Earlier this week we brought you the news that a new Michael Jackson album is in the works, featuring never-before heard vocal tracks produced by a number of top-tier producers. Details on one track are proving to have a polarizing effect on fans, however, as the late legend is said to have been working on a song involving child molestation.
In the last decade of his life, Jackson was plagued by legal issues and accusations involving alleged child molestation. However, according to a first-listen report by The Guardian, in his upcoming posthumous album Xscape, a song reportedly discusses the extremely sensitive topic which might bear the final title “Do You Know Where Your Children Are?”
An older version of the track, which has found its way online, includes the lyric, “She wrote that she is tired of stepdaddy using her / Saying that he’ll buy her things, while sexually abusing her.” ‘
Prior to his passing in 2009, Jackson was cleared of charges that he sexually abused one young man in a 2005 trial. In 2013, Wade Robson, a choreographer filed a claim that he was molested by the singer as well, the latest in a long run of accusers. A hearing is set for June.
While never convicted of sex abuse, Jackson’s long history of odd behavior and his relative obsession with children has led to a great deal of unflattering speculation about the icon. Public impression was not helped by revelations of giving wine to minors under the guise of “Jesus Juice,” or by interviews in which Jackson admitted to sleeping with children in his bed while surrounded by extensive security systems, as in the video below:
