Mother of MJ's accuser in a mental ward.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
By Roger Friedman
The mother of Michael Jackson’s 12-year-old accuser spent time in a mental hospital in 1998, according to court documents filed by the woman's ex-husband. The court papers are from the mother’s ongoing bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, who filed an affidavit with Los Angeles Superior Court on January 28, 2004.
I’ve seen the papers. In them, the father — a union member who says he’s currently taking part in the supermarket worker strike in Los Angeles — claims that his wife spent time at the Kaiser Permanente Mental Health facility in downtown L.A. in 1998. He does not specify how much time she spent there.
H. Russell Halpern, the father’s lawyer in his custody case, told me yesterday that the statement is true and that insurance records will back it up. Asked how much time the mother spent at Kaiser, he replied: “I don’t know.”
A man who answered the phone at Kaiser last night told me that the average length of stay is seven days. “You can only come in here through a referral from a Kaiser emergency room.”
The father — who was accused by his ex-wife of domestic abuse during their divorce — paints a picture of his ex-wife as an unstable woman who has convinced her children to make up stories in other situations that might benefit them.
The father also claims in his affidavit that his ex-wife coached their kids to lie in her case against J.C. Penney — in which she ultimately won $163,000 in damages.
“She would write questions and answers for the kids,” he writes, “to study and practice with her.”
I am also told by sources involved directly with the parents’ case that depositions exist which could cast an even worse light on the mother. Apparently, the mother and her three children told lawyers in the J.C. Penney lawsuit that they were never abused by the father, contradicting their other statements.
All of this will be used by Jackson’s lawyers to the extent that it can to depict the mother as an opportunist who turned on Jackson when she thought her connection to Neverland and all its amenities was being cut off.
According to court papers, the mother went back into Family Court on March 11, 2003 to have her child support payments increased to $1,499 a month — almost double what she’d been receiving up until then.
The date of the mother’s demand for more money from her ex-husband is interesting in that she filed for emergency help on March 3, 2003. Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon’s charges against Jackson are seven counts of child molestation between Feb. 6 and March 10. The sudden need for more money seems to coincide with the family’s ouster from Neverland after a year-and-a-half of living off Jackson’s largesse.
Michael Manning, the mother’s attorney in her divorce case, did not return calls
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110526,00.html
Thursday, February 05, 2004
By Roger Friedman
The mother of Michael Jackson’s 12-year-old accuser spent time in a mental hospital in 1998, according to court documents filed by the woman's ex-husband. The court papers are from the mother’s ongoing bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, who filed an affidavit with Los Angeles Superior Court on January 28, 2004.
I’ve seen the papers. In them, the father — a union member who says he’s currently taking part in the supermarket worker strike in Los Angeles — claims that his wife spent time at the Kaiser Permanente Mental Health facility in downtown L.A. in 1998. He does not specify how much time she spent there.
H. Russell Halpern, the father’s lawyer in his custody case, told me yesterday that the statement is true and that insurance records will back it up. Asked how much time the mother spent at Kaiser, he replied: “I don’t know.”
A man who answered the phone at Kaiser last night told me that the average length of stay is seven days. “You can only come in here through a referral from a Kaiser emergency room.”
The father — who was accused by his ex-wife of domestic abuse during their divorce — paints a picture of his ex-wife as an unstable woman who has convinced her children to make up stories in other situations that might benefit them.
The father also claims in his affidavit that his ex-wife coached their kids to lie in her case against J.C. Penney — in which she ultimately won $163,000 in damages.
“She would write questions and answers for the kids,” he writes, “to study and practice with her.”
I am also told by sources involved directly with the parents’ case that depositions exist which could cast an even worse light on the mother. Apparently, the mother and her three children told lawyers in the J.C. Penney lawsuit that they were never abused by the father, contradicting their other statements.
All of this will be used by Jackson’s lawyers to the extent that it can to depict the mother as an opportunist who turned on Jackson when she thought her connection to Neverland and all its amenities was being cut off.
According to court papers, the mother went back into Family Court on March 11, 2003 to have her child support payments increased to $1,499 a month — almost double what she’d been receiving up until then.
The date of the mother’s demand for more money from her ex-husband is interesting in that she filed for emergency help on March 3, 2003. Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon’s charges against Jackson are seven counts of child molestation between Feb. 6 and March 10. The sudden need for more money seems to coincide with the family’s ouster from Neverland after a year-and-a-half of living off Jackson’s largesse.
Michael Manning, the mother’s attorney in her divorce case, did not return calls
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110526,00.html
Vastaukset 7
Vanhimmat
Otteita Larry King Live-ohjelmasta, jossa oli vieraana Ed Bradley jonka oli tarkoitus haastatella MJ viime helmikuussa, juuri samaan aikaan kuin syytteiden mukaan hyväksikäyttö tapahtui.
"KING: The Jackson interview. How did it happen?
BRADLEY: You know, the Michael Jackson interview is an interview that we have been working on for more than a year. Last February I was out at Neverland, we had been working on it for some months at that time. I went out with my crews, producer, associate producer, sat down with Michael, just the two of us in a room. Left everybody outside and talked for about half an hour.
KING: Months ago?
BRADLEY: This is last February, almost a year ago. And Michael said, fine. I'm going to trust you. And he told me how his trust had been betrayed by other journalists. And I just said, look, you know me, you know my work. If you want to do this, fine, if not, I understand. And he said, I'm going to trust you and go upstairs and get ready for the interview.
His guys told me that could take an hour and a half to two hours because he'll have to get made up, his clothes. When I talked to him he had on a pajama top, he had pants on, but he had a pajama top on.
KING: This is the day of the interview or months before.
BRADLEY: This is in February. We were going to do this interview that day.
KING: I see.
BRADLEY: I say to my guys, bring in the camera gear, set up and he'll be down in an hour or so. And, as I was told later, when he was just about made up and dressed, someone came in with a phone and said, you've got a call from Marlin Brando. Brando told him that the deposition, which had been sealed in 1992 from the first case when he was accused of child molestation.
KING: And settled.
BRADLEY: Settled so that it would be kept secret. Brando told him that that deposition had been released. It was on the Internet and it would be all over the world by tomorrow and it would be in the tabloids in the United States the next day. Michael Jackson, we never saw him again. He didn't say I'm not going to do the interview, he just disappeared.
KING: Someone came and told you.
BRADLEY: We sat there for hours waiting. It was his people. Mark Geragos just started at the head of his legal team at that time.
KING: This was before the charges were brought, now, way before.
BRADLEY: Oh, yes. In fact, the kid who is now charging him and his mother were there that day.
KING: Really?
BRADLEY: We sat in the kitchen having coffee and doughnuts and sodas and his mother and the kids said they were willing to go on television to say what a great person Michael Jackson was.
KING: Wow. Hold it right there. And Brando was wrong, right?
BRADLEY: Well no, because the deposition wasn't...
KING: Was it released?
BRADLEY: It was released. And it was all over the tabloids the next day.
KING: Oh, was it.
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KING: Back to last February when you met the mother and the kid, what did you think when you heard it was that mother and that kid?
BRADLEY: I was stunned because they were there to tell me that day what a great person he was.
KING: Were you going to put them on camera?
BRADLEY: We hadn't gone that far.
KING: Might you have?
BRADLEY: I don't know. I honestly don't know. I don't know. The kid was in the documentary that the BBC -- not BBC, but the English program did. I forget his name now.
KING: But you were shocked that the kid -- that was the kid?
BRADLEY: I was shocked that that was the kid because both the child and his mother were praising Michael and were sitting there in his kitchen eating and saying what a great person he was.
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KING: Did you suspect -- did you come away with any opinion?
BRADLEY: I came away not convinced that he is a pedophile. I think that that's something that only a jury can decide. They have to look at the evidence, and I haven't seen all the evidence. But I came away not convinced that he is a pedophile, but convinced that he doesn't make sound decisions. That having already been accused in 1992, got to be extra careful about what it is that you do and not allow yourself to be put in a position where you could be accused again."
Koko teksti:
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/04/lkl.01.html
Ei toi mitään todista! =) Michael joutuu linnaan. =)
Ei niin, mutta se antaa taas yhden syyn lisää epäillä noiden syytteiden todenperäisyyttä.. Perheen tausta nimittäin merkitsee oikeudessa jonkin verran.
Todisteiden valossa Michael ei ainakaan ole se, joka tässä jutussa linnaan joutuu.
Sehän onkin mukavaa jos Jackson vapautuu sen ansiosta, että perheen taustat eivät ole kunnossa. Jacksonin asianajajathan tekevät kaikkensa, jotta epäilty uhri saataisiin näyttämään valehtelijalta.
Sillä tavalla sitä on moni syyllinenkin vapautunut.
Mistä sinä muuten tiedät niin paljon todisteista? Onko sinulla noitatohtori mahdollisesti tämän tapauksen tutkineen poliisin tutkintamateriaali käytössäsi?
"Sehän onkin mukavaa jos Jackson vapautuu sen ansiosta, että perheen taustat eivät ole kunnossa."
Tuskinpa nyt sillä tiedolla koko oikeusjuttua voitetaan.. Se vain vahvistaa ihmisten mielikuvaa siitä, millainen sen pojan äiti on ihmisenä: kallonkutistusta ja oikeusjuttuja.
"Mistä sinä muuten tiedät niin paljon todisteista? Onko sinulla noitatohtori mahdollisesti tämän tapauksen tutkineen poliisin tutkintamateriaali käytössäsi?"
Ei nyt sentään. =) Olen lukenut tämän jutun tutkintapöytäkirjoja, ja seurannut tarkkaan kaikki LA:n poliisin lausunnot. Suuri osa niissä annetuista tiedoista kumoaa lehdistön suurelle yleisölle jakamat väitteet, joiden mukaan Neverlandista olisi löydetty raskauttavia todisteita (poliisit takavarikoivat kirjoja, muistiinpanoja, tietokoneen näppäimistöineen ym tavaroita).
Myös järjen käyttö on sallittua: jos Michael Jacksonia vastaan olisi löydetty raskauttavia todisteita, ei hän kyllä kuljeskelisi vapaalla jalalla, vaan olisi tutkintavankeudessa.
Näiden juttujen lisäksi sekä pojan että hänen äitinsä taustat ovat epäilyttäviä, kuten onkin jo moneen otteeseen mainittu. Se ei todellakaan ole omiaan vähentämään epäilyksiäni koko syytösten todenperäisyyttä koskien.
Oletko muuten kuullut ajankohdista jona ahdistelua väitetään tapahtuneen? Gavin mainitsi kuulusteluissa 3 päivämäärää.
Aika vakuuttava viittaus MJ:n syyttömyyteen on se, ettei hän edes kahtena noista mainituista päivämääristä ollut lähelläkään Neverlandia!
Taitaapa olla amerikassa kuitenkin niin että kun on lompsassa tarpeeksi vääntöä niin pääsee vapaalta vastaamaan syytteeseen kuin syytteeseen, jos vain tuomari myöntää takuusumman.