And, y’know, I know people who were fans who would get angry if they tried to read that. As in, they’re absolutely certain that the victims are lying, and we know this because Michael Jackson was rich; and further, we should feel bad at this point because he had a shitty childhood, and he’s dead.
I have to think that if we had the testimony of a woman, saying that she had been molested by Jackson, Falcor would be full and the thread would be closed.
Not that skepticism is a bad thing; the source is a tabloid, after all. However…c’mon, people, Jackson’s pervy pedo ways were the worst kept secret in human history.
If it’s real, it serves as vindication to his victims, because holy victim blaming Batman!
When she put all the pictures of the victims side by side, that’s when I knew it was real. There is a type and it would be impossible for all the people who were just after his money to have managed to put such a specific look together.
They did attempt to press charges with this. On page 11 of the document dump there’s a request by the Santa Barbara DA to admit the seized items into evidence in Michael Jackson’s trial there. The judge’s decision isn’t included, so I can’t say what it was or what reasoning he used.
The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s office didn’t say it was a hoax. They said some of the docs appeared to be copies of Sheriff Department reports and photos, and some seemed to come from elsewhere. They further said that they did not release any documents to the media, though they did produce reports and photos to the prosecution and defense during the trial.
I would add that the pre-trial pleading I mentioned above would be a public document that anyone can look at by swinging by the records window at the Santa Barbara courthouse. Pay some fees and you could even get your own copy.
A representative from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department gave Vanity Fair the following statement regarding the documents:
Some of the documents appear to be copies of reports that were authored by Sheriff’s Office personnel as well as evidentiary photographs taken by Sheriff’s Office personnel interspersed with content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through unknown sources. The Sheriff’s Office did not release any of the documents and/or photographs to the media. The Sheriff’s Office released all of its reports and the photographs as part of the required discovery process to the prosecution and the defense.
The word hoax is not used, but what exactly would you call adding material to official reports with the apparent intent to make the reader believe that the added material is part of the original?
Michael Jackson was a weird guy with weird proclivities, and by no means am I saying he’s utterly innocent. He may very well have done things with kids that are unsavory. We simply don’t know. He was such a sheltered, naive person that he’d describe what were by all accounts innocent sleep-over camps at Neverland by saying things like “I love to sleep with little boys”, and think nothing of it. So of course everyone’s alarm bells went off with him all the time.
But Sneddon was notorious for inventing charges and evidence, and hounded Michael Jackson for years. This report is old, old BS that was shitty police work then and now, and clickbait headlines that repeat the lie that he somehow “groomed kids” with “animal torture porn” aren’t helping. It’s rather ironic that Sneddon’s police work was so poor and biased that it likely kept us from knowing the true facts of MJ’s acts with kids and tainted his own case.
Ok, so the person writing this clearly knows nothing about the case, or doesn’t care.
The police report wasn’t just leaked or released, or obtained by RadarOnline - it’s been available for over a decade.
Judge Rodney Melville signed off on a statement during Jackson’s trial that clearly stated there was NO child pornography found during the raids on Neverland (or anywhere else).
One of the prosecutors released a statement yesterday saying that there were NO illegal items found during the raid.
The Sherriff’s department released a statement yesterday saying that the RadarOnline report included some elements from their reports, some fabricated and some just copied and pasted from the internet.
Further, reading the reports there were NO images of animal torture or children being abused.
The books owned were ALL LEGAL books available for sale at any book store. One is even held in the US Library of Congress! Two were gifts, and one hadn’t even been opened!
It has never been claimed that images of his Nephews - part of a photoshoot for one of their hit singles called “Why” - were used to “excite young boys”…
This is complete and utter nonsense. Disproven by statements from officials and it’s outrageous that somebody has copied and pasted it here (with their own little embellishments of course) in an attempt to further spread the misinformation started by one highly unreliable source.
Not even the first time something like this has come up.
Some people made hay a few years back about a sealed shipping container allegedly taken from his house after his death. Unknown provenance, I gathered, and of course some damning stuff in it as well.
Yes he was acquitted. You have to ask yourself this…
Who do you trust more? The jury that sat for 3 months listening to hours of testimony, cross examination, vieweing hundreds of documents and photos etc. or the word of RadarOnline?
Then do some research and realise that there were NO images of child abuse or torture discovered in the raids. There were no illegal materials found at Neverland at all. In fact, if you can’t be bothered to read through thousands of pages of court transcript, try this quick test. Look at the charges against Jackson. NONE relate to child abuse images, porn etc. Not one. That’s right, not even the prosecution claimed that Jackson had this stuff.
That report was media fiction. Did not happen.
Jackson had not lived at the address for years before his death. He never returned there after he was acquitted. The property was fully managed by an external company who joint owned the property with Jackson. Do you really think Jackson would leave incriminating stuff lying around with others having full access to it?
No. Lots of shipping containers were removed for cataloguing by his Estate after he died but nothing incriminating was found.
Gee BoingBoing and Xeni, I expect you to get things right. Disappointing.
Did you read those PDF’s before posting?
There’s nothing about torture. There’s nothing about animal cruelty. And there’s nothing that’s explicitly child porn.
What there is adult porn - homosexual, and straight, and possibly lesbian though I didn’t see that said explicitly anywhere, and group sex. There is Hustler ‘Barely Legal’ porn.
There are art and informational books with pictures of naked and partly clothed children and adolescents.
There is a sheet with a stain that could be blood. But no info about whose blood. It could just as well be a period stain as anything else.
There is nothing in this article to back up the headline claim of torture porn with animals and children. And the police reports do not say anything about torture or animals.
I think this is an unpleasant slip up in your journalistic standards.
I wouldn’t look twice at any of my friends who had some of these, but all of these together, and with so many of them having an emphasis on nude young men and boys seems to point to a particularly, shall we say, focused intent of a slightly prurient subject.
Ah, but this is a catalog only of things a particular person found interesting. One who was actively trying to hang that exact label on MJ. How many hundreds or thousands of books did this come out of? Were these his? We don’t know. I’m still miffed this BS pile of conjecture manure got posted to BoingBoing, a usually decently edited source.
