A Child Psychologist shares why he believes Michael Jackson was NOT a pedophile:
Source: The Daily Beast blogs - Author: Stephen
A more honest reappraisal would be that the crime of false accusation
was committed against Michael Jackson. The man was virtually
hounded to his death. And from what I can see from the largely
rebutting responses on this post, it seems clear the true 'fanatics'
as regards Michael Jackson - are his detractors.
As a child pyschologist with over 20 years experience working
in more crisis /abuse scenarios than I care to recall, I can
assure you that simply participating in what amounted to 'sleepovers'
is no evidence of pedophiliac behaviour. Contrary to what most
people assume about pedophiles, the overriding personality trait
they demonstrate is not their interest in children - but their
spectacular disinterest.
They are unable to perceive a child as being anything more than
something to be used and dispensed with. This disinterest cannot
be masked, it is part of the intrinsic make-up of child predators.
There are no 'ifs' and 'buts' with this. Mr Jackson, far from
using children, clearly felt great affection and concern for
them. He may have over-identified with them, but he did not
present as a molester to any social worker or child specialist
I have come across.
There isn't a pedophile in the world with a track record of
public works that Jackson had. He also clearly lavished healthy
love and affection on his own children. The lack of corroborating
evidence in 1993 and again in 2005, the lack of incriminating
evidence over a 10 year period from the FBI investigation casts
serious - if not fatal doubts, on the authenticity of both the
accusations and the accusers themselves. ...
It was a clear case of - "well he's odd so he must be guilty."
Diane Dimond, who I only know of from her inflammatory and clearly
self-interested profile as a Jackson 'expert' has been successfully
discredited over the years, and one can assume blogging nonsense
such as this is the type of 'bread and butter' work her career
has been reduced to - as a result of her persistent and regrettable
misleading of the American public.
This woman represents the results of the insidious 'dumbing
down' of American life that led millions of people to allow
their views and erroneous belief in a innocent man's guilt to
be masticated and served up for them.
4:35 pm, Feb 26, 2010
