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@PanamaG and @Ahtman, I'm along these lines of thought myself.

I think MJ was foolish and acted very inappropriately towards younger people but I DO NOT believe he acted indecent towards them. He was never allowed to have a childhood and he was trying to get that in his life during adulthood

He was naive and didn't understand that the outside world would not see things the way he saw them and he payed a heavy price for it.

Once one person made an accusation the money grabbing mindset of our claimculture hopped on the bandwagon trying to milk yet another rich person of their money.

I'm not a fan of MJ or the majority of his music he made, but i do see that the guy was extremely talented and did not deserve most of what was thrown his way in life.

IMHO

The people around him as well as his family are to blame for this as well. They should of stopped him plain and simple. One or more of them should of made him get help and told him to stop, for his own good. Sexual behaviour will always raise it's head when kids are involved, you can't avoid it. Just think about how many kids end up going too far (intentionally or innocently) whilst playing Doctors & Nurses. You add an (alleged) child like adult into the mix and it's going to go south very quickly, especially as some of his behaviour (jesus juice and grabbing crotch) falls into adult behaviour. It's a bad mix.

...was that "jesus juice and crotch grabbing" directed at the kids?

I don't think so, IIRC, and from his point of view he wasn't doing anything wrong. But he should of realised how some of his actions would be taken by the puplic eye. It seems that in regard to this MJ was either extremely naive of the habits of the media, or arrogant enough to think they wouldn't take advantage of him. (regardless of whether there WAS a scandal)