Tämä on postattu tänne joskus aiemminkin, mutta koska tänne on sen jälkeen tullut paljon uusia ihmisiä niin postaampa sen uudestaan. Jos joku perustaa MJ:n syyllisyyden siihen että häntä on aiemminkin syytetty samasta, niin ei ole kyllä häntä syyttävän pojan perheen historia mitenkään puhtoinen.
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Family of Jackson's Accuser Has Long History of Legal woes
By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The family of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation has already been involved in two previous cases that involved abuse allegations: a lawsuit in which the family said they were battered by mall security guards, and a divorce fight in which the father pleaded no contest to spousal abuse and child cruelty.
In November of 2001, J.C. Penney Co. paid the boy's family $137,500 to settle a $3 million civil lawsuit alleging security guards beat the boy, his brother, his mother in a parking lot after the boy left the store carrying clothes that hadn't been paid for, court records show.
The mother also contended that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards during the 1998 confrontation.
A month before the settlement, the boy's mother had filed for divorce, beginning a bitter fight that would include criminal charges of abuse. The father's attorney, Russell Halpern, said the mother had lied about the abuse and had a "Svengali-like" ability to make her children repeat her lies.
The family's past legal cases could be critical in the current molestation case, if Jackson attorney Mark Geragos can show the mother or the accuser lacks credibility, said Leonard Levine, a defense attorney who specializes in sexual assault cases.
"It sounds like music to a defense attorney's ears - that there have been other cases where they have sued and there is at least an argument that the allegations are similar to the ones here," Levine said, referring to the claims of physical abuse.
Halpern said the father once showed him a script his wife had allegedly written for their children to use when they were questioned in a civil deposition.
"She wrote out all their testimony. I actually saw the script," Halpern said. "I remember my client showing me, bringing the paperwork to me."
Halpern said it may have been from the J.C. Penney case, but he wasn't sure. J.C. Penney lawyers did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
"Once you can get evidence in that there's previous evidence that either the child or the parents have fabricated evidence or testimony, you're 90 percent to an acquittal," Levine said.
The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse. The child's mother has an unlisted number and could not be located for comment.
Jackson was released on $3 million bail after his surrender Thursday and immediately returned to Las Vegas, where he had been filming a video. Santa Barbara County authorities said Tuesday they now expect to file formal charges sometime in mid-December rather than soon after Thanksgiving.
Jackson's spokesman, Stuart Backerman, declined comment about the past lawsuits involving the accuser's family. Geragos said Tuesday that Jackson's accusers were motivated by money.
In 2002, the boy's father was charged with four counts of child cruelty, and one count each of injuring a child, making a threat and false imprisonment. He pleaded no contest to one count of child cruelty but it was unclear from court records which of his children was involved. The other charges were dismissed.
The father also pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 2001.
In a court document describing the alleged abuse, the boy's mother said that on Sept. 29, 2001, her husband grabbed her and shook her, hit her in the head and pulled her hair. When she fell down, she said, he kicked her.
"He said he hated me and hated our kids and that he was disowning us," she said in the statement. "He said if I ever told anyone about this that he would kill me and the kids would have no mother."
Halpern said the mother made up the abuse allegations and that his client had only pleaded no contest to avoid going to trial. He said that in the case of the threat charge, the mother had encouraged her daughter to falsely accuse her father.
"The allegation was that my client had come to the girl's school and told her he was going to kill her mother. That's what she claimed to the police," Halpern said. "And then when she was in court talking to the judge alone, without the mother around, she changed her story dramatically and said he picked her up from school, talking to her but never threatened anybody.
"She didn't say her mother made her do it, but that's obviously where it came from."
Halpern said the father is now considering seeking custody of the children because, if the allegations against Jackson are true, the mother put their son at risk by letting him be close to Jackson.
If the allegations are untrue, Halpern said, the boy's mother is putting him at legal risk by asking him to lie.
The mother's attorney in the divorce, Michael Manning, declined to comment through his secretary Tuesday. On Monday, Manning told The Associated Press that she had never indicated to him that the singer had sexually abused the boy, and that he remembered the mother saying positive things about Jackson as recently as April or May.
"'He was really good to us' - that's what she said at the time," Manning said.
But on Tuesday, his secretary said the mother had asked Manning to stop talking to the media.
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Family of Jackson's Accuser Has Long History of Legal woes
By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The family of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation has already been involved in two previous cases that involved abuse allegations: a lawsuit in which the family said they were battered by mall security guards, and a divorce fight in which the father pleaded no contest to spousal abuse and child cruelty.
In November of 2001, J.C. Penney Co. paid the boy's family $137,500 to settle a $3 million civil lawsuit alleging security guards beat the boy, his brother, his mother in a parking lot after the boy left the store carrying clothes that hadn't been paid for, court records show.
The mother also contended that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards during the 1998 confrontation.
A month before the settlement, the boy's mother had filed for divorce, beginning a bitter fight that would include criminal charges of abuse. The father's attorney, Russell Halpern, said the mother had lied about the abuse and had a "Svengali-like" ability to make her children repeat her lies.
The family's past legal cases could be critical in the current molestation case, if Jackson attorney Mark Geragos can show the mother or the accuser lacks credibility, said Leonard Levine, a defense attorney who specializes in sexual assault cases.
"It sounds like music to a defense attorney's ears - that there have been other cases where they have sued and there is at least an argument that the allegations are similar to the ones here," Levine said, referring to the claims of physical abuse.
Halpern said the father once showed him a script his wife had allegedly written for their children to use when they were questioned in a civil deposition.
"She wrote out all their testimony. I actually saw the script," Halpern said. "I remember my client showing me, bringing the paperwork to me."
Halpern said it may have been from the J.C. Penney case, but he wasn't sure. J.C. Penney lawyers did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
"Once you can get evidence in that there's previous evidence that either the child or the parents have fabricated evidence or testimony, you're 90 percent to an acquittal," Levine said.
The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse. The child's mother has an unlisted number and could not be located for comment.
Jackson was released on $3 million bail after his surrender Thursday and immediately returned to Las Vegas, where he had been filming a video. Santa Barbara County authorities said Tuesday they now expect to file formal charges sometime in mid-December rather than soon after Thanksgiving.
Jackson's spokesman, Stuart Backerman, declined comment about the past lawsuits involving the accuser's family. Geragos said Tuesday that Jackson's accusers were motivated by money.
In 2002, the boy's father was charged with four counts of child cruelty, and one count each of injuring a child, making a threat and false imprisonment. He pleaded no contest to one count of child cruelty but it was unclear from court records which of his children was involved. The other charges were dismissed.
The father also pleaded no contest to spousal abuse in 2001.
In a court document describing the alleged abuse, the boy's mother said that on Sept. 29, 2001, her husband grabbed her and shook her, hit her in the head and pulled her hair. When she fell down, she said, he kicked her.
"He said he hated me and hated our kids and that he was disowning us," she said in the statement. "He said if I ever told anyone about this that he would kill me and the kids would have no mother."
Halpern said the mother made up the abuse allegations and that his client had only pleaded no contest to avoid going to trial. He said that in the case of the threat charge, the mother had encouraged her daughter to falsely accuse her father.
"The allegation was that my client had come to the girl's school and told her he was going to kill her mother. That's what she claimed to the police," Halpern said. "And then when she was in court talking to the judge alone, without the mother around, she changed her story dramatically and said he picked her up from school, talking to her but never threatened anybody.
"She didn't say her mother made her do it, but that's obviously where it came from."
Halpern said the father is now considering seeking custody of the children because, if the allegations against Jackson are true, the mother put their son at risk by letting him be close to Jackson.
If the allegations are untrue, Halpern said, the boy's mother is putting him at legal risk by asking him to lie.
The mother's attorney in the divorce, Michael Manning, declined to comment through his secretary Tuesday. On Monday, Manning told The Associated Press that she had never indicated to him that the singer had sexually abused the boy, and that he remembered the mother saying positive things about Jackson as recently as April or May.
"'He was really good to us' - that's what she said at the time," Manning said.
But on Tuesday, his secretary said the mother had asked Manning to stop talking to the media.
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