The grimmest of tales: Testimony that Michael Jackson was an abuser GlobeArts
. In a hotel room in Paris, Safechuck says, “Michael introduced me to masturbation. That’s how it started. That tour was the start of a sexual, couple relationship.”
There follows yet more sobering accounts of the two boys separately spending time at Neverland, Jackson’s lavish theme-park home. The fondling, the sex, the tactics used to make sure Jackson and a boy weren’t disturbed or caught. It’s all very matter-of-fact and chilling. How did the parents of these boys allow things to happen? Well, they also speak extensively.
And here’s the thing – both Safechuk and Robson, at one time, denied that Jackson had abused them. One did it twice in court.They explain how this happened, as they see it. Jackson would tell them, repeatedly, that they had to keep the secret. That was vital to their friendship and well-being. He convinced them that both the victim and abuser would go to jail for life if the truth was known. So they lied. Later, they would lie to their parents, friends and their partners.
There is a lot to absorb in this, the grimmest of grim tales: The power-dynamic, the sense that Jackson was, at one time, the most powerful celebrity in the world; the grooming of the boys and manipulation of their families. And the intensity of the original denials by the victims, with their compulsion to lie and lie again.
Jackson is, in truth, largely absent from the four-hour program. He’s there in photos and concert footage and in the context of now, and what the two victims say, it is unnerving to recall the hysteria that surrounded him. If you believe these men, and that is up to you, the hysteria was a fundamentally corrupt transaction.
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