The household of Erik and Lyle Menendez is ripping Los Angeles County District Lawyer 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 stated the Menendez brothers did not deserve a brand new trial, although they declare they’ve new proof exhibiting they had been being molested by Jose earlier than they killed their dad and mom.

Hochman stated the sexual abuse claims are irrelevant to the homicide case … a place that doesn’t sit nicely with Erik and Lyle’s household.

Anamaria tells TMZ … “To recommend that the years of abuse could not have led to the tragedy in 1989 is just not solely outrageous, but additionally harmful. Abuse doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It leaves lasting scars, rewires the mind, and traps victims in cycles of concern and trauma. To say it performed no position in Erik and Lyle’s motion is to disregard a long time of psychological analysis and primary human understanding.”

She provides … “He is not only dismissing Erik and Lyle’s experiences, he’s silencing survivors all over the place who know what it is prefer to be disbelieved, ignored, and retraumatized by a system designed to guard them.”

Erik and Lyle declare they’ve new proof exhibiting they had 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 stated the abuse claims don’t change what occurred when Erik and Lyle had been convicted of murdering their dad and mom … however their cousin says Hochman is “attempting to bury the reality about their abuse.”