Ex-Menudo singer says he was raped by father of the Menendez brothers – National | 24CA News
Former Menudo singer Roy Rosselló claims he was sexually abused by José Menendez, saying that the daddy of convicted killers Lyle and Erik Menendez – generally often known as the Menendez Brothers – sexually assaulted him when he was a teen.
Rosselló makes the startling claims in an upcoming three-part docuseries that can start airing on NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, on May 2.
The assertion first aired Tuesday, when NBC’s Today present outlined among the findings reported by the docuseries’ journalists Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan.
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“I know what he did to me in his house,” Rosselló is heard saying in a clip from Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed. He alleges that José Menendez, who was an govt at RCA Records on the time, sexually assaulted him when he was a younger member of the favored Nineteen Eighties boy band.
He claimed the abuse occurred in Menendez’s New Jersey residence when Rosselló was 14 years previous, and alleges he was drugged earlier than the alleged molestation.
“That’s the man here that raped me,” Rosselló says within the clip, pointing at what seems to be a photograph of Menendez. “This guy. That’s the pedophile.”
Singer Roy Rossello of the pop group Menudo poses for a portrait circa 1985 in New York City, N.Y.
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Menendez was affiliated with Menudo as a result of he had signed the group to RCA Records.
In the trailer, one other particular person is seen saying that “José Menendez was obsessed with the band Menudo.” The docuseries then asserts that Rosselló’s claims might need modified issues in the course of the Menendez brothers’ trial for the murders of their mother and father in 1989.
The Menendez murders
On Aug. 20, 1989, José and Mary Louise (who glided by the identify Kitty) Menendez have been brutally murdered inside their Beverly Hills Mansion.
The scene was so grotesque that early hypothesis targeted on the potential for a mob hit. According to Biography.com, the mother and father had been rendered almost unidentifiable by 15 rounds from two 12-gauge shotguns.
But quickly the main focus shifted to the couple’s sons, who have been 18 and 21-years-old on the time. At first, they maintained to police they’d stopped by their mother and father’ home the evening of the killings to retrieve Erik’s ID whereas on the way in which to a film, and found their slain mother and father.
In this Oct. 20, 1995, file photograph, Lyle Menendez appears to be like up throughout testimony in his and brother Erik’s retrial for the shotgun slayings of their mother and father in Los Angeles, Calif.
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However, Erik finally confided to his therapist that he and his brother have been accountable for the killings and after the therapist shared the knowledge along with his spouse, the confession finally made its approach to police.
Lyle and Erik have been finally arrested for the murders and their trial kicked off an period of high-profile, televised prison trials that captured the general public’s creativeness by way of the ‘90s.
Despite defence arguments that José had sexually molested his two sons for years and that they killed their mother and father out of worry, they have been convicted of first-degree homicide and sentenced to life with out parole. They served the primary a part of their sentences in separate jail, till they have been reunited in 2018 and allowed to serve their sentences in the identical facility.
In current years, many have questioned whether or not there might need been a totally different end result for the Menendez brothers in the event that they stood trial right this moment, given society’s modified understanding of sexual abuse and household violence.
The brothers’ prior appeals for a brand new trial have been denied.
Menudo’s earlier allegations
Rosselló beforehand accused Menudo supervisor Edgardo Díaz of sexually abusing him when he was a youngster.
In a four-part miniseries for HBO Max, which aired in 2022, different members of the band additionally stated they have been bodily, verbally, sexually and psychologically abused as a part of Menudo.
No one has ever been criminally charged in reference to the allegations.
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