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Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Christi Carras

Former Menudo band member alleges he was raped by Menendez brothers' slain father

A former member of the boy band Menudo alleges in a new documentary series that the slain father of the Menendez brothers raped him when he was a child.

Roy Rosselló's allegation comes 27 years after siblings Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of first-degree murder in the 1989 slayings of their parents, Jose Enrique Menendez and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, and sentenced to life in prison.

The brothers alleged during their trial that they had been sexually, physically and emotionally abused since they were young children and said they acted out of fear and hatred when they shot their parents to death in their Beverly Hills mansion. Defense attorneys said the siblings feared their parents would kill them after they threatened to expose the alleged abuse.

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