“I believe Jackson’s accusers and their families, whose testimonies were given in the trials/suits against him.“
Parents who allowed their small children to actually live with Jackson for extended periods of time while the parents weren’t there. Another factor on the side of reasonable doubt for me….
“Parents who allowed their small children to actually live with Jackson for extended periods of time while the parents weren’t there. Another factor on the side of reasonable doubt for me…”
Yes, the parents did not handle the situation right to start with, but their error makes no excuse for Jackson.
Those parents were merely very enamored, stupidly, with Jackson’s great celebrity and ignorant of who Jackson was, morally. They were also families with little means and thought too little, questioned too little, about why this celebrity was showering their child with so many gifts, and why such an older person wanted their child to stay, alone, over nite with Jackson. And kids don’t talk right away because they see themselves as “guilty” which is what shame does to an innocent child.