Prosecutors say that Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski persuaded more than a dozen families across Southern California to hire him to take care of their children
A Costa Mesa nanny used his job to gain trust with parents to get access to their young boys in order to film himself sexually abusing them under the guise of playing with them, Orange County prosecutors said on the first day of the man’s trial Thursday, Sept. 7.
“ systematically babysat each of these 17 children, and played with them in a manner that made them love him, made them think they were best friends,” she said. “To them, he was great. They got to go on adventures with him.” Both Oliver and Zakrzewski’s public defender, Jennifer Ryan, warned the jury about the photos and footage they would see during the trial.Judge Kimberly Menninger banned television cameras from recording audio of the proceedings in order to protect the names of the victims shared during Thursday’s opening arguments.
In the 2018 case, the boy from L.A. refused to talk to an interviewer after initially telling his mother about Zakrzewski’s behavior. When the Laguna Beach detective reached out to a Los Angeles Police Department detective who had investigated, both asked to talk to the boy again. In his second interview, the boy accused Zakrzewski of molesting him, Oliver said.
On the cell phone, computer and digital camera, Oliver said, police found “thousands of photos, and thousands of videos” Zakrzewski allegedly took of his victims.
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