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Witness Says MJ Molested Him.............
« on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 10:42am »

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SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A man who now mentors teens in an anti-truancy program says that he was fondled by Michael Jackson in three separate tickling incidents while they watched cartoons.

With his voice breaking frequently, the 24-year-old witness testified that over a span of several years, Jackson twice touched his clothes in the groin area at the singer's Los Angeles-area condominium and once reached under his clothes at Jackson's Neverland ranch.

"He was tickling me. I was wearing shorts again. ... He reached on my leg and I'm still laughing and he reached up to my - privates," the witness said Monday, describing the third alleged incident.

Prosecutors called the witness to the stand as they tried to show the jury that Jackson has a pattern of molesting boys. Testimony in the singer's child molestation trial was set to resume Tuesday.

The witness, who received a $2.4 million settlement from Jackson in 1994, said the alleged molestation happened while his mother was Jackson's personal maid. He also said he was between 7 and 10, and that Jackson gave him $100 after each of the first two incidents, but nothing following the third.

"We were tickling. He was tickling and I was laughing and the - it was, he was - he was tickling me in the... ," the witness said before asking the judge for a break. He wiped his eyes and drank some water.

At one point, the witness apologized to prosecutor Ron Zonen for his halting testimony and said, "This took a lot of counseling to get over, just to let you know."

The defense asked that the comment be struck from the record and Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville agreed.

The witness said he never talked about the incidents with anyone until 1993, when investigators came to him after another boy made allegations against Jackson in a civil case. The other boy also would later receive a settlement, reportedly in the multimillion-dollar range. No criminal charges were filed in either case.

The housekeeper's son, now married and working in an anti-truancy program, was asked at the outset of his testimony if he could identify Jackson in court.

"He's the light-complected gentleman," the witness said, smiling at Jackson.

The witness also described two earlier alleged incidents that involved Jackson touching him over his clothes at a Los Angeles-area condominium he and his mother referred to as Jackson's "hideaway."

"We were watching cartoons and he just started tickling me which was - cool," he said of the first incident.

"It eventually moved down to my little private region, I guess ... around my crotch area. You know, you're 7, you didn't think it was wrong. ... I probably did think it was weird but not super-weird because you were tickling," he said.

In another incident, he said, Jackson began tickling him as they were cuddling on top of a sleeping bag while watching cartoons. He described the tickling episode in the same way.

Asked who he first told, the witness said, "Probably God."

Jackson is on trial on charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003, giving him wine and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive to get them to make a video rebutting a TV documentary in which Jackson said he allowed children to sleep in his bed, though he characterized it as non-sexual.

On cross-examination, Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. sought to show that the latest witness' mother had a financial interest in his story, asking if she had received $20,000 to appear on "Hard Copy" and had met with someone from The National Enquirer.

The witness said he learned of the payment just days ago, but saw the show when it aired. He said he was unaware of a meeting with the Enquirer.

The witness also acknowledged that in talking to police in 1993 about the alleged condominium incidents he had said that after the tickling started, "I had this blank-out, I can't remember anything else."

"I blocked it out. I didn't blank it out. I didn't want to ever talk about this stuff again," he said.

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Re: Witness Says MJ Molested Him.............
« Reply #1 on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 11:51am »

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I'm glad this one didn't flee the country like the other one. It's hard to come forward on something like this, and it's painful to have to go through, but it's important to stop pedafiles from continuing to have access to children if you can. It's unfortunate that the other boy who received a settlement can only think about his own pain and is unwilling to take part in this.

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I pray fervently that they get this man. I don't believe for one second he is innocent. Too much smoke!

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Waaaaayyyyy too much smoke...

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« Reply #4 on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 10:10pm »

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A dear male friend, who is in his 60's, told me recently that he was molested as a young boy of 9 or 10.
He said a friend of his father touched his private parts ONE time.
He doesn't remember all of the details, but he still thinks about it. He tries to make sense of it and why it happened and if he could have prevented it.
I am the only person he has told about this!
If this can cause a person to think about the incident that happened over 55 years ago, what are these boys feeling??
And how many times is this happening every day, in every part of the world?

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« Reply #5 on: Apr 6^th, 2005, 8:11am »

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hopefully the jury will lock him up and throw away the key!

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« Reply #6 on: Apr 6^th, 2005, 8:42am »

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It's a sick, twisted world we live in where people will try to hide something as perverse as this. That's why I'm so thankful to have such good friends!

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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's former personal maid testified Tuesday that she saw the pop star showering and laughing with a young boy at Neverland Ranch -- with their underwear lying outside the shower door.

However, the woman said that in the years she worked for Jackson, she never saw him touch a child sexually, although his behavior did make her uncomfortable and "concerned" for her own preteen son, who often came to work with her at Jackson's suggestion.

Her son testified Monday that he had been fondled by Jackson on three occasions but did not tell his mother until years afterward. (Monday's testimony)

Both the mother and son in 1996 reached an out-of-court financial settlement with Jackson in which the entertainer denied wrongdoing.

Taking the stand at Jackson's child molestation trial, the former maid also said child movie star Macaulay Culkin stayed alone with Jackson in his bedroom when he visited for extended periods, though she did not say she saw any improper contact between the two.

The woman said the boy she saw showering with Jackson was about 8 years old when he started staying at Neverland for weeks at a time over about a year, starting in 1989. She said he would sleep overnight in Jackson's bedroom suite, and, when she went to change the linen, she would find only one of the two beds in the suite had been used.

The 46-year-old singer is accused of molesting a boy -- now 15 years old -- at Neverland Ranch, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive in 2003.

Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The woman, who worked for Jackson from 1986 until 1991 and had a key to his bedroom, is testifying as part of prosecutors' efforts to prove the pop star had a pattern of grooming young boys for sexual abuse.

Maid: Jackson encouraged her to bring son
In her testimony Tuesday, the former maid described hearing laughter coming from the bathroom in Jackson's suite. When she walked inside, water was running, the radio was playing and she could see figures through the shower door, although the door itself was too cloudy to see through.

She said she identified the voices as Jackson and the boy. Because her job was to launder their clothes, she also said she could identify that the underwear she saw on the floor belonged to them.

But fearing that Jackson would become angry if he knew she had come into the bathroom, she said she left and never told him she had been there.

She said Jackson encouraged her to bring her own then-preteen son with her when she came to work. She testified that she did, even though she "was concerned for my son" because she "saw little things before with other kids."

Her son told jurors Monday that following each of the three alleged fondling incidents, Jackson gave him a $100 bill and told him not to tell his mother about the money.

His mother testified Tuesday that she found two $100 bills in her son's pocket one day after they left a Los Angeles apartment where Jackson lived prior to buying Neverland. She said her son told her that the money was a "secret" and that "Michael told me it was for me and not to tell you."

She also said she once found her son sitting on Jackson's lap and pulled him off. On another occasion, she said she found the two of them lying together in a sleeping bag and ordered her son to come out. He refused, she said.

When she would take the boy to work with her, she would tell him to stay downstairs because she knew Jackson was upstairs.

"I told my son not to go with him," she said.

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