Jackson Charges Will Be Difficult to Prove (Fox 411)
Thursday, December 18, 2003
By Roger Friedman
Jackson Charges Will Be Difficult to Prove
Michael Jackson may be weird, he may act inappropriately with children,
he may even be completely nuts. But the nine charges leveled against him
this afternoon by the Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon do not
look strong enough to convict him of child molestation. Poor judgment is
more like it.
At worst, Sneddon may have Jackson on the two charges of 贈dministering an
intoxicating agent.?I told you first, back on Nov. 19, that Jackson would
be accused of giving the 12-year-old boy wine and sleeping pills. That would
apply to the two last charges in the felony complaint against him.
But the boy in question, his brother and mother appeared with Jackson in
an ABC special that aired on Feb. 6, 2003. Subsequently, an investigation
by the Los Angeles County Child Protective Services took place between
Feb. 14 and 28 that concluded no abuse had taken place.
Sneddon is now asking us to believe that beginning on the day after the
special aired, and while the investigation was taking place, Jackson
decided to commit seven lewd acts upon the boy. It旧 possible, but it
seems implausible.
Mark Geragos, Jackson旧 attorney, will offer dozens of witnesses who
passed through Neverland between the dates on Sneddon旧 complaint --
Feb. 7 through March 10 -- and saw nothing of consequence. He will also
have testimony from Neverland staffers who will claim that Jackson was
never alone with the boy, and certainly not enough to commit lewd acts
on seven separate occasions.
I will tell you stories in the weeks to come of children who Jackson
befriended, as well as their families. (I挙e no doubt others will, too.)
They may seem very strange. But do they make him a pedophile?
Sneddon has promised in the past that more children would start coming f
orward to tell their stories. So far, none have done that. Only this one
boy, from a family that has spent a good deal of time wresting large cash
settlements and making accusations based on race and sex against companies.
Sneddon is going to have a hard time proving that none of that matters,
or that Michael Jackson is guilty of more than making fun of the district
attorney in a song.
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