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Male ‘manny’ working for families across Southern California, convicted on 34 counts of sexually abusing 16 boys in his care, aged 2-12, over 5 years – Matthew Zakrzewski faces almost 7 centuries in prison

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d1d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Male nanny who worked for families across Southern California is convicted of sexually abusing 16 boys in his care aged 2-12&comma; now faces <strong>nearly 700 year<&sol;strong>s behind bars <&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d1d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was arrested in May 2019&comma; after a couple in Laguna Beach reported that he touched their son inappropriately<&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d1d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The self-styled &&num;8216&semi;manny&&num;8217&semi; in southern California<&sol;strong>&comma; <strong><strong><strong>was charged with 34 felonies&comma; including lewd and lascivious acts with a minor&comma; beginning in 2014 until his arrest in 2019 <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d1d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Prosecutors said he had actually videotaped much of the evidence against himself<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d1d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was arrested in May 2019 after a couple told Laguna Beach police he touched their son inappropriately<&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d1d&semi;font-size&colon;14px"> <strong>He faces 690 years in prison following his conviction on Oct&period; 3&comma; with s<strong>entencing scheduled for Nov&period; 17<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;10&sol;Matthew-Antonio-Zakrzewski-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-451849" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;617px" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"617"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>California male nanny Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was arrested and detained by police after getting off an international flight on May 17&comma; 2019&period; accused of molesting two young boys in his care and possessing child pornography<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A male nanny who worked for families across Southern California was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting 16 young boys in his care and showing another boy child pornography&comma; prosecutors said&period;<br>Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was arrested in May 2019&comma; after a couple reported to the Laguna Beach police department that the child minder touched their son inappropriately&period;<br>More alleged victims were identified&comma; and Zakrzewski was ultimately charged with 34 felonies&comma; including lewd and lascivious acts with a minor&period; The child crime spree that began in 2014 until his arrest&period;<br>The charges against Zakrzewski included&colon; 27 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor under the age of 14&comma; one felony count of oral copulation of a child under the age of 10&comma; one felony count of possession of child pornography&comma; one count of using a minor for sex acts&comma; two felony counts of distributing pornography to a minor for the purpose of engaging in sexual conduct and one felony count of an attempted lewd or lascivious act with a minor under the age of 14&period; <br>He faces up to 690 years in prison following his conviction on October 3&period; Sentencing was scheduled for Nov&period; 17&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;10&sol;Matthew-Antonio-Zakrzewski-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-451850" style&equals;"width&colon;827px&semi;height&colon;817px" width&equals;"827" height&equals;"817"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Zakrzewski &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; <strong>faces 690 years in prison following his conviction on Tuesday Oct 3&comma; by a jury in Laguna Beach&comma; Calif&period; He was charged with 34 felonies&comma; including lewd and lascivious acts with a minor&comma; beginning in 2014 until his arrest in 2019 <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The jury was sent to deliberate on Tuesday morning and reached their verdict before lunch&period; As a result of his conviction&comma; he could now face 690 years in prison&period;<br> Accused of molesting victims ranging from 2 to 12 years old&comma; an Orange County jury jury convicted Zakrzewski on all 34 counts on Tuesday October 3&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;These young boys were forced to endure unimaginable terror as a result of the ultimate betrayal by a babysitter&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement&period;<br>Deputy District Attorney Juliet Oliver said that Zakrewski had actually videotaped much of the evidence against himself&period;<br>Zakrzewski&comma; of Costa Mesa&comma; had billed himself on his website as a &&num;8216&semi;manny&comma;&&num;8217&semi; who not only watched over children but provided a fun &&num;8216&semi;buddy&&num;8217&semi; experience&period;<br>The couple who initially raised an issue about Zakrzewski hired him through one of his many babysitting websites&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;10&sol;Matthew-Antonio-Zakrzewski-7&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-451934" style&equals;"width&colon;836px&semi;height&colon;1043px" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"1043"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski advertised his nanny business on a website where he called himself &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Matthew the Manny”&comma; describing himself as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;professional manny” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sitter&sol;buddy” &&num;8211&semi; Prosecutors said he had actually videotaped much of the evidence against himself<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;10&sol;Matthew-Antonio-Zakrzewski-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-451923" style&equals;"width&colon;833px&semi;height&colon;451px" width&equals;"833" height&equals;"451"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>On his since taken down website the now convicted pedophile describes himself as a &&num;8216&semi;manny&&num;8217&semi; with over six years of experience working with kids &&num;8211&semi; including overnight and travel care<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Investigators with the Laguna Beach police Department&&num;8217&semi;s Major Crimes &amp&semi; Intelligence Unit soon learned of a seven-year-old alleged victim from Los Angeles&period; They quickly learned of 10 more alleged victims throughout Southern California&period;<br>Zakrzewski was one of the creators of &&num;8216&semi;My Sitter&sol;Buddy&&num;8217&semi; a website dedicated to &&num;8216&semi;connecting Orange County based children with quality&comma; pre-screened sitters &&num;8211&semi; any day &amp&semi; any time of the week&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>He called himself &&num;8216&semi;Matthew The Manny&&num;8217&semi; on social media&period; His profile he discovered &&num;8216&semi;at a very early age&&num;8217&semi; the &&num;8216&semi;joy it was to work with children and be a positive impact in their lives&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;It was actually sickening to me and the rest of the detectives we put all of our focus into this investigation&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Laguna Beach Police Sgt&period; Jim Cota said&comma; back in 2019&period;<br>On his website&comma; which has since been taken down&comma; he says he has more than six years of experience in childcare&comma; looking after kids between three months and 14 years old&period;<br>He also offered overnight and travel care&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;10&sol;Matthew-Antonio-Zakrzewski-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-451924" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;554px" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"554"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><strong>Zakrzewski <&sol;strong>also created the babysitting service website Sitter Buddy and babysat children from families in the LA and Laguna Beach region&period; The Jury on Tuesday convicted him of sexually assaulting 16 young boys in his care and showing another boy child pornography<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8216&semi;At a very early age&comma; &lbrack;8th grade&rsqb;&comma; I discovered what a joy it was to work with children and be a positive impact in their lives through the &&num;8220&semi;Buddy Program&&num;8221&semi; at my middle school&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Now&comma; I’m a career manny and my 6&plus; years childcare experience spans from ages 3 months to 14&comma; including special needs… I think the reason I connect easily with kids is because I am not just there to supervise&comma; I participate&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he wrote on his website&period;<br>On the site he&&num;8217&semi;s pictured shirtless with young boys in a pool and smiling in a photo shoot&period;<br>He also created the babysitting service website Sitter Buddy&period;<br>Zakrzewski was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from California State University-Long Beach in 2012 with a degree in communication studies&comma; according to his LinkedIn&comma; but worked as a babysitter for families across the Laguna Beach region&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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