A survivor of sexual abuse by members of the legal establishment in Scotland claims she has been excluded from the child abuse inquiry.
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Two lawsuits filed against companies formally owned by Michael Jackson, which allege that the late pop star sexually abused two children in the 1990s, may be revived. A Californian appeals court issued a tentative decision to that effect earlier this week.James Safechuck and Wade Robson both accuse Jackson of abusing them as children.
Following the musician’s death in 2009, they both sued his estate and companies linked to the star in relation to those abuse allegations. They were also the subject of the ‘Leaving Neverland’ documentary in 2019.Legal reps for the Jackson estate reject the two men’s allegations of abuse.
However, so far the legal battle between Safechuck and Robson, and the companies MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, has mainly centred on legal technicalities.The lawsuits were initially dismissed because of the statute of limitations under Californian law. At the time, victims of child abuse needed to file any lawsuits in relation to that abuse by the age of 26.
Both claimants had passed that age by the time they went legal.However, a change was then made to Californian law in 2019, so that victims can now make a legal claim against alleged child abusers up to the age of 40. And the following year Safechuck and Robson’s lawsuits were revived.This led us to technicality number two.
Whether or not any abuse took place, are MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures in any way liable for that alleged abuse? The estate has argued that the companies cannot be held liable in this way.Later in 2020, the Californian judge overseeing the cases basically agreed, dismissing both lawsuits once again. He concurred that it could not be proven that the two companies or their employees had any legal duty to control or stop Jackson.
.A survivor of sexual abuse by members of the legal establishment in Scotland claims she has been excluded from the child abuse inquiry.
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