Leaving Neverland, accuser James Safechuck and Wade Robson detailed their separate experiences, claiming that they were both molested by Michael Jackson when they were children. The documentary aired in 2019.
Both men have tried to have some of the shocking details in the documentary heard in a court of law but have been hit with roadblocks. On Monday, a judge dismissed Robson’s 2013 molestation lawsuit six months after Safechuck’s case was thrown out.
According to the Associated Press, after Safechuck filed his lawsuit against the entertainer, a judge dismissed the case in October 2020 due to him listing two of Jackson’s corporations as defendants in the suit. The court found that he didn’t have grounds to sue his production companies. Safechuck’s case was also thrown out in 2017.
A Los Angeles judge dismissed a sexual abuse case against pop star Michael Jackson due to a lack of evidence.
“There is no evidence supporting plaintiff’s contention that defendants exercised control over Jackson.”https://t.co/A3HBGaPghG
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 28, 2021
Similarly, a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge decided to dismiss Robson’s case on Monday because “two Jackson entertainment corporations targeted by the lawsuit had no legal duty to protect Robson from Jackson,” according to NBC Bay Area.
“The evidence further demonstrates that defendants had no legal ability to control Jackson because Jackson had complete and total ownership of the corporate defendants,” the judge wrote about the molestation lawsuit.
Robson and Safechuck detailed their claims of molestation on Leaving Neverland, the two-part HBO documentary named after Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. Located 135 miles north of Los Angeles, the large estate was where Robson allegedly had “slumber parties” with the “Thriller” singer. In the documentary, both men alleged that Jackson had molested them as young boys.
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Before Jackson’s 2009 death, the Grammy-winning singer beat an unrelated child molestation lawsuit. In 2005, he was prosecuted on four felony counts of child molesting after facing accusations that he had molested a teenage cancer patient that he had grown close to two years prior, according to the New York Times. He was acquitted on all charges.
Robson’s attorney revealed that he would attempt to appeal the decision.
