The program alleged that Jackson molested them and co-opted their families to allow his access to them.“We remain fully confident that Michael is innocent of these allegations, which are contrary to all credible evidence and independent corroboration, and which were only first made years after Michael’s death by men motivated solely by money,” Jonathan Steinsapir, a lawyer for Mr. Jackson’s estate, said in a statement after the decision.
Vince Finaldi, a lawyer for Safechuck and Robson, said in a statement that the court had overturned “incorrect rulings in these cases, which were against California law and would have set a dangerous precedent that endangered children.” The cases in question were fied in 2013 and 2014, then dismissed in 2017 because of California’s statute of limitations. But in 2020, a new state law provided plaintiffs in child sex abuse cases more time to file lawsuits.
The suits were again dismissed in 2020 and 2021 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. A judge ruled then that the companies were not obligated to protect the children.California’s Second District Court of Appeal ruled that “a corporation that facilitates the sexual abuse of children by one of its employees is not excused from an affirmative duty to protect those children merely because it is solely owned by the perpetrator of the abuse.
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