![]() ![]() Moms and dads who brought their kids to Neverland Ranch “should be investigated and possibly prosecuted themselves,” the columnist Rochelle Riley said on NPR in 2005. ![]() (The star was never convicted of child molestation, and the Jackson family maintains his innocence.) Ever since the first stories of abuse surfaced in 1993, one of the most common ways of responding to the notion that the man who made “Thriller” also routinely groomed young boys for sex, has been this: Blame the kids’ parents. Shown in the second part of Leaving Neverland-HBO’s calmly devastating documentary about Robson and James Safechuck, another alleged victim of Jackson’s-the TMZ clip not only highlights the ridicule that the accusers have faced, but also gets at a central issue regarding the Jackson accusations over the years. That’s what one TMZ staffer quipped about Wade Robson’s 2013 lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by the late King of Pop. “He should sue his mom for letting him go sleep with Michael Jackson when he was 7 years old.”
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