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[quote=Anonymous]Like others, I felt sick, just sick, watching this.  I cried more than once (and I am not a cry-er normally).

That others on this thread attest to Jackson's innocence based on his family's appeals and testimonies from others is ... disheartening and in some cases disingenuous.  MANY families will deny the possibility that their loved ones have engaged in criminality (especially sexual molestation); in this case, there is also considerable financial repercussion if the MJ industry suffers from the documentary and other allegations.   As to the 2005 jury finding MJ innocent:  Jackson himself attested to his 'love' for the community and I cannot help but think his presence was vital to the community's financial well-being due to tourism among other things.  Further, watching videotaped interviews with the jurors (contemporaneous) reveals that jurors are human ... for instance, one woman seeming to dismiss the claims of a child because his mother "snapped her fingers at [the jury]" with two others stating they believed something was wrong but the evidence wasn't compelling.  OF COURSE it wasn't:  exactly what kind of evidence would a smart man with dozens of attorneys and employees charged with protecting him have let 'live' in the wake of sleepovers and more such as described.

Further -- 
Several years ago, I was told by an authority on pedophilia that a 'telltale' sign of molesters who have access to children (in this case, a teacher in the DC area) is that they 'act" like and 'play' with children the age of those they're victimizing.  Such play is well-established in Jackson's case and is evident not only in 'Leaving Neverland' but in reams of video and photographic evidence throughout the years.

Robson is very careful to say this is not 'repressed memory syndrome' (2013 interview with Lauer).  He also notes, as does Safechuck, that they were both terrified to tell the truth because Jackson had threatened them and told them they would go to jail, etc., if they told of how they expressed their "love."  Similarly, others I know who were molested by beloved family friends.  In one case, a godfather told his young goddaughter (whom he raped for years) that if she told he would 'kill you and your pretty little sister, too.'  She kept quiet until a nervous breakdown/suicide attempt in her 20's.  In another case, the young woman was hospitalized shortly after confiding of the rape/molestation, which had been a complicating factor in her anorexia.  In both of these cases, the young women were all-star students at top SLAC's in the 1980's and 1990's:  NO ONE would have "guessed."  And I am quite sure they would have lied to no end had they been confronted before they were ready to tell their truth. Robson makes clear that he feared his career would be destroyed if he had told the truth in earlier years, and he also was clear that he was beholden to Jackson for some level of his fame at that time.

Both men explain that having their own young children (sons) also led to their disclosures.  My understanding from therapists who specialize in child abuse is that having a newborn/raising a child often reawakens feelings and concerns (and repressed memories in some cases):  this is consistent with their statements.

I know my thoughts won't sway those compelled to believe Jackson was innocent of these charges.  I can only hope, though, that they might help plant a seed just in case those individuals ever find themselves hearing from a loved one about abuse s/he has suffered, either a couple of days ago or a dozen years ago.  Nothing is more searing, and no one needs support more than victims such as these.

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