Kim Kardashian is advocating for Erik and Lyle Menendez‘s life sentences for killing their mother and father to be reconsidered.
After spending time with the brothers, the fact TV persona and legal justice advocate penned an essay for NBC Information the place she made the case for them.
“We’re all merchandise of our experiences. They form who we had been, who we’re, and who we shall be. Physiologically and psychologically, time modifications us, and I doubt anybody would declare to be the identical particular person they had been at 18. I do know I’m not!” Kardashian writes in a private essay.
She continued, “You suppose the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez. I actually thought I did: In 1989, the brothers, aged 21 and 18, respectively, viciously shot and killed their mother and father of their Beverly Hills residence. In 1996, after two trials, they had been sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole. As is usually the case, this story is way more advanced than it seems on the floor. Each brothers stated they’d been sexually, bodily and emotionally abused for years by their mother and father.”
The essay comes after L.A. District Lawyer George Gascón stated his workplace was “reviewing” the case and set a listening to for November 29 that would result in a resentencing or retrial.
“The primary trial was televised for all to see, and Erik and Lyle’s case grew to become leisure for the nation, their struggling and tales of abuse ridiculed in skits on Saturday Evening Stay,” Kardashian wrote. “The media turned the brothers into monsters and sensationalized eye sweet — two smug, wealthy children from Beverly Hills who killed their mother and father out of greed. There was no room for empathy, not to mention sympathy.”
The American Horror Story: Delicate actress famous that the Menendez brothers “had no probability of a good trial towards this backdrop” and stated “there have been restricted assets for victims of sexual abuse” on the time.
“There have been nearly no techniques in place to assist survivors, and public consciousness of the trauma of male sexual abuse was minimal, usually clouded by preconceived judgments and homophobia,” she added.
Kardashian added, “I’ve hung out with Lyle and Erik; they don’t seem to be monsters. They’re type, clever, and trustworthy males. In jail, they each have exemplary disciplinary data.”
“The killings will not be excusable. I wish to make that clear. Neither is their habits earlier than, throughout or after the crime. However we must always not deny who they’re immediately of their 50s. The trial and punishment these brothers obtained had been extra befitting a serial killer than two people who endured years of sexual abuse by the very folks they cherished and trusted.”
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Kardashian ended her essay by writing, “With their case again within the highlight — and contemplating the revelation of a 1988 letter from Erik to his cousin describing the abuse — my hope is that Erik and Lyle Menendez’s life sentences are reconsidered. We owe it to these little boys who misplaced their childhoods, who by no means had an opportunity to be heard, helped or saved.”
The renewed curiosity for the Menendez brothers comes amid the Netflix sequence Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, created by Ryan Murphy, with whom Kardashian has a working relationship.
