Judge tosses lawsuit of man who alleged Jackson molestation

LOS ANGELES – A decide on Monday dismissed the lawsuit of a man who alleged that Michael Jackson sexually abused him as a boy.

Los Angeles County Top-quality Court docket Choose Mark A. Younger granted the Jackson estate’s ask for to dismiss the accommodate introduced in 2013 by Wade Robson. The choose claimed two Jackson amusement companies targeted by the lawsuit had no legal obligation to secure Robson from Jackson.

“There is no proof supporting plaintiff’s competition that defendants exercised control in excess of Jackson,” the judge wrote. “The proof more demonstrates that defendants experienced no lawful potential to command Jackson, mainly because Jackson experienced complete and complete possession of the corporate defendants.”

The dismissal arrived following the decide dismissed a very similar lawsuit in October by James Safechuck. The two adult males built their allegations in the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland.”

Vince Finaldi, legal professional for Robson and Safechuck, mentioned the ruling has “fatal flaws” and will be appealed.

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“If allowed to stand, the final decision would set a perilous precedent that would go away hundreds of little ones performing in the amusement marketplace susceptible to sexual abuse by persons in spots of electric power,” Finaldi stated in a statement.

Robson, now a 38-calendar year-old choreographer, satisfied Jackson when he was 5 several years outdated. He went on to seem in Jackson new music videos and file music on his label.

His lawsuit alleged that Jackson molested him around a 7-12 months period, and that as Jackson’s personnel, the two companies Jackson had started out had a responsibility to defend him the similar way the Boy Scouts or a faculty would want to secure kids from their leaders. But the decide found the businesses had been simply lawful entities that ended up managed by Jackson, not businesses that could handle him.

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