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I feel upset, sick and cheated by Leaving Neverland

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Persimmonn · 13/03/2019 10:30

I was one of those people who kept saying the men are out to make money. That there’s no evidence etc. But I finally watched the documentary yesterday and it’s hurt me a lot. I feel like I was lied to my whole life. I know it sounds so melodramatic and selfish but MJ was my idol growing up. I remember being 7 years old and dancing and singing his songs.

Now I feel sick to the core. If Wade Robson and James Safechuck are lying, then they’re incredibly good liars.

MJ was a paedophile.

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BlueCookieMonster · 20/03/2019 16:20

Just catching up with it on 4OD, those poor boys. Just babies in every sense of the word, and taken so advantage of at such a young age.

I think in general abuse is an ongoing unravelling process. Even years after the fact, as you age and mature there will be new dimensions that you see the abuse through and cause you to perceive and relive it in a different way.

ccmrob12 · 30/03/2019 08:46

Have a read of this. Yet more facts to show what Wade is claiming, couldn't have happened. I know it is lad bible, but the quotes are from credible witnesses.

www.ladbible.com/entertainment/news-court-documents-show-wade-robsons-mj-sex-abuse-claims-could-be-false-20190329?c=1553893786988&fbclid=IwAR1O7rSBuKDHU0HkW1EsWzp5YKtqHbWNAWWJi4GWlfws8LEL4Jb_c5u_lb0

sagradafamiliar · 30/03/2019 10:25

Lol. Anyone who believes claims by a biographer, presented on a typo-laden gossip site, are facts (especially when we already know the families testified in favour of Jackson many years ago in the past), has my pity.

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jackparlabane · 30/03/2019 10:54

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/26/michael-jackson-abuse-abuser-sexual

I think back in the 80s and 90s people felt sorry for MJ because he'd had such an abusive childhood, and people in general didnt really believe in sexual abuse at all - even if a man groped a child and the child was believed, it was "if it makes them happy, it doesn't hurt you, be quiet" Until Axl Rose's Rolling Stone article, Corey Haim's death, and the story of Genie, sexual abuse just didn't occur to people as a possibility.

ccmrob12 · 31/03/2019 15:48

@calpop No dear I deal in facts. I've bothered to check them all out unlike some on this forum. I'm sick of being abused on here for having a view different to the majority who have been triggered by these lies.

Another article written, this time about 'Jimmy'.

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/james-safechucks-michael-jackson-abuse-14207115

When are people going to accept these are two people who are just after payday. However well they have acted in front of camera....

ccmrob12 · 31/03/2019 16:02

If you had 4 hours to spare to watch LN, do you have 27 mins to watch this?

If you want the truth, surely it's working looking further into this?

If you want to just believe what you are spoon-fed...then no evidence will turn you back on your view. You only believe what you want to believe, because you want to side with victims. It's a natural instinct, but in this case there is more than meets the eye.

CommunistLegoBloc · 31/03/2019 16:04

Ccmrob, you’re a disgrace. Just vile.

ccmrob12 · 31/03/2019 16:13

Go ahead, get another thread shut down with your abuse! What happened to people being able to debate without resorting to insults.

CommunistLegoBloc · 31/03/2019 16:37

No point wasting intelligent debate on a victim-blaming rape apologist who thinks LadBible can be used as credible evidence.

ccmrob12 · 31/03/2019 16:42

There you go again, you can't help yourself. I am not a rape or peado apologist. That's why I bothered to look into the facts. Have you looked into the facts? Their testimony, even to this day, cannot be true.

You can think about his music or his persona, that's nothing to do with the reason for asking these questions. A peado is a peado, no matter how famous or talented. The reality is, the facts don't stack up yet people believe them but either they haven't or won't because they don't want to know the truth.

sagradafamiliar · 31/03/2019 16:56

What FACTS have you looked at?

Decormad38 · 31/03/2019 16:58

He looked and acted like a complete freak for years. How can people be shocked really? Some people must have their heads up their bottoms!

CommunistLegoBloc · 31/03/2019 18:36

Your ‘facts’ indicate you don’t have an enormously good grasp of the meaning of the word, and that you’re unable to differentiate between malicious gossip and substantiated witness testimony.

ccmrob12 · 31/03/2019 18:48

Malicious gossip is only coming from one side. All the facts were laid out in court and the man was exonerated. Simple.

dragonflyinn10 · 31/03/2019 18:56

Well I've been up till very late last with my friend who absolutely denies anything went on , me on the other hand ,well I'm 50/50 these are the things he has told me ready...
Mj was told by his insurers to pay out the chandler case as he would lose out on 200 million in the world tour so the 20 odd million was small fry, mj at the time was going to be sued in a civil case and then it was going to criminal court after thus basically giving the prosecution all the case they needed. The us has since changed the law regarding this. So his advisers said just pay up I was shown a link on you tube with lawyers discussing this. Either wade or James stated a date where and when abused and the location was euro Disney but according to my friend the park was never opened at the time of the allegation along with a mock train station at Neverland which he said at the time given would of made James 17 years old also my friends partner said that the burning of the jacket and other memorabilia at the end of documentary was also a set up as wade had sold other things at auction . And finally, there is no tv network that will make the Jackson's families side of the documentary again I must state this is my friends view but in 50/50 has anyone else heard any of this ??

sagradafamiliar · 31/03/2019 19:15

Cc all the facts were not laid out in court and MJ was not exonerated, as there has been no court case brought by either James or Wade since MJ is dead.

CommunistLegoBloc · 31/03/2019 20:29

‘Simple’

Mmm yes this word does spring to mind but probably not the way you intended it.

CommunistLegoBloc · 31/03/2019 20:34

I mean it’s much simpler if all these unrelated boy described the same mechanisms of abuse, all these families that describe the same grooming process, the matching descriptions of MJ’s unusual markings on his penis, the bloodied child-size underpants recovered by the police, the many many books of pictures of young naked boys recovered by the police, the allegations from numerous staff members that they encountered MJ showering with and abusing boys, and much more, is all lies?

Rather than it being simpler that one once venerated man was a paedophile.

ccmrob12 · 01/04/2019 07:39

@Lego the descriptions of his penis didn't match. Chandler drew and uncircumcised penis and MJ was not circumcised.

As for the other stuff, none of it was true. They recovered pornography, but not naked boys. Where did you get that from? Bloodied pants?

If that was true he would have been found guilty, and we wouldn't be having this conversation but it's not.

Of course all the stories add up, they both saw the testimonies of the other two in the past and made them match up as they were in similar situations to them.

The thing that get's me about all this is the timing of it all. Wade only made the accusations after he felt slighted by the estate. He started to have big financial problems and then he makes his claim for millions.

James only realised he had been abused when Wade came out and made this claim. Really? You didn't realise before that, or just jumping on the bandwagon? His claims about being abused in the train station could not have happened, he claims the abuse stopped in 1992, but the stations wasn't built until 1994. These are the kind of holes that make me not believe them. Not because I have some fan love for MJ. I like his music, but I don't defend peados. Again if there was any proof, and not made up BS as above, then I would be with you.

Open your eyes and stop acting how the documentary and the media want you to act. You have been triggered and that 'documentary' was designed to do so. Hook, line and sinker.

calpop · 01/04/2019 08:22

www.reddit.com/r/LeavingNeverlandHBO/comments/b01mq3/megathread_the_case_against_michael_jackson/

Deluded. Stop telling people they havent done their research. Its all detailed here. Im not triggered, I'm lucky enough to have never been sexually abused.

sagradafamiliar · 01/04/2019 09:07

Cc you're an adult aren't you? Please don't make me explain how an uncircumcised dick could look like a circumcised one.

The way you speak about child abuse victims is repugnant.

sashh · 01/04/2019 09:23

Does the programme say how many of those boys' families received money from MJ? I know some did and I've never got my head around those parents effectively prostituting their sons for money.

Surely that depends.

If you find out your child has been abused and start legal action your lawyer is going to tell you what will happen.

You child will have to testify in court, in front of strangers about their first ever sexual encounter. They are then going to be cross examined by the best team of lawyers money can buy.

Your child will be called a liar, their identity will become known to the public no matter what the law is.

Then you are offered $20 million. That buys an awful lot of therapy. All you have to do is say nothing.

Would you still be going ahead?

CommunistLegoBloc · 01/04/2019 09:27

Naked boys and bloodied pants all in police reports. Actually linked in this thread. The books are deemed as ‘art’ and therefore not illegal. He had an awful lot of ‘art’.
Seems like you could do with doing a bit of fact checking and research yourself, m’dear.

ccmrob12 · 01/04/2019 10:14

The fact is, both men managed to convince a jury despite cross examination from some of the best in the business that they were telling the truth the first times around. They are both professional actors/performers that was their job. They have now convinced people that what they are now saying is the truth.

They have also got the holes in their story so wide you could drive a bus through it. Then you have the timings. That’s why I don’t believe these two.

Please don’t confuse my views on victims and these two men. You don’t know anything about my background and my views in general are probably the same as yours.

In this specific case however they differ. You can say or believe what you think but in these cases I don’t believe what they are saying. Sorry if that upsets you but it’s how it is. If you choose to believe then it’s up to you but I don’t know much evidence you need putting in front of you to see how much you’ve been triggered by such an emotive subject.

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