Both men seem to have enjoyed the material delights offered by Jackson’s obsession with their sons, but they were often called away to the drudgery of their own Dickensian jobs: James’s father had inherited a family rubbish business Wade’s owned a couple of small fruit shops. They believe that even an inattentive father-even a bad one-will usually stir to action if he senses that his children are under threat from an adult male. Pedophiles tend to skulk away from fathers, and for good reason.
The fathers, as is so often the case in stories of child sexual abuse, are largely absent from their sons’ lives. But his speculation offered the only explanation outside the demonic for the most harrowing of the women’s remarks when Jackson asked Joy whether her son could live with him for a year, she offered a modified plan: She would not leave Wade with him, but would “share Wade” with him. In early March, the physician Drew Pinsky said on the Daily Pop talk show that he suspected both of these women had themselves been the victims of childhood sexual abuse, before quickly walking back the statement to a less slanderous avowal that he did not know either of them, and was merely guessing. Read: On not believing “Leaving Neverland” Here is Stephanie pressing her ear against a hotel bedroom, trying to hear what is happening inside here is Joy, realizing that a new boy appears every 12 months. Most damning is the women’s tacit and unexamined admission that the central proposition upon which their fantastical stories depend-that it never occurred to them that Jackson might pose a threat to their sons-is false. (“That was just something I really enjoyed,” Stephanie says in a matter-of-fact way, as though describing a nice feature of a resort.) They tell us that living in the orbit of Michael Jackson was a “dream,” a “fantasy,” even as one of them admits that she spent a lot of her time at Neverland alone, playing with the chimps, because Jackson and her son avoided her all day long.
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Their eyes glimmer with excitement as they talk about hotel suites, meeting movie stars, the lavish guest rooms at Neverland Ranch and its excellent wine cellar.
The two mothers, Stephanie Safechuck and Joy Robson, interviewed at length in the film, are a remarkable pair. The implication is clear: Michael Jackson could have any little boy in the world all he needed were parents who would serve up their sons to him. It is the house in Brisbane, Australia, where the other subject of the documentary, Wade Robson, grew up. It is the house where James Safechuck, one of the two men at the center of Leaving Neverland, an HBO documentary, grew up, but in a way it might as well be the Darlings’ house: “Peter Pan chose this particular house because there were people here who believed in him.”īut the Safechucks are not the only people who believe, because here is another suburban house, and here again is that seeking, searching intelligence, the camera pushing closer and closer. It hovers above it, and then swoops down, pushing in all the way to the doorstep, where it rests, impatient. The camera flies high above the palm trees of Hollywood, soaring north and west, all the way to the suburb of Simi Valley, where it slows down to seek out a certain street, and then slows some more until it finds a particular house. She is the author of Girl Land and To Hell With All That. About the author: Caitlin Flanagan is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
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