Thank you. As I listened to the transcript I wondered how many POC he shipped off to 30-40-year sentences because he was “just following the sentencing guidelines.” If that number is greater than zero, then His Honor can fuck right off this planet.

A defense servive for low-income people in New York responded to the sentence with “my client yesterday was offered 36-72 months in prison for stealing $100 worth of quarters”

I’m actually angry about this sentence. Blameless life? FUCKING HARDLY. His own daughter called his hands blood-soaked. I think we all know that the legal system tends to be kinder to white collar criminals but this is ridiculous even for his particular criminal profile.

I haven’t seen the second part, but in the first half they mentioned him specifically telling them not to trust women. So it doesn’t surprise me they’re angrier at their mothers than they are at him. Seems like it was all part of the grooming.

Me too. She infuriated me as well. She leaves her SEVEN year old kid with an acquaintence, at best, for a week or whatever. Did you watch Abducted in Plain Sight? Those two parents make Robson’s mom look like a helicopter mom. Very difficult to watch

This, all of this. What I took away was how good he was at abusing these boys (and who knows how many others), how organized, how experienced and skillful. Michael Jackson was Pedophilia LLC, he was the IBM of abuse. He was a child abusing machine, from the love-bomb beginning to the “don’t cross me” end. Back in the…

Watching the footage of him with young boys really did away with the “child like” excuse veneer. He acted like a couple with these boys. The photos they played while the two men recounted their “relationships”: running into a limo with paparazzi, holding hands on tour, posing for photos, shopping for jewelry... add in…

Oprah has had a hand in promoting some very questionable people on her shows, but when it came to emotional and sexual abuse and how insidious it is in American lives she has helped generations!

My mother walked in on me being sexually abused by a (male) babysitter and then later lectured me about how “that’s not what Jesus wants you to do.”

And it sounds like the Safechucks kind of stumbled into Jackson’s circle, where Joy Robson actively tried to get Wade in front of Michael while they were in LA. I understand she was probably trying to promote Wade’s dance career ... but he was seven, so wanting him to *have* a career is pretty messed up in itself.

Yeah of the two moms, Robson’s mom definitely angered me the most. Not to undercut the obvious warning signs that the Safechucks ignored, but some of the ones Joy Robson blew past were particularly shocking. Couple that with Joy pressuring Wade to testify AND the fact that she still seems to be hiding from the full…

Yesterday, Wendy Williams made her return to her talk show, and after hearing how dismissive she was of the victims, calling it all a “money grab” without even having seen the the documentary, I wish she’d just taken the rest of the season off. The comments are just as infuriating. MJ fans are somethin’ else. It’s not…

One of the most insidious things about sexual abuse is that the trauma inflicted on the victim causes behavior that people use to discredit them. For instance, the victim vehemently defending the abuser is actually one of the potential symptoms of abuse. It’s a result of the grooming and of the desperate need for the…

I’m sorry that happened to you. You did not deserve it. Sending you thoughts of healing and support.

Please be gentle with yourself. I’m so sorry that was done to you, and I know how hard it is to face it, even after a long time. You are in my heart and my thoughts. 

I didn’t know how profoundly After Neverland was going to impact me. Really wish I hadn’t watched it. There was childhood sexual abuse in my family that I thought had been neatly tucked away but this film ripped that fucking wound right open. I doubt I’ll get a good night sleep for a long while.

Oprah asked tough questions, and they gave satisfactory answers. I thought the documentary laid out the timeline very well and showed where the boys/men were at in their lives during the two trials and why they made the decisions they made.

I talked to my mom earlier about this, she will always be best remembered as Jessica Tate.

What do you make of the Jordan Chandler penis inconsistency? He said Jackson was circumcised and the autopsy report said he wasn’t.