1/4/2024 0 Comments Cherie currie and joan jett![]() (And in Jett's case, conspired to cover it up in case Jackie told her parents and legal action was initiated.) The problem is, their denials do not ring true given the number of corroborating witnesses and the fact that Jackie's replacement - who has no incentive to lie 40 years later - recalls the rape being "joked about" all the time by her bandmates. Still, both Currie and Jett - the two most famous bystanders - clearly do not want people to know that they sat by idly while a fellow teenage girl was assaulted, so feel the need to respond. (The bystander effect.) She's (now) the first to say that the other people were also violated and traumatized - that seems to be her motivation in coming forward. And Jackie is a smart woman, who has waited to come forward until she had fully come to terms with what happened to her, and why others did not intervene. The only person who really has a finger pointed at him is Kim Fowley. Obviously Jackie’s story is extremely upsetting and although we haven’t spoken in decades, I wish her peace and healing.īut let's step back here. For a group of young teenagers thrust into 70s rock stardom there were relationships that were bizarre, but I was not aware of this incident. ![]() It is the only thing I can do and I'm glad to do it.Īnyone who truly knows me understands that if I was aware of a friend or bandmate being violated, I would not stand by while it happened. I will not allow anyone to throw me under the bus and accuse me of such a foul act. ![]() I will make public the questions, answers and results of that test. When I return from Sweden I will seek a qualified polygraph examiner to put to rest any and all allegations. There are so many excuses I could make being only one month into my sixteenth year at the time that people would understand but I am innocent. I have never been one to deny my mistakes in life and I wouldn't start now. Of looking into the dead yet pleading eyes of a girl, unable to move while she was brutally raped and doing nothing.
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