Menendez Household Rips L.A. County D.A., Says He is Silencing Abuse Survivors

The household of Erik and Lyle Menendez is ripping Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman … saying he is opening previous wounds and silencing survivors of sexual abuse together with his newest feedback on their case.

Anamaria Baralt, Erik and Lyle’s cousin and niece of Jose Menendez, tells TMZ … Hochman’s dismissal of two new items of proof associated to sexual abuse is “abhorrent.”

The D.A. held a information convention Friday the place he mentioned the Menendez brothers did not deserve a brand new trial, regardless that they declare they’ve new proof exhibiting they have been being molested by Jose earlier than they killed their dad and mom.

Anamaria tells TMZ … “To suggest that the years of abuse couldn’t have led to the tragedy in 1989 is not only outrageous, but also dangerous. Abuse does not exist in a vacuum. It leaves lasting scars, rewires the brain, and traps victims in cycles of fear and trauma. To say it played no role in Erik and Lyle’s action is to ignore decades of psychological research and basic human understanding.”

She provides … “He is not just dismissing Erik and Lyle’s experiences, he is silencing survivors everywhere who know what it’s like to be disbelieved, ignored, and retraumatized by a system designed to protect them.”

Erik and Lyle declare they’ve new proof exhibiting they have been abused — a letter Erik despatched to his cousin purportedly written in 1988 the place Erik discusses sexual abuse … plus a letter from a Menudo member claiming Jose molested him within the Nineteen Eighties.

Hochman mentioned the abuse claims don’t change what occurred when Erik and Lyle have been convicted of murdering their dad and mom … however their cousin says Hochman is “trying to bury the truth about their abuse.”