Given that this happened in California, I’m a bit surprised that this “minor attracted person” didn’t get probation.

Costa Mesa babysitter gets life in prison for molestations

by Paul Anderson | Friday, November 17, 2023 | 4:54 PM PST

Note how Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski is smiling in this picture of him on the beach. He might not be smiling much anymore.

A 34-year-old child care service provider from Costa Mesa was sentenced today to 707 years and eight months to life in prison for molesting 16 boys, aged 2 to 14, 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.

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 Dist. Atty. Juliet Oliver said.

We were told, especially after the John Jay Report showing that 81% of the sexual abuse victims of the all-male Catholic priesthood were male, that child abusers care much more about opportunity than the sex of their victims. Why, then, were all of Mr Zakrzewski’s victims, as was also the case with Jerry Sandusky, male? If the chances of selecting a male victim out of an even chance is 50%, then there is only a 0.001220703125% chance that all sixteen victims would be male.

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.”

Further down, after several paragraphs on what parents of victims said, we come to this:

(A mother) 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.”

Which tells us that Mr Zakrzewski will eventually be eligible for parole.

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.”

All accused are entitled to a defense, and I feel sorry for Jennifer Ryan of the Orange County Public Defender’s Office, who had to put up some sort of defense for her client, a task made enormously difficult because Mr Zakrzewski liked to videotape the abuse he wrought on his victims. Miss Ryan made some feeble attempts, but feeble was the best that could be done, because the evidence was so overwhelming.

We are not supposed to be happy that prison rape occurs, and it should never be part of a convict’s punishment, but it’s very difficult for me not to wish to see Mr Zakrzewski put in a maximum security prison’s ‘general population,’ with the other prisoners made aware of just who he is and what he did. I suspect that he will not have an easy life in prison, and I hope that he spends all 707 years and 8 months alive, behind bars, suffering whatever that life for him is like.