A California ”manny” was sentenced to 707 years in jail on Friday after he sexually assaulted 16 younger boys, starting from two to 12 years outdated.
Matthew Zakrzewski, 34, was discovered responsible of 34 felony counts together with lewd and lascivious acts with a minor beneath 14 after he molested the 16 kids and confirmed pornography to a seventeenth, the Orange County District Lawyer’s Workplace stated.
Zakrzewski dedicated the horrific acts between January 2014 and Could 2019. His crimes first grew to become recognized when a involved Laguna Seaside couple reported that the paedophile touched their eight-year-old inappropriately.
The couple had employed the predator via one in every of his a number of babysitting web sites. After an investigation was launched authorities uncovered circumstances involving boys throughout southern California.
He known as himself ”the unique Sitter Buddy” on one web site the place he provided mentoring providers and babysitting providers together with in a single day stays.
Zakrzewski said on the Sitter Buddy web site: ”Within the eighth grade I found what a pleasure it was to work with kids and be a constructive impression of their lives via my college’s Buddy Program.
”Now, I’m a full-service TrustLine Licensed supplier of normal and on-demand childcare, in addition to mentoring providers for youngsters.”
The predator was initially charged with three felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor beneath the age of 14 and one felony depend of oral copulation of a kid beneath the age of 10. He was additionally charged with one felony depend of possession of kid pornography.
As further victims have been recognized utilizing video and suggestions from the general public, Zakrzewski was in the end charged with 34 felony counts, together with 27 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor beneath the age of 14. He was convicted of all 34 felony counts.
In an announcement to the courtroom, Zakrzewski did not apologize. He stated: ”I prided myself on bringing smiles to your kids and all the great instances we shared have been one hundred pc real.
Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer stated of Zakrzewski: ”It is a case of shattered innocence and valuable childhoods that have been robbed from 17 little boys. These kids won’t ever know the individuals they have been really meant to be – as a result of their childhoods have been out of the blue and inexplicably interrupted not by a wolf on the door, however by a predator masquerading as a godsend.”
He added: ”The sexual exploitation of youngsters is supposed to destroy the smallest of souls and this monster disguised by smiles and giggles engaged in essentially the most horrific and calculated manipulation to make sure he would proceed to have unfettered entry to what these mother and father cherish essentially the most – their kids.”