That's a very interesting article, and I also thought the point quoted by Misa about Weinstein's possible involvement intriguing.
You're not missing anything by not watching Leaving Neverland. I wasn't going to watched it but had seen the first 30 minutes, then the next 30 and had some time on my hands recently so watched to the end. It's essentially very one-sided, self-indulgent and far too long, clearly aimed at the prurient for whom explicit descriptions of child abuse are titillating. That's the only reason why I can see anyone would dress it up as "compelling".
The two men seemed quite unemotional about it all, Safechuck even having an odd giggle or too occasionally, and actually seemed more hurt about being replaced with a new "favourite" boy than about the alleged abuse. If you'd realised you'd been abused, would you really still feel offended that your abuser had turned his attentions elsewhere? The only emotion came from Robson, when he got tearful describing how he revealed the alleged abuse to his wife and other relatives, throwing a hand grenade into their lives, as described by his sister. His mother said she could not forgive herself for leaving her son with Michael Jackson and her other son said he didn't forgive her either. Her husband had committed suicide several years before.
We're supposed to believe that both men reacted in precisely the same way by reaching adulthood without realising they'd been abused and both only supposedly twigged that this had happened to them when their wives gave birth to baby boys and they imagined the same being done to them. I just don't believe that not one but two adults would react like that and don't fancy the chances of the kids with fathers with such putrid imaginations.
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## Latest from the The Neverland Watch folk..the so-called wedding ring one of his accusers fondles (how bizarre..supposedly keeping a ring bought for you by your abuser) is way too big for a small boy's hand and is adult size.
Safechuck had a small black box containing several gold rings and put one on the end of his finger. It did look too small to slide over the first knuckle, so it looked to me like a small ring. He said that he liked jewellery as a child, so perhaps Michael Jackson just gave him presents that he thought he'd like, no expense spared. As eccentric as Michael Jackson was, I'm not convinced by the film that he was anything more sinister than a doting uncle figure.