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Why is no one talking about Leaving Neverland 2 Or contradictions of the accusers?

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leavingnever2 · 21/03/2025 21:45

I noticed no one seems to care about Leaving Neverland 2 or be talking about it. Why aren't more people discussing the factual problems with "Leaving Neverland"?

I've noticed that many discussions about Michael Jackson focus on the allegations without examining the serious inconsistencies in the accusers' stories such as:

  1. James Safechuck claimed abuse at Neverland's train station between 1988-1992, but construction records prove it wasn't built until 1994-1995 - this is a major lie!
  1. Wade Robson claimed his first abuse happened in January 1990 when his family went to the Grand Canyon without him, but his mother Joy testified under oath that Wade went WITH the family on that trip
  1. Robson testified IN DETAIL as an adult under oath in 2005 that nothing inappropriate ever happened
  1. Wade Robson asked Michael Jackson for permission to get married at Neverland Ranch in 2005 - why would he want to celebrate his wedding at the place he later claimed he was abused?
  1. Stephanie Safechuck (James Safechuck's mother) stated in the documentary that when she heard about Michael Jackson's death in 2009, she "danced" and was "so happy he died" because she thought "Oh thank God, he can't hurt any more children." However, according to her son James, he never told anyone about his alleged abuse until after seeing Wade Robson's interview in 2013, and only then told his family about it.

This creates a major contradiction: Stephanie Safechuck couldn't have known about the alleged abuse in 2009 when Michael Jackson died if James didn't tell her until 2013 - four years later.

This is another significant timeline inconsistency that calls into question the narrative presented in the documentary. It's difficult to reconcile how Stephanie could have had this specific reaction to Jackson's death if she was unaware of any alleged abuse at that time. This type of contradiction represents more than just hazy memory - it's a fundamental issue with the timeline of disclosure that the documentary doesn't address or explain.

These aren't minor discrepancies but fundamental contradictions in their stories.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take abuse allegations seriously, but shouldn't we also consider verifiable facts that directly contradict these specific accusations?

People seem to take the documentary at face value, without question - it’s strange to not want to consider all the facts especially when some of them are major.

Honestly, I wouldn’t bet my life of MJ innocence but I also thinks it’s entirely plausible he’s innocent when I heard the above.

Why is there so little interest in most people to examine the full picture/the pure financial greed of these two accusers constantly attempting to get millions after their case is thrown out so many times in Leaving Neverland 2?

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ElizaDolittle4321 · 24/03/2025 00:51

leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 20:36

@Firealarm1414ive never heard this account do you have a source?

Here it is, it's only one minute and 37 seconds long.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 00:52

Apreslapluielesoleil · 22/03/2025 03:22

Because they were children when they were abused. Children cannot always pinpoint dates, time and age at the time accurately.
Because abuse confuses and harms children. They don’t know who is right and who is wrong. Abusers lie to them.
Because they were traumatised by the abuse.
Which is why abuse victims have to be questioned with care by professionals who are well trained. Not every victim gets this care and can be traumatised further.

It was well known at the time of his death that MJ was an abuser so Stephanie Safechuck wasn’t the only person to be happy when he died.

I fucking rejoiced when he died. I always believed his accusers and think it’s shocking he never paid for his crimes.

Firefly1987 · 24/03/2025 00:55

ElizaDolittle4321 · 24/03/2025 00:51

Here it is, it's only one minute and 37 seconds long.

Well that was a whole lot of nothing.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 00:55

curiositykilledthiscat · 22/03/2025 07:50

WR being a defence witness for MJ at 22 has always made me suspicious about his later claims.

As for the ‘why would they put themselves through that?’ question, when it comes to large, life changing sums of money, some people will do practically anything.

Then you don’t understand how grooming works

ElizaDolittle4321 · 24/03/2025 00:56

Firefly1987 · 23/03/2025 21:59

There are conflicting reports on this though. Some sources say he was not accurate at all and some say he was. I've seen reports Jordy said he was circumcised-he wasn't. Pretty fundamental thing to get wrong. There's so much disinformation it's hard to know what's true and what isn't.

When erect the penis can look circumcised, as the foreskin retracts along the length. Even the officials in the case said that.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 00:57

KimberleyClark · 22/03/2025 08:27

MJ had three children. What has childlessness got to do with it? P,entry offathers are abusers.

No he bought children from women, not the same as having them

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:05

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 09:16

The Jordan chandler case is so laughable - this is my point, it doesn’t feel like people seek to consider ALL the evidence. You only need to listen to Jordan’s dad on this phone call to know that was about money. He talks about wanting to ‘get what he wants and won’t stop until he does’ - really the father of a SA abused kid wants his pay check before justice?

The call is here;

T

You are disgusting calling a child victim of sexual abuse “laughable”

And I completely understand why the Chandlers took the money. Imagine your child having been sexually abused and the thought of them going on a stand and being grilled by clever defences lawyers. All for it to either end in a guilty verdict, where fans will abuse you for it, and Jackson will come out of prison (if he even goes) and resume his career. Or a not guilty verdict where you get no justice, where fans will abuse you for it and Jackson will resume his career. The Chandlers were in hiding by this point - that money will have bought them a new life and the best therapy going. I don’t blame them at all.

How does it feel to be a pedophile apologist? How does it feel to defend someone who rapes little boys? I sincerely hope you’re not a parent yourself. You can’t safeguard. And children deserve to be safeguarded

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:10

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 09:42

It’s just all so odd, especially to be suing the people from 40 years ago that you felt were there to protect you (MJJ productions) and then to continue to sue over and over again strikes me as overly money motivated. Funny they’re not suing their parents - the actual people (other than MJ if it is true) that are part to blame!

Wait - I thought Jackson was innocent?? Why would they sue their parents if nothing bad happened 🤔

Perfectly acceptable to sue 40 years later. They were let down by a whole network m of people working for Jackson and they deserve justice. There’s a huge price tag that comes with being abused. You wouldn’t begrudge someone suing for breaking their leg due to a business being negligent so how is this different?

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:13

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 10:08

@ObelixtheGauldifferently, there’s hundred of them for a start, but also none are repeatedly seeking financial compensation (going back to accusers a when michael was alive, the civil suits always came first), also there is no evidence to show the lies of his accusers,

saville also never went to court and got proven innocent - that case with Fabio Arvizo for MJ was CLEARLY a money grab proven innocent court but that doesn’t really get mentioned people conveniently forget about it!

so yeh, based on the above I have no reason to believe on savilles innocence…unless someone presents me with some evidence that makes sense

Jackson was not “proven innocent”. At all. Blimey you’re not the sharpest tool in the box are you.

What’s the magic number of abusers before you believe someone is a pedophile please?

Firefly1987 · 24/03/2025 01:15

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 00:45

I have so much to say on this.

But I’ll star with: I’m always so so surprised when people think that Jackson wasn’t a pedophile. I mean he’s the world most obvious pedophile!! What is wrong with people who can’t see it?!

If it was Barry from Asda who walked around holding the hands of little boys, had about a dozen accusers, built a theme park to attract children in his back garden, and had a merry go round of little boys “friends”, and paid off countless accusers, and had books full of pictures of naked boys, absolutely nobody would be saying he was innocent just because he was good at his job. But Jackson has scores of half wits defending his corner?!

Another thing about grooming: you’re groomed into covering things up and thinking what’s happening is an expression of love, not abuse. And children aren’t the best historians, you can’t expect a deeply traumatised person to get dates right from a highly abusive period decades ago (although the train station thing has been debunked)

If you think Jackson is innocent I seriously suggest you keep away from children, you’re not safe to be round them, and maybe get your head checked to ensure there isn’t a great big turd where your brain should be.

You know you can discuss a case online and be perfectly vigilant in real life don't you? None of us know the people involved, none of us were those boys' parents, you know the very people supposed to be looking our for their welfare? You can have questions about the case and still think what MJ did was insane, what the parents did was insane etc.

You know this is a site full of mothers and yet 80% probably think Lucy Letby is innocent, I could say the same thing about people defending her.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:21

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 11:46

Sorry but it’s ridiculous when people say and compare any celebrity to bob down the road.

celebrities since the start of Hollywood have never been conventional - so to expect them to be like bob down the road is ridiculous.

Thay doesn’t mean we should make exceptions for child abuser but it does mean the behaviour of celebs is just not the same.

Bon down the road often doesn’t fly private class get lots of surgery have private chefs and staff and all the other common traits associated with celebrity

Right so because Jackson is famous he gets to behave inappropriately and that’s ok because “celebrities”?

Bon down the road often doesn’t fly private class get lots of surgery have private chefs and staff and all the other common traits associated with celebrity

99% of celebrities who do this don’t have a harem of little boys who sit on their crotches at concerts and aren’t accused by dozens of boys of child sex abuse.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:24

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 11:56

@ElizaDolittle4321you don’t seem to read very well - my post states doesn’t mean we overlook abuse but we are suggesting celebs behave the same as normal folk and that is ridiculous - celebs have always and will always often be eccentric and weird and not like your neighbour is my point

But it’s just as inappropriate. Unless you’re a compete half wit who thinks it’s acceptable or different because someone is famous.

Also name me another celebrity - who HASN’T been accused of CSA - who makes countless little boys his friends, sleeps in a bed with them, walks around holding their hand then dunks them a few months later for another pretty little boy. I’ll wait.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:26

ObelixtheGaul · 22/03/2025 12:16

The thing to remember as well is that the whole 'childlike innocent' thing was a carefully crafted image, even down to the whispery, high pitched speaking voice, which he apparently dropped when engaging with adults in a business capacity, such as rehearsing and designing his shows.

He wasn't a child in a man's body. He was a man who adopted a child like persona deliberately for professional and personal reasons. He had hang-ups shared by a lot of former child stars having to repackage themselves as adult performers to an audience who expected to see 'little Michael'. He made the transition by creating an eccentric, childlike adult. It's well known that much of the 'whacko Jacko' stuff from the 80s and early 90s (sleeping in an oxygen tent, etc) was a stunt to keep the newspapers talking about him.

That image of him as the man who never grew up, who was an eccentric, germ-phobic recluse whose best friend was a chimp was a great cover for him to get away with having children in his home with a lot fewer questions than would have been aimed at others.

He groomed the world, just as Saville groomed a nation. By pretending to be other than he was. Saville's cover was his apparently selfless charity work. MJs was the assertion that he suffered some sort of arrested development, that he was still 'little Michael' inside, a little boy struggling to navigate an adult world he was forced into too young.

There's an element of truth to that, but I think it became a 'convenient truth' as he got older.

Spot on!! He was a wealthy and shrewd businessman, not a child in a man’s body.

Funny how other child stars don’t claim they’re “Peter Pan”.

Jackson was also a profiled liar. Remember when he outright denied having any plastic surgery! And people think this is an honest man. Pathetic. I’d like to know why it means so much to Jackson fans to see him as innocent?

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:30

curiositykilledthiscat · 22/03/2025 17:29

You'd think that she may have said in the documentary that she'd had a hunch Jackson had abused James? After all, she goes on to say she failed her son.

James did tell her round about the criminal trial - in his own way. He said “Michael was a bad man” (in relation to him choosing not to testify). She didn’t press him because he asked her not to, but it was enough.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:32

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 19:03

so youre telling me she let her child spend all that time with him and only after his death (after he went to trial and wasn’t found guilty) this was the part that made her feel her can’t hurt any more kids? She wouldn’t have danced at his death unless she knew about what ‘happened’ to her son, seriously - what you’re saying makes no sense! That she suddenly turned passionate about him being a paedo in this time? But still didn’t know James was molested at this point?

You didn’t watch the documentary properly, clearly. He did tell her in 2005, but he wasn’t explicit with details. Which is why she danced when he died. As did I. Good riddance.

He then went into further details when Wade Robson went public

PyongyangKipperbang · 24/03/2025 01:34

The problem is that MJ was an abuse victim himself. He had no idea what was normal, what was ok, what was acceptable.
ETA I think that he had arrested development and that emotionally he never moved on from being a teenager.

His father was a monster, he was in the public eye from the age of 5 and never had a childhood as we understand it. When he grew he was surrounded by sycophants who would agree to anything as long as he kept paying them. He had no moral compass whatsoever, all he had to learn from was his abusive father.

Do I think he was a paedophile? No because they have a sexual interest in pre pubescent children. Do I think it likely that he abused teenage boys? Yes.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:34

Firefly1987 · 22/03/2025 19:31

They specifically said built a theme park. That's obviously not a "trait" because most wouldn't be able to afford that. And there are plenty of things I think grown adults being interested in is weird, like Harry Potter or Marvel. Adults also enjoy theme parks. Society has never been more "childlike" than it is now and no one has a problem with it. He probably built one because he couldn't go to a regular one without being mobbed, ever think of that?

Besides, he hardly needed to build a theme park to entice kids, he was Michael bloody Jackson. That's literally what OP is trying to get across, that you can't compare him to Bob down the road because he doesn't need to use all these gimmicks to get kids interested. He was the biggest star in the world, who cares about a theme park at this point if you're a 10 year old kid getting to meet Michael Jackson? Ofc none of this means he was innocent, and I'm certainly not saying he was, but it's disingenuous to compare him to a regular man.

As a PP said, you can’t compare the lifestyles of the 2, but you absolutely can compare values. No matter how rich or famous you are, everyone should have the value to not sexually abuse children.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:35

Firefly1987 · 22/03/2025 19:58

@ThatNimblePeer It's hugely important info to know at what point she suspected something. We were always led to believe the boys and their parents supported him 100% and believed him innocent until Wade+James' allegations.

Watch the documentary. 2005. You’re welcome

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:36

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 20:39

I also find it astounding when people say how can the two accusers be so convincing…I genuinely don’t think Wade comes off as convincing at all!

I used to follow Wade in the 2000’s and watch his dance show every week - the way he acts in this documentary seems very fake to me. And then they throw in explicit parts to make us feel it could never be a lie - it makes it easily believable.

James admittedly does appear more convincing but I don’t understand why people say why would two grown men do this. People lie all the time! About all sorts of things - and convince people!!

Wade looks like a liar I don’t think his accounts feel believable at all

Aw is he not “victimy” enough for your liking?

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:37

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 21:02

Sorry but James Safechuck's allegations against Michael Jackson present significant timeline inconsistencies that undermine his credibility.

In 1993, Safechuck testified under oath that Jackson never sexually abused him, a position he maintained for over two decades. His allegations only emerged in 2014, a year after Wade Robson filed his lawsuit and five years after Jackson's death.

The most problematic aspect of Safechuck's claims involves his supposed late "realisation" of abuse. In legal filings, he stated he did not recognise his experiences as abuse until beginning therapy in 2013 at age 35. However, this claim directly contradicts other statements in those same court documents.

While claiming no understanding of abuse until 2013, he simultaneously described experiencing panic during Jackson's 2005 trial, fearing his "relationship" with Jackson would be exposed. This clearly implies awareness of impropriety years before his claimed 2013 realisation. Make this make sense?!!!!

It’s called grooming.

Youre welcome.

The MJ sycophants feeding you info aren’t doing a very good job

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:39

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 21:20

@Butchyrestingfaceyes the same ones she knew about when she let her son share the bed!!

on except the other case in 2005 which proves easily the accuser was lying!!! So which case is it that made her dance?!! Since she know about the most believable ones at the time of dancing he was dead?!

Her son’s HTH

so there’s no proof at all poor Gavin was lying.

ElizaDolittle4321 · 24/03/2025 01:39

PyongyangKipperbang · 24/03/2025 01:34

The problem is that MJ was an abuse victim himself. He had no idea what was normal, what was ok, what was acceptable.
ETA I think that he had arrested development and that emotionally he never moved on from being a teenager.

His father was a monster, he was in the public eye from the age of 5 and never had a childhood as we understand it. When he grew he was surrounded by sycophants who would agree to anything as long as he kept paying them. He had no moral compass whatsoever, all he had to learn from was his abusive father.

Do I think he was a paedophile? No because they have a sexual interest in pre pubescent children. Do I think it likely that he abused teenage boys? Yes.

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@PyongyangKipperbang When he masturbated both of these boys they were pre-pubescent. James himself said nothing came out of him, he never ejaculated then, he hadn't even started going through puberty. Wade wasn't even 10 years old, I think he was 7 or 8 when Jackson taught him to masturbate per the documentaries. All of his accusers were pre-pubescent.

That is a PAEDOPHILE.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:41

leavingnever2 · 22/03/2025 22:05

@PaintYourAssLikeRembrandtany other Crime, inconsistencies are most certainly indicators of liars - of course it depends what the discrepancy is but some of the ones in this case are wild!!

Your pal Jackson is the biggest liar of all.

I’d bet you believe his claims of abuse by his dad without stamping your foot for evidence, right?

PyongyangKipperbang · 24/03/2025 01:44

ElizaDolittle4321 · 24/03/2025 01:39

@PyongyangKipperbang When he masturbated both of these boys they were pre-pubescent. James himself said nothing came out of him, he never ejaculated then, he hadn't even started going through puberty. Wade wasn't even 10 years old, I think he was 7 or 8 when Jackson taught him to masturbate per the documentaries. All of his accusers were pre-pubescent.

That is a PAEDOPHILE.

Edited

Then I concede the point. But do you concede that MJ had absolutely no knowledge of "normal" or "OK" as we understand it?

I dont actually like MJ and will turn off his music if it comes on the radio because I do believe him to be a rapist, but I do strongly feel that he followed urges and feelings because no one taught him differently.

JandamiHash · 24/03/2025 01:46

leavingnever2 · 23/03/2025 04:40

the GAVIN ARVIZO case was debunked so much so Jackson was found not guilty,

his mom was a proven extortionist and the whole family uncovered as lying grifters. Please do your research on it

It wasn’t debunked at all. Gukty leople are found “not girly” all the time. Doesn’t make them automatically innocent.

Even if his mum was an extortionist (she wasn’t) how does this mean he didn’t sexually abuse her son?

JFC the stupidity is terrifying
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