Prosecutor examines new evidence of abuse in Menendez brothers’ case

The Los Angeles district attorney announced Thursday that his office will review new evidence of alleged molestation in the parent-murdering Menendez brothers’ case – potentially leading to a new conviction three decades after the gruesome killings.

District Attorney George Gascon announced that new evidence of sexual abuse against the brothers will be reviewed more than 30 years after the infamous trial that roiled America.

“We are not prepared to say at this point that we believe or disbelieve this information,” the prosecutor said. “But we are here to tell you that we have a moral and ethical obligation to consider what is presented to us and make a decision.”

In 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez shot their parents with two shotguns in their fancy Beverly Hills home while the couple was watching a movie in the living room.

The brothers shot their father, music manager Jose, five times in total and had to reload before they could finish off their mother, Kitty, as she crawled in agony on the floor.

Erik was just 18 at the time while Lyle was 20.

Last year, the brothers filed a petition after revelations emerged from the Peacock docuseries “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” about allegations that their father was a former underage member of the 1980s boy band Menudo sexually assaulted.

In these docuseries, Roy RoRossello claims he was about 13 years old when Jose Menendez, an executive at RCA Records, drugged and raped him.

“This new evidence is undeniable,” Nery Ynclan, one of the journalists behind “Menendez + Menudo,” told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.

“After 35 years, it is overdue to show these victims of incest the mercy they deserve.”

Lyle and Erik Menendez believe this new evidence lends credence to their claims that their father and mother sexually abused them since they were children.

Such testimony was prohibited during the brothers’ joint trial, but was included in the first separate trials, both of which ended in a jury verdict.

The brothers said in their petition that the killings were an act of self-defense and that they feared their parents would kill them if the couple told anyone about the abuse.

In recent months, the Menendez case has returned to the public consciousness, thanks in part to Netflix’s wildly popular Ryan Murphy miniseries “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which recounts the murders and trials without trying to rehabilitate their image.

Murphy told Variety that he has “no interest” in speaking to the two convicts.

“I don’t know what I would tell them,” the “American Horror Story” creator admitted, adding, “What would I ask them? I know their perspective.”

The Menendez brothers’ camp has sharply criticized the show.

“I believe that Ryan Murphy cannot be so naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives to do this without malicious intent,” Erik Menendez wrote on Facebook days after the publication.

Murphy told Variety that the show is “the best thing that has happened to the Menendez brothers in 30 years. Millions of people around the world are now talking about them.”

One of those people is reality star and prison reform advocate Kim Kardashian, who is calling for the Menendez brothers’ release in a personal essay published today.

“We are all products of our experiences,” wrote the 43-year-old. “I doubt anyone would claim to be the same person they were at 18. I know it’s not me!”

Kardashian claimed the brothers’ joint trial was unfair – and stressed that witnesses who were allowed in the first separate trials were barred from testifying in their joint trial.

She emphasizes that the Menendez brothers’ sexual abuse allegations would be handled differently in today’s climate – and would have turned out very differently if they had been of a different gender.

“Can anyone seriously deny that the justice system would have treated the Menendez sisters more leniently?” mused the SKIMS founder.

“I spent time with Lyle and Erik; They are not monsters. They are kind, intelligent, honest men.”

She also called the two confessed murderers “sensational eye candy.”

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians veteran also points out that 24 members of the Menendez brothers’ family — including their parents’ siblings — have called for their release from prison.