Re: Michael Jackson sexual abuse lawsuits revived by appeals court

[MJ is a fag]

pothead <pothe...@gmail.com> wrote in
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> Michael Jackson got off rolling in shit and sucking little boy dicks.

A California appeals court on Friday revived lawsuits from two men who
allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were
boys.

A three-judge panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal found
that the lawsuits of Wade Robson and James Safechuck should not have
been dismissed by a lower court and that the men can validly claim that
the two Jackson-owned corporations that were named as defendants in the
cases had a responsibility to protect them. A new California law that
temporarily broadened the scope of sexual abuse cases enabled the
appeals court to restore them.

It's the second time the lawsuits — brought by Robson in 2013 and
Safechuck the following year — have been brought back after dismissal.
The two men became more widely known for telling their stories in the
2019 HBO documentary "Leaving Neverland."

A judge who dismissed the suits in 2021 found that the corporations, MJJ
Productions Inc. and MJJ Ventures Inc., could not be expected to
function like the Boy Scouts or a church where a child in their care
could expect their protection. Jackson, who died in 2009, was the sole
owner and only shareholder in the companies.

The higher court judges disagreed, writing that "a corporation that
facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not
excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely
because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of the abuse."

They added that "it would be perverse to find no duty based on the
corporate defendant having only one shareholder. And so we reverse the
judgments entered for the corporations."

Jonathan Steinsapir, attorney for the Jackson estate, said they were
"disappointed."

"Two distinguished trial judges repeatedly dismissed these cases on
numerous occasions over the last decade because the law required it,"
Steinsapir said in an email to the Associated Press. "We remain fully
confident that Michael is innocent of these allegations, which are
contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration, and
which were only first made years after Michael’s death by men motivated
solely by money."

Vince Finaldi, an attorney for Robson and Safechuck, said in an email
that they were "pleased but not surprised" that the court overturned the
previous judge’s "incorrect rulings in these cases, which were against
California law and would have set a dangerous precedent that endangered
children throughout state and country. We eagerly look forward to a
trial on the merits."

Steinsapir had argued for the defense in July that it does not make
sense that employees would be legally required to stop the behavior of
their boss.

"It would require low-level employees to confront their supervisor and
call them pedophiles," Steinsapir said.

Holly Boyer, another attorney for Robson and Safechuck, countered that
the boys "were left alone in this lion’s den by the defendant’s
employees. An affirmative duty to protect and to warn is correct."

Steinsapir said evidence that has been gathered in the cases, which have
not reached trial, showed that the parents had no expectation of
Jackson’s employees to act as monitors.

"They were not looking to Michael Jackson’s companies for protection
from Michael Jackson," the lawyer argued said.

But in a concurring opinion issued with Friday's decision, one of the
panelists, Associate Justice John Shepard Wiley Jr., wrote that "to
treat Jackson’s wholly-owned instruments as different from Jackson
himself is to be mesmerized by abstractions. This is not an alter ego
case. This is a same ego case."

The judges did not rule on the truth of the allegations themselves. That
will be the subject of a forthcoming jury trial in Los Angeles.

"We trust that the truth will ultimately prevail with Michael’s
vindication yet again," Steinsapir said Friday.

Robson, now a 40-year-old choreographer, met Jackson when he was 5 years
old. He went on to appear in three Jackson music videos.

His lawsuit alleged that Jackson molested him over a seven-year period.

Safechuck, now 45, said in his suit that he was 9 when he met Jackson
while filming a Pepsi commercial. He said Jackson called him often and
lavished him with gifts before moving on to sexually abusing him.

The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they were
victims of sexual abuse. But Robson and Safechuck have come forward and
approved of the use of their identities.

The men’s lawsuits had already bounced back from a 2017 dismissal, when
Young threw them out for being beyond the statute of limitations.
Jackson’s personal estate — the assets he left after his death — was
thrown out as a defendant in 2015.

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