Menendez brothers family call for killer siblings to be resentenced after 30 years behind bars for parents gruesome murder

The family of Lyle and Erik Menendez called for the killer brothers to be resentenced after serving more than 30 years behind bars for the vicious 1989 shotgun murder of their parents Wednesday.More than 20 family members descended upon the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, insisting that the Menendez brothers were victims of “unspeakable cruelty” at the hands of their father, music executive Jose, and that their suffering was disregarded during their 1993 trial because society had not yet acknowledged that men could be the victims of sexual abuse.“If they were the Menendez sisters, they would not be in custody.We have evolved, and it’s time for them to be released,” said Anna Maria Baralt, Jose Menendez’s niece.Their aunt, Joan Vandermolen, said she had “no idea of the extent of the abuse they suffered at the hands of my brother-in-law.“None of us did.

But looking back I can see the fear their father instilled in them,” added Vandermolen, whose sister was their mother, Kitty.“The truth is, Lyle and Erik were failed by the very people who should have protected them.By their parents, by the system, by society at large.

When they stood trial, the world was not ready to believe boys could be raped or that young men could be victims of sexual violence.Today we know better.”This is a developing story.

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