.
The envelope containing those photographs had their mother's handwriting on it that said "Erik's 6th birthday."
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when ur forced to tell the whole world that you were raped by your father and sexually abused by your mother, and you STILL end up with life imprisonment. im so sorry
What would’ve been an appropriate sentence in your opinion? I saw the Netflix special (insane! Horrific abuse!) but I feel conflicted about them. They did murder the parents brutally. Would you have recommended a shorter sentence or???
@@rsvpevents678010 years because yes, they took those lives but they were motivated by a lifetime of abuse. That type of abuse changes the brain even. So yeah 10 years and psychological treatment throughout and after.
@@rsvpevents6780 Their second trial did not allow much of the abuse testimony. They likely wouldn’t have received the same sentence had they been allowed to admit that evidence.
Self-Defense.
100 percent self defense. Such an injustice for everyone. 😢
What angers me the most is they were forced to sit there and unravel their trauma in court and then received life in prison. I can't imagine how that must of felt for them. Sickening
This trail was a mistrial
You know what else is wrong how snl made skits about it
I agree
Victim blaming
Agreed!!! How sick is our justice system! The justice system should pay for these guys to be released! Sounds like their parents were the monsters for sure!
So both parent were sexually abusing their children. That’s sick
Demonic evil predators posing as ‘parents’
That’s why she was okay with the father doing it.. it’s sad but this happens all the time.
I agree VERY SICK 😢
Allegedly! We're just supposed to believe the words of a murderer?? How foolish are people? We need evidence to be sure. There is no solid evidence
Yes it is yet most people don't plan and murder their parents. You aren't allowed to murder your abusers 👍
no wonder he lost his hair at the age of 14, so much stress and abuse.
Thats true. His body was fighting against the stress and pain
I've thought exactly the same.
Body works in weird ways.
So true because of stress when I was young my hair started to turn grey as a teenager
I agree i think the same he lost his hair 😈
What the hell is wrong with these parents?!?! Free the Menendez Brothers NOW.
so evil 😢
@divamontoya5283 I know, it makes me so sad to think of all the torture they went through. 😢
Well they got their just deserts and may i say rightfully so.... The so called parents im referring to
The government supports sexual abuse
Yes. Exactly. What is wrong with these Menendez parents. I don't understand them at all. OMG seriously
You can just feel the shame he feels. This is devastating.
And so unjustly so 😣🥺
@@DailyJoyFromTheBibleboth
then sentenced to life in prison. so sick
Definitely shame. Sa victims feel intense shame. Now add in incest with that… it’s awful
@@DailyJoyFromTheBible there is shame too. I can’t remember if it was Lyle or Erick but the said they were embarrassed because they felt pleasure, not realizing it’s a natural reaction of the body
I think the mom was insecure because the dad would rather sleep with his sons than her. That is pure insanity
this.
I think she was cut from the same cloth as the dad. Just an abusive, insane, narcissist.
Nonsense, she too was a pea do .She was not abusing her children because she " felt insecure ".
@@keepitreal665 nice one captain obvious!!! 👏 👏 👏
Evil get worse in a sick house
As a therapist this sickens me what these boys went through and still in prison wrong sentence! Shame on all in the court system during both trials who didn’t advocate for them!
Shame on everyone, indeed. They did not deserve that sentence. That judge should be shamed for not allowing a fair trial.
Exactly!!
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You do not need to be a therapist to know murder is WRONG. Do you know how many people were SA as kids by fathers, uncles, cousins, etc., and they do not kill??!
No justification for their actions.
@brandyyolidio4213 you can have 2 children grow up in the same house, experiencing the same things & each one will have their own level of trauma. Unless you been there don't be so sure.
The shaking in his voice is so heartbreaking, I know that he's embarrassed and devastated talking about it. U can totally see him and Erik in their expression and body language they are not making any of what they went through up. God give these 2 men a better life they deserve to be nurtured as well just happy.
😢 heartbreaking, they should be out of prision
@@pilarhuerta5706 Definitely
You guys have to remember that back in the 80s and 90s sexual abuse wasn’t a thing and not talked about, and the men in the jury didn’t believe boys could be sexually molested especially not by their dad
Then I would like to say thank you to the Menéndez brothers, Lyle and Erik as well as their legal team for raising awareness. It took the bravery of many many people to cause the 'me too' movement, expose what is happening in huge circles such as churches. This testimony made a difference. It moved people to speak up. Right now there is a case in France of a woman who was drugged by her husband and 'given' to his 'friends' - Dominique Pelicot. She has chosen to have this trail publicly. (There is a similar case in the Philippines.)
To Erik and Lyle I want to say please acknowledge yourselves for being part of the movement exposing exploitation. I want to acknowledge you for moving society forward. For taking something terrible that happened to you and allowing society to see what needs to change. Where we are all falling short. It is going to take a collective effort to prevent this kind of abuse happening and your story is part of it. Thank you.
Actually in this trial it was ruled a mistrial cos they couldn’t decide on murder or manslaughter. It was another interactive trial where the Judge refused a lot of the abuse evidence because they wanted to ensure they were imprisoned.
I don’t ever remember sexual abuse not “being a thing”….
@@jenna80532right
This is 100 percent not true. Sexual abuse was a thing and was talked about. We even learned about pedophiles on shows like Different Strokes in the 70s for Gods sake. Also, they killed their parents in the 90s so by this time we even had Americas most wanted and knew of violent sexual violence.
The more I hear, the more angry I get. I get that murder isn’t okay and that the men had to do time. I think they should go free now. They’re not a threat to society.
Makes me angry as well!!! Horrible!!!
Agreed 1000% THEY SHOULD BE FREE
Well said!
@@GDeanG1963 thank you.
that last sentence, 100%. they are NOT, it was out of self defense from this unimaginable abuse and these horrific, HORRIFIC events. they are not threats whatsoever. i agree with your whole comment. so much.
They are grown men but I can feel the helplessness whenever they speak about the abuse they experienced in the hands of their parents.
They were stunted, mental age of 10 psychs said. Erik dissociates on the stand too 😢
Age=/= mentality. They have medical problems MULTIPLE medical and physical trauma from the abuse. They don't think, function and act the same way a normal adult male would.
Here, they were barely adult
Esos padres tan horrorosos
Y ésto fue hace 30 años ..😢😢😢😢
I can’t believe SNL made skits about this, that’s so awful
SNL has no brain left. I noticed it long time ago. It's a shame.
SNL just stopped being funny it's all about political correctness now, SJW theme it's all boring 😴
💯💯
SNL made a skit featuring The Rock
In the skit, the scientist created a ‘child mo!3$+!ng’ machine
Snl fell off years ago karma
As a feminist, I vehemently believe we need to prioritize normalizing men to talk about their traumas, abuse, sexual violations, because rape is rape, regardless of whether it happens to a man or woman. Pray he heals.
Feminism has destroyed relationship so bad I could never be a feminist
With that opinion, how can you even be a feminist? What rights are you fighting for that you don't already have in the western world?
You can’t be a feminist? You can’t believe in equality between men and women?
@@burgundyjaydeno it hasn’t, males need to accept the new normal that they can’t expect women to work a 9-5 and do all the housework and childcare.
Indeed im in shock ..and i feel embarrass man these questions are like stabbing them
Why are they still in prison? This is so sad their parents were monsters!
The justice system is a joke I'm glad they took it into their own hands or I doubt their parents would have ever received justice any other way
They are still there 😢
That's why the brothers were fucked up because their mother didn't protect them. 😢😢
@kathygonzalezs1413 so true,anyone who has been brought up this way is going to be affected 😳
Sick people marry sick people, my parents were both mentally ill. They didn’t know that they were not thinking clearly…. And they played off of each other, and sometimes it was the opposite they fought over the kids. Eventually they kinda divided up the kids like picking teams so two kids were on mom‘s team and two kids were on dad‘s team. My parents would talk badly about the other team . Things like “We can’t trust them because they are loyal to Dad” “Don’t tell them anything we talk about because she will tell Dad”. My sister was younger and she couldn’t help but tell me things…. She said that my mom would tell her stuff that she shouldn’t have heard. Personal stuff It’s sad when grown adults don’t have control of themselves… it affects their children.
The ultimate horrifying betrayal of how a mother should treat their son. He looks like he's about to emotionally cave in and break down. There should be no softening of this, no calling it sex or inspecting, it is straight up forced incest and child molestation.
Exactly 🎉
He’s a broken man 🥲🥲
Right.
I can’t imagine his pain , embarrassment for him to tell the family secret
I agree. What the hell would they gain from saying these awful, embarrassing, humiliating things? They already said they killed their parents. It's not as though they wouldn't have served any jail time. It just doesn't make sense that they'd share all of this if it weren't true.
Erik admitted to his therapist that they murdered his parents but didn't ever mention sexual abuse... it would have been 1000 % more believable if he did. But he didn't. They both never did mention that to the therapist. They said it was to get out of their parents control and because they were being taken out of the will.
@@peach0naleashExactly!
@@peach0naleash it's extremely shameful to tell this to anyone.
@@peach0naleashNo wonder, they were very young, ashamed and scared.
If Gypsy Rose Blanchard who manipulated her boyfriend to kill her abusive mother be released from prison after only 9 years why do the Menendez brothers have to spend the rest of their lives in prison? They were abused too how is it fair?
I literally thought about the same thing.. so unfair
Cause they are men. The justice system is always harsher on men. That's the truth
Why are y’all comparing them? Those two cases are very different from each other.
no cause it’s so true
Because the Men on the jury didn’t believe a father could harm his sons like this.
They need a retrial. Evil, evil parents!
Sick is the right word
I agree!
@@sweetiepie4328 If i parent rape a child how you call it? A mentally healthy person? Im making the image in my head just close your eyes and image the image a father fucking a son Disgusting? ill? Scary? Horendeous? And its not even my first language English im trying to find the most suitable word.
@@sweetiepie4328right.
@@sweetiepie4328 only sick people molest and abuse children
damn their parents were evil psychopaths
JUSTICE, for the Menéndez brothers , this was so sick , evil parents. Free them now .
There's no justice idiot if there were justice these kids won't be abused raped and in prison.
I can't believe people think they lied 😢
People couldn’t wrap their head around it back then- even now. So infuriating
even oprah didnt believe them.
Frs. Noone had anything good said about the parents+ the family doesn't blame them. Their cousins' testimonies align with their anecdotes, supported by medical records and psychological evaluations reflecting symptoms seen in sexually abused children. There is a whole reddit that sites everything related to every testimony and medical records.
People act dumb to the abuse or act like it's easy to escape rich controlling parents that can find you anywhere and obviously doesn't mind hurting you.
No male ever spoke up about being abused back then so when they claimed that they were sexually abused, not just by a woman but also by a man - nobody believed it because no guy ever ever ever talked about being raped. EVER.
@@PozoBlue Oprah is a sorry excuse for a human being. She ridiculed them then had the balls to have an episode about male abuse victims 16 years later.
How are they in jail? If Gypsy Rose is free, they should have a retrial.
While I agree, Gypsy rose didn’t physically commit the act like Eric and Lyle did.
Don't compare. Gypsy is a manipulative psychopath who even now says her grandfather (Who by the way defended her and claimed his own daughter got what she deserved) raped her. You can have your doubts with siblings, but not with Gypsy.
The Gypsy case is extremely different, apples and oranges. Don’t even try to pull a gender card.
Gypsy didn’t kill her mother but it was her boyfriend tho lol
It was Gypsy’s idea to kill her mother.
And these boys were sexually abused. Very horrible. Let’s not side with pedos like the government of California does.
Some don’t deserve to be parents. Pure evil
I agree totally. Some people should be prevented from having children ......I wish my mother and father had.....as a child I often wished that I had not been born. I understand and empathize with the sons totally.
4:58 “ took it to be love and that’s what I wanted” let that sink in. The most vulnerable people on the planet are children they look to us for guidance and safety and all the things and supposedly these parents violated that so badly so so badly. And all their children were doing was being manipulated into doing their wants. Just absolutely heartbreaking.
The way he says, "she was like an angel" about his ex girlfriend 😢
right, stood out to me too how both of them talked about their girlfriends
@@Dani-lc9hqthey were deprived of love and positive attention so they found refuge in their relationships and friendships. It’s so sad 😞
I know that was beautiful when he said that about his girlfriend wow.
The travesty of the system to not allow this evidence into the second trial is absolutely maddening.
It's because there was no tangible evidence of it.
Thats the lawless system for u
That is enraging really !!!
This case is genuinely one of the greatest injustices I've ever heard of. I can't believe that two victims had to sit and talk about these things, and how traumatic it must have been to even relive them, let alone tell strangers, and that even having done so, they ended up with life in prison. It's just so wrong. I hope their trauma can end soon. I know it will always be there, but I hope that they can be free and at least have it officially known that a wrong was done to them by the system, because people were ignorant and prejudiced, and they can experience life as it should be. My heart breaks with every new thing I learn about their ordeal. All I can think is that at least they have each other for support, and have families too who are backing them. Why did nobody protect these boys when they were in such desperate need of help? I just cannot understand it. They were failed by so many people.
Si la verdad, si eso fuera en esta época las cosas serían a otro precio, yo creo que hoy en día hay más humanidad, más solidaridad, más actos de buena voluntad, la juventud apoyan a estos chicos, se consuelan muchísimo si claman por la LIBERTAD, para estos chicos.
Free them
Their parents were pure sick
This fukin jury belongs in hell too
they should have only got 10 years... not life in prison. They were sexually and mentally abused by the people who were to love and protect them.
Should not got jail time at all.
Or just MINIMUM time..
I personally feel like they should be free.I do understand getting the minimum if they were going guilty. Bless these boys now men.
They should have been acquitted
Free Lyal and Eric! They have spent enough time in prison now. Their parents were monsters, those boys did society a favor and saved other children from being molested and raped by these monster parents..
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As a parent, i just cannot fathom this depravity exists. I know it does, unfortunately, but i just cannot get over the fact it does. It is beyond sickening. These brothers should be released. Any sin they MIGHT have committed in their short lives, has long been paid for. I pray for their wellbeing.
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Nobody should have to go through what they've been through. They deserve to be happy for whatever years they have left
Well said
How do we know if they are telling the truth???
@ad8447 I was either a late teen or early 20s when this happened. Sexual abuse wasn't spoken of back then, especially males. I had SA in my life, I can tell by their reservoir of emotions and testimony that it was true. Some cousins, aunts also had clues and suspected too. Now a young guy who was in boy band Menudo which was managed by their father Jose said he was raped by their father as well. I 💯 believe them. I did then and do now.
I don’t condone murder for any reason but these brothers need to be freed and need to forgive and be forgiven in repentance, they paid their debt , enough is enough ! You must take their home life in to consideration and free them now . The best years of their life is over .
To lay out your horrific trauma for the entire world to see and then still end up with life in jail...wtf ?! This is absolutely heartbreaking. Release them NOW
The testimony seen here was given in the trial that ended in a mistral.. It was the next trial where this testimony was not allowed to be given when they were sentenced to life.
@@leiakikihow does that even work, how can a trial be held if they dont hear the full story?
@@okdude8215 Judge Stanley Weisberg determined that the accusations of abuse could not be substantiated, being that the stories were hearsay and there was no proof. Based on a legal decision by the Supreme Court in an unrelated case, he limited testimony about sa claims and only allowed the jury to vote manslaughter charges for Josè but not for Kitty. Also, he did not allow cameras in the court room during the second trial.
@@okdude8215it sucks that it happens all the time and they shouldn’t have had the same judge.
They should have thought of that before they did what they did. Trials take place after crimes like this, they want to share it bc they wanted to be free.
the pain in his voice as he is talking about it 😢
And his eyes
I was already grossed out by the dad, but I didn’t realize the mom was sexually abusing them too. Like it’s bad enough she turned a blind eye to the dad’s abuse but she was involved too. I can’t imagine anyone doing this to their own children ugh
Exactly. It doesn't seem like she was forced to abuse her kids. Like Jose made her. She was a sick piece of garbage all on her own free will and desire to.
Im sorry you cannot fake these emotions
Proving nothing other than your complete lack of education and, probably, integrity.
@@eddieanderson8055 What are you really saying and who has a lack of education and integrity?
@@jeannetteviviers9851 Come back when you have developed some skills in reading comprehension. I don't debate willfully dishonest people.
@@eddieanderson8055 I think you did a pretty good job there of doing that for yourself
@eddieanderson8055 you cant debate anything dude...nor can you read
Those two people were both very sick. Very sick. How awful. They were tortured, psychologically, physically, you name it. They did what they had to do.
"They did what they had to do!" Lol
One of the first elite kids to speak up. Finally people are listening...
Elite? Who were his parents?
@@cookiecoby4322father was big shot in music industry
@@cookiecoby4322 unfortunately Alot of people in the "industry" are involved in some dark twisted stuff. How convenient that it is so "unbelievable" that they DON'T get believed for that reason. Who's gonna believe this? Here we have pictures of the kids taken by parents of their genitals and they are STILL NOT believed... Wtf? Unbelievable that they have proof there was no way out and so they made their own way out.
The prosecutor for this case should be locked up for throwing away the sexual abuse evidence during their second trial. This was vital into a correct sentencing.
And the judge. Bunch of scheming rats!
It was the judge who didn’t allow it to be brought into the second trial.
Exactly and they did it to save face for losing the OJ trial. They didn’t want to lose yet another high profile TV case. This is why the media shouldn’t be allowed in courts.
How traumatized he is. Oh God, they been through hell and still in jail after getting raped by their parents hundreds of times
This breaks my heart... Hearing the pain in his voice
It breaks my heart too 💔 😭
How did this not all come out at the 1st trial? Those poor boys, what evil parents 😡
This is from the 1st trial
@@chantelasol5881 how on earth were they jailed for so long then? Cannot fathom the logic 😲
@micheletotton9342 I agree. They're still in jail, unfortunately, and they don't see much hope with regards to an appeal. Even with new evidence (an ex member of boy band Menudo recently came out saying he was raped by Jose Menendez when he was just 14 years old and signed to RCA- Jose Menendez was the executive of RCA). At the time of the trial sexual assault around children was still very misunderstood/taboo and not talked about as much as today. I hope that one day, they get an appeal trial/pardon.
Those poor guys, when I see their faces whilst testifying in court is heartbreaking
@@micheletotton9342the first trial was hung due to the jury not being able to come up with a result but the second trial was very corrupted the judge disallowed evidence and witnesses as well as only letting some of their most crucial witnesses testify during penalty phase when a murder verdict had already been decided
Sounds like the mum got twisted by the influence of her husband, they abused their children! Once Lyle refused she took it out on Eric!
The mom was twisted. The dad also. Could you figure how was the atmosphere in that house, in this family. 😮 Heavy and twisted. These parents are abuser and pedophiles.
The Mom came from a serious broken home as well, I don't think SA, however some people repeat the trauma as José did as well....THIS BREAKS MY HEART IN SO MANY PIECES 4 THEM
Cannot believe how easy it is to believe them, some people believe anything, pitiful
They lost their childhoods because of the evil depravity of their parents, and then the rest of their lives because of a miscarriage of justice. They never should have been given a sentence this long.
Christ. Kitty was just as bad as José was.
Because she didn't protect the boys 😭
@@kathygonzalez1413 but she also was sexually abusing them
@@monicarenee7949That's awful, not only torturing them emotionally, mentally, physically but sexually too. Now I'm wondering why She was so upset examinating the other brother's parts, they both could even got infected by his own STD'S parents, because they both seemed to be very promiscuous specially the Father. This is very sick! FREE THEM NOW!!!
In the time they have been in prison, Gypsy Rose has been conceived, born, grown up with a controlling manaic, got to adulthood, used the internet to have connections, put a hit on her mother online, been busted, served her time and is now out. People didn't even have the internet when they went behind bars and mobile phones were some novelty waste of money back then. It seems excessive that they're still locked up.
My thoughts exactly. I think it's because they're MEN because in the first trial the male jurors were not sympathetic. Unfortunately it was the make jurors who said men can not be abused and said they were guilty.
I have two words for you: Becca Scoops.
The sad thing is people had a stigma about sexual abuse from mothers. Many refused that it could happen. These men got called liars simply because people REFUSED to acknowledge mothers could do this! THEY CAN AND HAVE FOR MANY CHILDREN!!!
People back then also thought no father would ever rape his own son. NO ONE talked about that back then, so people thought it was impossible.
And that is incredibly stupid, to make such a sweeping assumption. Are "mothers" exempt from all badness just because they're mothers? No. They are the SAME PEOPLE they were before they had children--except in some cases they get worse; the stresses & pressure of parenting brings out the worst in them. Mommies are just PEOPLE, not inherently more pure or moral. But they should be.
Not as often seen with mother's. Then it's seen with father's. But yes it happens. Who cares about them telling the truth. Their parents are dead. Tell the truth. This was their truth and they were punished for telling it.
These parents were absolutely insane.
I know!!!! I think the mother may have possibly been even maybe making him possibly fuck her in her asshole!!! It's so sad!! Poor guy!!!! It's so tragic!!!! She was an evil woman for that!!!!
Yes they were.
After hearing this,i can't believe that some people don't feel sympathy for these guys and don't believe them.
Listening to all of this so heartbreaking!
FREE THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS NOW!
After dealing with this disgusting treatment by their parents, they deserve to get the heck out of prison.
I feel if they were tried today they would walk free.
No really, they comited a crime. But the penalty definitely would be different.
They wouldn’t have walked free. They likely would have cut a deal like Gypsy did.
I have 12 children, 9 boys and 3 girls, and I can not fathom thinking anything about my babies, especially my son's. I never trusted no one with my babies. I am so sorry.
12 children your to worn out to touch anyways ! Lol
She was so gross. I didn’t know this. I knew that she ignored the disgustingness the dad was doing, but I did NOT know that she was exposing herself and trying to be sexual with her child, HER BABY. My head cannot comprehend.
@michellebaezrivera2244 I didn’t know this either . It’s absolutely disgusting & horrific what she did to her own child. Just sickening as hell.. I’d die for my sons or daughter I’d never ever violate my child in any way. Some parents don’t deserve to even have the title of a parent …
*That* swim trunks picture was in it's packet with the mother's handwriting on it, seemed to be a casual note as if the picture was just about for quick easy viewing.
The father paid her no mind and cheated on her..and found her son's more appealing than her...that's why she hates her children..she was being abused too
Demonic predators posing as ‘parents’
Thankkkk you my mom told me I was 2 years old when that happened my mom told me the mom use to make out with her own son
This breaks my heart.. those poor children. They never knew what a happy life was..
They are GROWN!
a retrial is much needed
That would be the 3rd. They should receive clemency or a commuted sentence.
What was actually wrong with the parents for them to abuse and molest their kids like this??
Sick ppl
Their dad was a trouble kid in Cuba before migrated to the U.S .
They are malignant narcissists. Sexually deviant.
They were probably abused too.
Other cases of this magnitude have been acquitted. These boys were convinced they would die after the secret was out.
I'm surprised the netflix series didnt fully talk about the abuse from the mom and EVERYTHING she did!!!
Right !!!
Netflix no didnt have a good vieuw
Oh Netflix is releasing a documentary that tells their story Oct 3 to make up for the backlash
There seems to be a push to not show women as abusers in the media. They are. Males are victims. Everyone is always expected to make a disclaimer how women have it worse when discussing male victims but we should not have to do that ever.
@@kw9568 she undressed and asked him if she was beautiful sick b. She would get real close to his face like she was going to kiss him. And when she did these things she would go off on him
I am Sorry Little child
This comment made me cry. Thank you for caring about the child in them
When people look right as they recall memories, they are being truthful. He constantly looks right.
Interesting…
Where’s the truth to that theory?
That’s not true, people have their own normal patterns of recollection specific to the individual.
This is just a myth, just like the myth that people will look you in the eyes when being truthful. Both are a load of crap, as all individuals are different. These theories have been debunked a long time ago, but still people are continuing to say these things, especially controlled opposition like Jordan Peterson, who just recently made a video claiming this false myth about eye contact and truthfulness... It's to cause misunderstandings and conflicts amongst people.
In college I was taught that people look up when recalling something they saw, towards their ear when recalling something they heard and towards their hands for something they did.
I don’t know how accurate that is, just relaying information.
Truw
Lyle & Erik I’m so sorry for all the years of pain that u had to endure at the hands of your own parents💔 The justice system definitely failed you guys, the jury did too!
@@miamarez2881 really the judge and Pam the prosecutor because the second trail there were not allowed to bring up the sexual abuse!! How sad is that? Thanks to them LA could NOT afford to loose another high profile case like the OJ trail that was right before theirs
This is the saddest thing in the world
They were abused by their parents, now abused by the system, keeping them sitting , recalling painful memories.. with a life in prison sentence
Praying for the freedom and healing of Lyle and Eric.
Why are these brothers still in jail?
I don't know 😞😭
System Americans
I’m a trauma therapist. This is trauma not lies.
He is speaking the truth. He maintains a level of eye contact. How desperate these boys must have felt. Such a manipulation of their youth. They had to escape to save themselves. They did what would permanently release them from their abuse. Now, it's time for them to be released from a prison term that was unjust to begin with. It was such a travesty of a trial.
The Mom had a mental problem.
Don’t make excuses for her she was a pedo.
Their parents were crazy and terrible 😭
They were evil. Not sick.
No shit
dependant personality disorder, i heard it in the other woman in the netflix doc with her adoptive child buried in the backyard as well, and the mother that let her boyfriend abuse her kid, soto something cant remember, thats how these men get away with this
This sickening. FREE the MENENDEZ Brothers. They have suffered enough.
They dont belong in prison. They never did. A mental rehabilitation plave sure. But not prison. Theyve been punished enough in this life.
Wicked evil parents!!! What’s wrong with you, you sentenced these innocent people until they die!!!!! Free them NOW!!!OMG
Speaking as someone who is coming from a home where abuse very similar to what these boys went through took place and there being a reality out there where this type of documentary was made about me it was that bad, i was violently sa'd several times a week from 4 years old to 13 years old when i was finally big enough to fight back against my abuser, even having my colon ruptured and a disc dislocated in the same assault because of how brutal he was being and him being too big for my malnourished body to handle his size with that level of force without tearing, these men _are guilty._ they murdered their parents and they deserved to do time for that. But the aggravating factor and nature of their childhood means they should not have been given life. I truly empathize with these men because there were days i almost did the same thing to escape the abuse i endured my whole life, but what they did was wrong. There were ways for them to get away without killing their parents. I know because i did it, i ran away at 14 and have been on my own ever since supporting myself. It took an insane amount of hard work and it was extremely difficult at times but it was infinitely better than what was happening at home. So while i understand that they needed to make it stop and i can't fault them that much because there were times where i was strongly considering doing it myself, but i made the choice not to and they could have too. But they didn't and they deserved to be punished for that but life was an unbelievably harsh punishment and they should have been out years and years ago. They didn't deserve what was done to them as children but that doesn't excuse murder is all i am trying to say.
‘Parents’ let’s not offend real parents.
If it was the Menendez sisters instead of the Menendez brothers that did the same thing the Menendez sisters would have never ever ever ever went to prison what a miscarriage of Justice
There are thousands of women incarcerated for killing their abusers.
The audacity to ask why is it unfair.Sick questions to poor brothers😢
I thought the same thing!! What is wrong with that lady to ask that? Didn't she listen to any of the testimony?
@@shadowfax9177she’s his lawyer she’s trying to get the jury to understand how awful this was
When you see how critically and unsympathetically they were interrogated in court, you understand why they decided to eliminate instead of pressing charges against the parents: With their power and this zeitgeist, they probably wouldn't have stood a chance.
Right
Gypsy Rose didnt even get this much time for killing her mom!
It also shows how molestation works when
its a male and not a female being abused.
I get that but Gypsy didn’t commit the murder, the boyfriend did. And Gypsy took a deal, she didn’t go to trial.
No wonder they killed their parents. The trauma makes people go crazy. They just want it to stop
Exactly
Mothers don't do this to their children!!😢😢😢
Damn right
They do. It’s the worst kept secret.
Maybe in a perfect world mothers don't do this to their children however in the REAL world which we all live in, mother's do this more often than you think or care to know.
More true than people want to admit.
I carried a sign in the Me Too movement in Hollywood
that read free Eric, and Lyle
six years ago
Congrats, you want a cookie for that? Like tf this isn’t about you ma’am or a little sign you made
@@missym877😂
👏 Used to live in LA. Glad you did this to show more activism and advocacy for these two men.
Hell yes!!!
@@ninaraval302 identify with them
Murder isn't solution but I can't stand these testimonies it's awful, and they both deserve freedom
The mom probably had no loving relationship with the father because of his perversions. Often these mothers turn to their sons to “fulfill” that role
Or daughters. It's very sick!
And why she hated her sons for “stealing her husband” from her. So sick.
That is sick. These mothers should just have affairs with other men instead of molesting their own kids.
Soooo disgusting! And I don’t think it’s often, I think they would cheat on their husbands more often then sexually abuse their own son
Tortured by their parents, tortured by the law, tortured by the media. A life of torture.
Devastating they fact they got jailed for life is such a miscarriage of justice
They should be set free. They don't deserve this.
This man is telling the truth.
If the Psychopathic parents were both sick enough to do that to their own children, they probably had other victims too. How disgusting 🤮!! It’s awful 😢 this even happened!!
The father's victim is speaking out.
They did. One of the Menudo boys swears by and is prepared to go to court about how the father drugged and raped him at the age of 14.
After watching this, I realized that Lyle was being so transparent and honest about his abuse! When you’re a child with people that are supposed to care and love for you and you are only exposed to a certain environment, abuse is overlooked by the victim because all you care about is making them happy and weather is physical abuse, violence or sexual assault the victim doesn’t know any better! I am a survivor of sexual and physical abuse and it’s part of my past that still affects me till today! Started at 7 years old and stopped when I was 19… by different close people.
I'm sorry that you went through this horrible ordeal, I hope you heal, I hope you find Jesus ❤ 😢
Thank you Rebecca. Indeed I’ve been saved by The Lord and Savior… Jesus our king
This poor kid lost his hair at age 16. That was a big red flag for me. I've always believed them.
Let’s pray for the Mendez brothers I feel their desperation and pain .
Let them go home please 🙏
I'm glad new evidence against the father is being revealed. Better late than never. How could anyone think they were lying is beyond me.
I believe him. Its a disgrace that they got life with no parole ....they need to be released now.
When do you hear the rapist or molesters get life in prison I’m so pissed that this verdict was allowed
I’ve never heard of it
Their parents are the monsters
If I was EITHER Brother, I would PUBLICLY CHANGE MY WHOLE NAME TO DISASSOCIATE from BOTH PARENTS. HOW could they KEEP ANYTHING tied or connected to those evil people?
He was definitely telling the truth and then they get life in prison. WTF!!!
Jose (hope he's burning in Hell somewhere) eventually backed off from Lyle and moved onto Erik, but it's like Kitty took over the abuse for Lyle. My head hurts. No wonder they kiled them both. No wonder Lyle finished her off.
God, this poor guy, to have to say all this stuff, and to have endured all this
If anyone knows about trauma especially sexual abuse children pull their hair out or pull their skin off or bite nails to the bone.. Remember Lyle wore a Tupa because his hair was thin and bald before 18 years old..classic sign of sexual abuse
No, alopecia is no classical sign of sexual abuse. Stress can trigger an underlying genetical component, though, sure. Any major or long-term stress, doesn't have to be traumatic. Stop exagerating.
No, alopecia is no classical sign of sexual abuse. Stress can trigger an underlying genetical component, though, sure. Any major or long-term stress, doesn't have to be traumatic. Stop exagerating.
@@Ichi-San-1501its not alopecia. He was pulling the hair out himself. Alopecia is when it falls out.
Toupee
@@Ichi-San-1501 I'm a mental health nurse practitioner I do this for a living, so you go away.. I also worked for Johns Hopkins for 15 years and we dealt with the worst of mental illness So find someone else to speak to you When you get your medical degree in mental health than we can talk so now you will be blocked so exaggerate that
I just don't understand how people can sexually abuse children let alone their own children. I'm a mother and no thought like that has ever crossed my mind. These poor kids were finally at their wit's end with the horrible abuse they went through only to get life in prison. They rid this world of 2 nasty people that didn't deserve to be breathing.
Demons exist. This is why we all need to call God and cast out the demons whispers
What these two went through is just beyond. I feel for them, they were desperate for a way out. We’ve learned so much more about trauma and abuse since this that the public’s response would be totally different if this happened today.