In a separate 2005 case, also involving allegations of child molestation, Jackson was found not guilty. The case was settled out of court.īoth Robson and Safechuck later changed their stories and filed suits against the singer after his death, but the cases were dismissed in 2017 because the statute of limitations had passed. The family point out that Robson and Safechuck both testified on Jackson’s behalf when the family of Jordan Chandler launched a civil suit against him in 1993. “We’re living in a time when people can say anything and it’s taken as the truth.” His brother Jermaine insists the late music legend was “1,000%” innocent, telling Good Morning Britain: “He was tried with all of these things… they had to sling him through the mud and he was cleared of all of this, so it’s nonsense. The family of the singer, who died in 2009 of a drug overdose, say the claims amount to a “public lynching”. Safechuck alleges that Jackson claimed to have performed oral sex on him when he was sleeping, and that they later had sex all over the singer’s Neverland Ranch, in California.īoth men offer painstaking detail to back their claims. In one scene, Safechuck reveals how “he loved jewellery as a pre-teen so the pop star would take him shopping and lavish him with gifts as rewards for ‘sexual acts’”, reports the Daily Mirror. He also claimed the singer “would line a series of doors with bells so they would be alerted to any potential witnesses”, says the newspaper. James Safechuck, 40, says he was abused by the singer from the age of ten after starring in one of his Pepsi adverts. Robson claims the so-called King of Pop introduced him to porn and alcohol two years later. Robson met the superstar when he was five, after winning a dance contest on Jackson’s 1987 Bad tour. Wade Robson, now 36, claims he was abused by Jackson over a seven-year period, beginning when he was seven years old. Variety adds that “the sexual activities are described with unnerving candour, and one’s inevitable response is to recoil in horror at the predatory sickness they portray”, adding that the documentary “suggests that Jackson was a serial paedophile who came on as a protector of children”. At many points, the camera just quietly waits for the subject to formulate his thoughts and find a way to keep speaking. You know where it’s going from the start. “It is not salacious or leering or opportunistic. “A work of extraordinary restraint,” Vox says. The four-hour documentary has received rave reviews, but critics have warned that it is not for the faint of heart. It has prompted demonstrations outside the broadcaster’s base in Horseferry Road, London, from fans protesting his innocence, while radio stations have started pulling his music.
Leaving Neverland: what a child sex abuse expert thought.
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