This is probably completely off topic, but I felt sharing it now. When I was a kid I was molested on my way back home from school. I was like 8 and that dude over 40 at least. There was this short part of road which was always totally lonely and he was there every day with his bicycle.
Kids are NOT stupid. They know when something is off, just like I knew with this guy for days or maybe weeks. He keeps driving my walking speed, talking to me. Me, I'm answering polite but still trying to cut the conversation. He still got me. The very same day it happened I went to the police with my mother. And they didn't do crap. Why? Because I was "only" touched and not raped, so why bother. And why didn't I get raped? Because I was able to escape due to pure luck.
Now years later I found out my dad used to wait in that very spot with a friend, waiting for that guy. I never talked to my Dad about MJ because I thought he'd have biased feelings and all. He was literally spending an entire year of his lunch breaks with a friend on that spot trying to catch the guy bc the police wouldn't bother. I only learned about that a few years ago and I'm 30 now.
Now a few months ago for whatever reason we actually talked about the cases against MJ, and I was actually surprised by what my father said, given how forcefully he acted back in the day. He was literally "I don't read all that tabloid shit, but the one thing that always stuck with me was that they are asking for money. And that told me more about the accusers than it ever did about Michael."
Now I know the money thing is not something that we should take as arguments against haters, because there are horrible parents out there. But I personally was struck by my own father, who was literally willing to kill someone bc the law wouldn't act, and be on Michael's side without looking into the case any further.
And he didn't even know about Robsons allegations at that time we talked about it. I told him and laid out all the obvious lies in the case and his eyebrows just went higher and higher. This coming from a man who was literally ready to kill a molester.
Sorry, I know this is off topic, but for some reason I just felt the need to share.