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MJ Trial - a different issue

Darat

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MJ Trial - a different issue

I hadn't been following the MJ trial until I entered into a discussion here that involved it, since then I've been paying a bit more attention to it.

One of the things that I have heard and just been reading about is this testimony of ex employees and associates who have said under oath that they witnessed him sexually assault children.

The latest one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4422235.stm

A former security guard at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch has testified that he saw the singer sexually abusing a boy in the early 1990s.

...snip...

What I really don’t understand is why these people did not do anything about it at the time. If I saw an employer assault anyone never mind a boy I would then and there step in to try and stop it, and ensure that the authorities got involved.

It is beyond my comprehension that they did nothing. I can understand MJ being surrounded by "yes people" but surely if you witness an assault like these people describe you would, without even thinking of consequences, do something?

If they are telling the truth how could they stand by and do nothing? It just seems so strange and alien to me that they allowed these assaults to happen and by inaction allowed them to continue happening.

When it comes to a matter of minors in our society I think it is right to consider someone who doesn’t do whatever they can to stop the assaults as having some culpability for any future assaults since they didn’t do everything within their powers at the time to stop them.
 
"The latest in a parade of former Michael Jackson employees to take the stand against their ex-boss testified Friday that he once saw Jackson with his hand inside child star Macaulay Culkin's shorts but didn't tell anyone because "nobody would have ever believed this."..."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...0050408/ap_en_ce/michael_jackson&sid=84439559


At the time some of these incidents were occuring, it would have been the accusation of some 'disgruntled former employee' against the world's most beloved entertainer.
 
crimresearch said:
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At the time some of these incidents were occuring, it would have been the accusation of some 'disgruntled former employee' against the world's most beloved entertainer.

That's why I tried to be careful in how I worded my statement above ( "who doesn’t do whatever they can to stop the"), of course they might not be believed, the police might ignore them and so on but at least they would have tried.

What seems to have happened (if they are telling the truth) is that they witnessed a sexual assault on a child and did not intervene. That is what I cannot understand. I'm sure that if you saw someone doing what that guy alleges he saw Jackson doing you would have stepped in then and there to stop it.
 
I've been the 'disgruntled former employee'/whistleblower.

But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone.
 
I hear Neverland employees had/have to sign a harsh confidentiality agreement. And, that they have been threatened by MJ's goons if they squealed.

Combined with the fear, there's the herd mentality. If nobody around you does anything, you don't want to be the nail that sticks out. So you say nothing. And then maybe you rationalize your lack of action. Sadly, I totally believe it. Gurus and cult leaders have gotten away with worse.
 
The security guard in question lost an unfair dismissal case against Jackson. He has a clear grudge.
 

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