Re: Costa Mesa homosexual 'manny' sentenced to life in prison for molesting more than a dozen boys

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A so-called "manny" from Costa Mesa was sentenced on Friday to more than
700 years to life in prison for molesting more than a dozen young boys
and showing another victim child pornography.

Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was convicted Oct. 3 of 34 felony sex charges
related to 17 victims in crimes that prosecutors said took place from
2014 through 2019. According to court records, the victims were aged 2
to 14 and the former child care service provider has been sentenced to
707 years and eight months to life in prison for his crimes.

Jurors in the trial also heard evidence relating to two other boys,
including one who was allegedly molested, but the defendant was not
charged with attacking those alleged victims, Deputy District Attorney
Juliet Oliver said.

In court Friday, the defendant said he had "a big speech for this
moment" that was two pages long, but he said he preferred to "speak from
the heart."

"I meditated over your point of view, I paid close attention through the
trial, and I paid close attention to your statements today," Zakrzewski
said of the comments from the families of the victims. "It brings me a
lot of pain. ... I prided myself on bringing smiles to your children."

He said the moments he shared with his clients were sincere.

"I know we had some gloomy weather this week," he said. "The sun will
shine and it will break through the clouds. That's what I want for you.
I wish you the best. That's what you deserve and more."

Multiple parents told Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly
Menninger how the defendant's crimes affected them. One victim offered
the defendant forgiveness, while another implored him to seek redemption
in religion because "It's never too late to turn to God."

But others asked for the maximum punishment, calling the defendant a
"master manipulator." One grandmother of two victims said, "A death
sentence is too good for him... Please show no mercy on this animal.''

The parents of another victim called him a "serial predator," who has
left them "grappling with our guilt" for hiring him.

One mother said she took her son to doctors when he was 8 because he was
struggling with ulcers. One of the doctors asked if the child had any
cause for stress and she said at that time she couldn't think of
anything.

"I didn't know, but now I know," she said.

"I will be dealing with guilt for the rest of my life for letting this
animal in my life," she said. "I hired a babysitter once in my life.
Just once in my life."

Another mom, whose family moved to the United States, said they have had
to stay in the country much longer than they wanted to because of the
legal proceedings. She said she and her husband had no clue about what
was happening with their son when law enforcement paid them a visit
about the defendant.

"My husband and I were completely blindsided," she said. "I will never
forget that night when law enforcement came to my house. ... These
crimes and the aftermath have intertwined in every aspect of our lives."

She described having to take her 12-year-old son to be tested for
sexually transmitted diseases.

"I have grieved my son's childhood while he was still a child," she
said. "I can't look at his sweet baby photos anymore without crying. ...
All I can see is a child who was being abused and manipulated not to
speak up."

She asked the defendant, "Was it worth it? Did you get what you wanted?
Because I fail to see how you could think this would go any other way."

Another mother said her son was just about to turn 3 when she hired the
defendant.

"He came to our home once a month for a year," she said. "One of the
first things he taught him was to keep secrets."

She said he is so conniving that no parole board should ever give
credence to what he says about rehabilitation.

"He'll know what to say," she said. "No future committee can believe any
of that."

She said her son was so young at the time of his abuse that in
conversations with therapists, she has come to realize that there's no
way she'll ever know "who he could have become."

Her son did not have any problem sleeping alone before, but now has to
sleep with his parents, she said.

Menninger noted that the defendant suffered some "trauma" as a child
"due to neglect and exploitation," including "sexual exposure to a young
child." He was also punished by having his hand held over a stove, the
judge noted.

But, she added, that he sold himself as a perfect nanny and that he
picked out vulnerable families to exploit.

"They gave you the keys to their children and they trusted you," she
said. "Unfortunately you lied to all of them. You presented a fake
persona."

In her closing argument of the trial, Oliver said Zakrzewski had an
"entire book" on pedophilia on his computer.

"In it, there's a chapter titled Hunting Season," she said. "...When the
defendant reached out to (one of his victims) saying 'Let me be his
occasional babysitter,' he was hunting (the boy). He was hunting every
family in this case. ... He wasn't just reading the book, he could have
written the book."

Oliver said the defendant videotaped much of the evidence against him.

In one of the videos, a victim was seen lying on him nude as the
defendant "caressed" him to "normalize" the molestation, Oliver argued.

Zakrzewski is seen in another video touching himself with a boy in his
lap, the prosecutor argued. When he finished, the defendant allegedly
said.

"Thank you," Oliver said, adding, "There are no words."

With one of the boys he played a game the defendant called "rocket
ship," with the victim on his lap, and he declared, "It feels like we're
having sex,'' Oliver said.

Zakrzewski touted his work with children with behavioral disabilities
and advertised that he had years of experience, was CPR trained and had
background checks, Oliver said.

Many of the victims were 6 to 9 years old, the prosecutor said.

Jennifer Ryan of the Orange County Public Defender's Office argued that
while her client was charged with showing pornography to some of the
victims, photos depicting nudity and sex acts are not necessarily
"harmful" matter as charged.

"Each charge has separate laws, separate guides," she cautioned jurors.

She rebutted one charge of her client directing a dog to lick the
private parts of one of the victims, saying there was no evidence of
Zakrzewski directing the canine to perform such an act.

"Cameras are running all the time," she said. "But they want you to
believe something that was not depicted happened. ... That is not in
evidence."

Ryan also argued that some of the evidence in the trial showed "two kids
running around" in their underwear.

"That's not harmful material," she argued. "Sometimes kids run around
without their clothes. ... There's nothing wrong with a little boy
running around in shorts. ... That's not against the law."

Oliver countered that there was a staggering volume of videos, and
investigators never even went through all of them.

"There was no suggestion -- by me or anyone else -- that cameras were
running all the time," Oliver said. "Do not let the defendant's
arguments fool you. ... He deserves nothing short of 34 verdicts of
guilt."

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