![]() Not to mention the timing Leaving Neverland just so happens to be coming out months after an explosive Lifetime documentary that may have played a part in R&B singer Not only was I questioning why our culture would want to bring down a man who isn't alive to protect himself, but I, too, was suspicious that these accusers were coming out now, after publicly defending Jackson when he was alive. I shared the same mindset of many of the folks Oprah was talking about. And a 14 week trial in 2005 found Jackson not guilty of charges that he had molested another 13-year-old boy, Gavin Arvizo.) (In 1993, after 13-year-old Jordan Chandler and his father accused Jackson of child sexual abuse, a police investigation was inconclusive, and Jackson settled with the family out of court. I had go-to lines about being able to separate the art from the man about how Jackson was certainly an oddball with an affinity for children because of his own troubled upbringing, but that didn't make him a criminal about how there was never any real proof that he had abused children. Still, even as a grown, college educated, opinionated adult, until just two days ago, I was one of those Michael Jackson defenders. ![]()
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