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Janice Smalls Combs, the mom of Sean “Diddy” Combs, has launched a press release in protection of her son as he faces gross expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and sexual abuse.
The rapper and businessman was taken into custody at a Manhattan resort on Monday, September 16 after having been indicted by a grand jury.
“I come to you in the present day as a mom that’s devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made towards my son, Sean Combs. It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies,” Janice stated in a message shared by her lawyer Natlie G. Figgers.
She continued:
“To bear witness [sic] what appears to be like a public lynching of my son earlier than he has had the chance to show his innocence is a ache too insufferable to place into phrases.
“Like each human being, my son deserves to have at the present time in court docket, to lastly share his facet, and to show his innocence.”
Diddy’s mother went on to elucidate that she was “not right here to painting [her] son as good as a result of he’s not,” including: “He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have” and saying:
“My son could not have been fully truthful about sure issues, corresponding to denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the resort’s surveillance confirmed in any other case.”
Indeed, in May, CNN obtained surveillance footage from 2016 that featured Diddy grabbing Cassie Ventura outdoors of an elevator… tossing her to the bottom… and kicking her quite a few instances.
“It’s so troublesome to mirror on the darkest instances in your life,” Combs stated in response again then, including by way of Instagram:
“Sometimes you gotta try this. I used to be f-cked up. I imply I hit all-time low however I make no excuses. My conduct on that video is inexcusable.
“I take full duty for my actions in that video.”
As a part of the indictment towards Diddy, in the meantime, authorities say the mogul organized “Freak Offs,” or “elaborate intercourse performances” throughout which girls had been compelled by means of “pressure, threats of pressure, and coercion, to trigger victims to have interaction in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse staff.”
According to this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s properties earlier this yr had been 1,000 bottles of child oil.
Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and sometimes “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting industrial intercourse staff “throughout state traces and internationally.”
Just completely gross and horrible in each method.
Back to Janice, who went on as follows:
“Sometimes, the reality and a lie change into so carefully intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is outdoors the norm or is simply too difficult to be believed.
“This is why I consider my son’s civil authorized workforce opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as a substitute of contesting it till the tip, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this determination towards my son by deciphering it as an act of contrition.
“Not being fully simple about one challenge doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave expenses leveled towards him.
“Many people who had been wrongfully convicted and later exonerated had their freedom taken from them not as a result of they had been responsible of the crimes they had been accused of, however as a result of they didn’t match the picture of what this society considers to be a ‘good particular person.’”
And she concluded:
“Watching the world make jokes and snort at my son’s life crumbling earlier than our eyes is one thing I can always remember. It is really agonizing to look at the world flip towards my son so rapidly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his facet or affording him the chance to current his facet.
“These lies thrown at him are motivated by these looking for a monetary acquire, and never justice. These people noticed how rapidly my son’s civil authorized workforce settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, so that they consider they’ll obtain a fast payday by falsely accusing my son.
“False allegations of sexual assault thwart true victims of sexual violence from getting the justice they deserve.”
Diddy has pleaded not responsible to the fees after he was denied bail twice. He was remanded to Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn till his trial.
