A journalist has told of how he was so “deeply suspicious” of Michael Jackson’s relationship with a young James Safechuck, he reached out to him during the star’s 1988 ‘Bad’ tour.
Sam Smyth was covering one of his concerts and became concerned by his behaviour towards James, asking the boy if he was being held against his will.
Jackson is facing new allegations of sexual abuse against children in the documentary Leaving Neverland which premiered in Australia last week.
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The gripping two-part film details Safechuck and Australian-born Wade Robson’s claims Jackson groomed them and molested them for years.
Smyth writes, in an article for the Irish Mail, he was staying in the same hotel as the singer before he performed in Ireland and he and another journalist noted how odd it was that the 10-year-old was with him.
They also noticed Safechuck remained in his room the whole time Jackson was off performing, with a ‘do not disturb’ sign hanging on the doorknob and sheeting on the windows to block the view.
So they sent a letter to the boy’s room using hotel stationary that read;
“Dear little Jimmy Safecheck, we are in the residents’ lounge…and if you are being held against your will or if you need rescuing contact us.”
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If this account is true. If this did in fact occur. Then the journalist is revealing that despite the claims, 'James Safechuck was not sharing a suite with Michael. He was sleeping in his mother's, which the journalist admits was next to Michael Jackson's own suite, contrary to the claim that the Safechucks were further, and further away from Michael Jackson's suite as the tour progressed.
Also the journalist is providing nothing more than innuendo, conjecture and the fact that he thinks it strange for Michael Jackson to have had a friend that was 10 years old at the time. He admits that when he became inebriated, he wrote a note and sent it to ‘James Safechuck's’ room, just to appeal to his own preconceived notions: that a friendship in contrast with his understanding of the norm somehow indicated the supposed existence of improper conduct.
Note: the sheets have also been reported as to being PVC bin liners to obscure view. Also that the windows that were obscured were actually to Michael Jackson’s suite not the Safechuck’s.
Why this is somehow evidence of Michael Jackson’s guilt, and in support of the abuse allegations is baffling?