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Kim Kardashian and the Menendez brothers are celebrating the identical constructive information proper now.
Though the killing of their mother and father made Erik and Lyle Menendez notorious, their story differs dramatically from that of different well-known homicide trials.
Millions of individuals have been calling for authorities to reassess their unjust jail sentences. Finally, issues appear like they’re altering.
Kim Kardashian is an outspoken proponent of prison justice reform. Like hundreds of thousands of others, she’s celebrating. This is a step ahead for justice.
What’s modified for the Menendez Brothers?
Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez have spent the previous three many years in jail. That sentence stays considered one of our society’s most notorious injustices.
It isn’t that folks don’t imagine that they killed their mother and father, José and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. Instead, hundreds of thousands of individuals imagine that they need to not have had such prolonged sentences.
Or shouldn’t have gone to jail in any respect. Eyewitnesses describing José’s emotionally and bodily abusive method along with his sons.
There can also be proof supporting Erik and Lyle’s allegations that he sexually abused them for years. They aren’t even José Menendez’s solely accusers.
Society each failed to guard the brothers from their father after which condemned them to life in jail for releasing themselves in the one means that they noticed how. But now, after many years, the present Los Angeles District Attorney could change that.
Though it’s unhappy for our authorized system that it’s required, additional proof corroborating Erik and Lyle Menendez’s sexual abuse accusations in opposition to their father has come to gentle.
In a word to his now late cousin Andy Cano, Erik confided: “I’ve been making an attempt to keep away from dad. It’s nonetheless taking place Andy however it’s worse for me now.” Additionally, one other accuser, Roy Rosselló, has come ahead to accuse José of sexually abusing him as a younger teen.
With that in thoughts, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has requested a resentencing for Erik and Lyle Menendez. Nothing may give them again their childhoods or their grownup lives, each stolen from them. But justice too late is preferable to by no means righting wrongs in any respect.
This is what Kim Kardashian has to say concerning the lengthy overdue Menendez information
Taking to her Instagram Story with a textual content put up, Kim Kardashian addressed the Menendez resentencing request and praised George Gascón for “righting a major flawed.” Or, a minimum of, for taking step one.
“Your dedication to equity and reality is commendable,” she praised.
Kim addressed Lyle and Erik Menendez’s buddies, family, and supporters who’ve been advocating for his or her freedom. “Your voices had been heard,” she affirmed.
Though Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was justifiably controversial as a result of some questionable inventive selections, Kim Kardashian praised Ryan Murphy’s Netflix undertaking for having “helped expose the abuse and injustices” within the notorious authorized case.
Kim Kardashian then very precisely famous that “society’s understanding of kid abuse has developed, and social media empowers us to query the methods in place.”
And although different unjust jail sentences happen, just like the years that Gypsy Rose Blanchard spent behind bars, she did get to go free and begin dwelling her life. Eventually. Erik and Lyle Menendez haven’t had that likelihood.
Erik and Lyle aren’t the one victims who noticed just one technique of escape and ended up behind bars
“This case highlights the significance of difficult selections and looking for reality,” Kim emphasised. “Even when guilt shouldn’t be in query.” That is a crucial level to emphasise.
“I imagine within the justice system’s potential to evolve,” Kim added. “And I’m grateful for a society the place we are able to problem selections and search justice.”
Kim Kardashian concluded her Menendez Instagram Story by urging: “Never cease questioning.”
