Do you think Michael Jackson was guilty?

[InnocentOrGuilty]

Of the sexual abuse of boys.
I'm interested in a poll.
G = you think he was definitely guilty
I = you think he was innocent
(Stemming from a debate with DH last night!)

I think he was guilty.

He was so publicly adored that I think people find it difficult to reconcile that behind closed doors he did horrible things.

People seem to view Michael as innocent because he was abused as a child and spoke in a high pitched gentle voice, but this was an affectation much like Marilyn Monroe and Paris Hilton.

There are plenty of videos of Michael talking in his real, much deeper voice.

Yes. Much as it saddens me. Hiding in plain sight. It was so obvious but he groomed us (his fans) into believing he was special and childlike and it was ok for him to have little boys in his bed.

So obviously guilty I don't really understand how people defend him. The things they found at his ranch are disturbing

Yes.

G.
But his fans ate batshit and will insist he's innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

are batshit.
Didn't eat it.

G. Obviously

G

No doubt in my mind he was guilty. Leaving Neverland sealed the deal. Can’t even look at a picture of him now, repulsive man.

Yes guilty
And find it quite upsetting that he's still adored by fans
If it was up to me we'd never hear another MJ song again

I don’t see how anyone could think otherwise than guilty after watching that documentary 😢

I think it is more likely than not he was guilty. People say but he was lovely he was innocent he was childlike. Yes. And these wonderful ‘sweet’ people can do more than they should with children, whether or not you or ‘they’ think it’s right. I’ve known of two boys with learning disabilities who did this and it’s so sad.

Yes, he's was a very talented, very manipulative person who built up a public image of himself as an eccentric Peter Pan, all so he could access children.

However unlike someone like Jimmy Savile, his music still makes millions for Sony , so a lot of money is invested in keep up a level of reasonable doubt

I’d like to hear what makes people think he’s innocent.

Guilty

Why not actually make a poll?

I'm on the app so can't vote but was only talking to DH about this yesterday that the BBC have no qualms about playing MJ songs on the radio, which to my mind is almost akin to running repeats of Jim'll Fix It.

I 100% think Michael Jackson was guilty but he somehow seems entirely uncancellable.

Yes definitely guilty.

But for all sorts of reasons people including myself would prefer not to believe it. Probably because he was so talented and adored and also money.

I think he's guilty.
What I don't understand is why the parents were allowed to be brought off.
Yes he was child like on the screen but he was still seemed capable of bringing up 3 children, run a house among things

Most probably G.
Had a horrendous childhood with highly controlling and exploitative parents (father).
It doesn't excuse it, of course but he was clearly a very damaged individual.

Guilty

G
I love his music but I can see beyond that and think definitely guilty.

Guilty. If the bloke down the road built a playground in his garden and invited little kids over to play in it then sleep in his bed we would be all over calling him a pervert, prob more so if she spoke in a silly high voice. But MJ was famous and people think he is exempt somehow.

I am sure that a non celeb would have been convicted on that evidence.

He wasn't called Wacko Jacko for nothing.
Plus - too much money, too little responsibility or accountability.