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German XJW said
MJ is a naive weirdo - but I do not think he is a monster and many people who know him in person have testified this.
and I agree. Ultimately none of us will even know the truth of what happened however we are all entitled to our opinions.
Thanx.
German XJW saidMJ is a naive weirdo - but I do not think he is a monster and many people who know him in person have testified this.and I agree. Ultimately none of us will even know the truth of what happened however we are all entitled to our opinions.
Thanx.
Here is what is called "grooming behavior"
Excerpt from http://echo.forensicpanel.com/1999/6/1/sexgrooming.html
In the context of the sexual molestation of children, the term grooming may seem incongruous. Yet the closest familiar analog to grooming is the common ritual of courting.
How do child molesters groom potential victims? Like the man engaged in courting, the child molester behaves in ways to promote trust; and since the victim is often a part of a family, he will also try to gain the trust of the child's parents or care-providers. Child molesters often select their potential victims carefully, typically targeting the child who is seeking adult attention. Most often there is some period before the molester engages in any inappropriate behavior. During this time, the molester presents himself positively to the child, exhibits interest, is complimentary, and behaves in exemplary ways to reassure anyone who may be suspicious of his motives.
Once trust is accomplished, the child molester will begin to test and erode typical boundaries to sexual behavior. He might suggest that the child and he sleep in the same bed, be nude together, or he may touch the child near the genital area to test the child's reaction. He may suggest that the child engage in non-sexual inappropriate behaviors such as drinking alcohol, in order to make the child fearful that he or she will be in trouble if their activities together are discovered.
If the child does not appear overly upset or report these boundary violations to others, then the molester might escalate the intrusiveness of his sexual behaviors. Ultimately, the goal of grooming is to obtain compliance so the child will be available for sexual abuse.
For example, the child molester frequently will tell the child that touching between them is good, that it is an indication of their special relationship, and that if the child reports the behavior they will no longer be able to be friends. Some molesters threaten, and tell the child that by not complying with the touching the child, or some person important to the child, will be harmed.
If a man is interested in having sex with a woman, he knows success is unlikely if he simply approaches her and suggests sex. Instead, he will present his positive attributes and himself as someone interested in her. Often he will seek to gain the trust and approval of her friends and family. Frequently the courtship process is reciprocal, each actively courting the other.
Similarly, grooming behaviors employed by sex offenders are intended to increase the likelihood of success in engaging a child in sexual behavior. Of course, preventing the child from telling someone is one goal not generally related to adult courtship.
The fundamental distinction, however, between child molestation and courtship is that children cannot consent to sexual activity with adults. The legal bar to a child's consent is recognition of the lack of information and power a child has in a sexual relationship with an adult. Therefore, there can be no reciprocity.
In courting behavior, the intended target of the sexual behavior has equality of knowledge and power with the person who is seeking to have sex. Grooming a child, on the other hand, is manipulation of an uninformed relatively powerless victim. Children are especially at risk due to their lack of understanding about the motives behind the acts of adults directed toward sex. Children's lack of understanding renders them extremely vulnerable to adult advances.
Sound familiar?
“He always comes here but he does not associate with us. He sits in the back room where we usually seat people if the main room is too full."Ah, don't you just love theorcratic warfare? Engage translation from Dub-speak to English;
“He dis-associated himself a decade or more ago, and because of that we do not associate with him. He sits in the back room where we usually seat people who are being shunned by the caring, sharing Congregation of Jehobler's Critian Widlesess"
lol!...oh so true, and all I could think about when I was reading that article. Whether MJ is innocent or not, I feel for him in his time of vulnerability. I know what it's like in those really dark moments to think for a fleeting moment, maybe they were right? It's a horribly traumatic process for any human being to go through, and especially his poor lil kids. I only hope for them that they will return to the most normal life as possible. frog
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Jackson's Future Is an Option Play
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... practice his Jehovah's Witness faith more publicly, as a gesture of sincerity. Answer your doorbell -- it might be Jackson with a copy of "The Watchtower.". ...
