Jacko Innocent After All?

[arisbe]

DECEMBER 9--A confidential investigation by Los Angeles police and child welfare officials concluded earlier this year that allegations Michael Jackson sexually abused a cancer-stricken boy were "unfounded," according to an internal government memo obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The probe's findings were based, in large part, on interviews with the alleged victim, his two siblings, and the boy's mother. According to the memo, when the child was questioned in February by a social worker assigned to the Sensitive Case Unit of L.A.'s Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS), he "denied any form of sexual abuse" by Jackson and said that he never "slept in the same bed as the entertainer." While not specifically named in the DCFS memo, the 45-year-old Jackson is referred to repeatedly as "the entertainer."

The memo notes that the boy, now 14, and his 12-year-old brother--who also denied sexual abuse--expressed "a fondness for the entertainer and stated they enjoyed visiting his home, where they would often ride in the park, play video games, and watch movies." The pair's sister, now 17, told a social worker that she accompanied the boys on "sleepovers at the entertainers home," but had "never seen anything sexually inappropriate between her brothers and the entertainer."

Go ahead and throw stuff at me, but I can't help hoping that he really is innocent. Though even if he is publicly exonerated, a great many people will believe he got away with it.

Comments

Re: You can BEAT IT, but be careful about it.

[dotmeister.livejournal.com]

But doesn't that apply to any human that does things differently than the norm? Regardless of what the police expect, not all officers are on the straight. If there were two suspects for the same crime, both with valid points that could be considered evidence, which would they follow up on and think about more? The person that on the outside appears to be a law abiding citizen, or the person that is into S&M that wears leather and carries a flogger? Granted, there's lots of situations that can be apparent, but which person do you think they are going to wonder about more? The norm? Or the odd?