Ahead of the release of HBO’s “Leaving Neverland,” the two accusers whose stories are featured in the shocking documentary detailing pop icon Michael Jackson’s years of alleged child sexual abuse say that they don’t expect other accusers to speak out. But I also don’t expect them to just come out now that we’re coming out,” accuser James Safechuck told “CBS This Morning” in an interview that aired Thursday. “It’s such a difficult thing to do, to come out. At the time, both Safechuck and accuser Wade Robson defended Jackson against the other allegations, insisting that Jackson had not abused them. But as the documentary depicts, it took both men years to realize that Jackson’s behavior was abuse, because of how young they were at the time, and how Jackson groomed them and instilled their trust in him.

Source: Huffington Post February 28, 2019 14:48 UTC