Day 29: 1993 Accuser's Mother Admits She Never Witnessed Any Molestation by Michael Jackson

Monday, 11 April 2005

Day 29 brought the mother of a boy who received a settlement from Michael Jackson in 1993 to the stand. After the boy received a reported multimillion-dollar settlement from Mr. Jackson, he did not cooperate in a law enforcement investigation, nor does he intend to now. No charges were ever filed against Mr. Jackson in the matter. She admitted that she never witnessed any molestation or improper acts between Mr. Jackson and her son.

The woman's now 25-year-old son is not expected to testify at Mr. Jackson's trial in the California town of Santa Maria. The woman is one of the most important witnesses to be called by prosecutors to testify to previous alleged abuse of five young boys by Mr. Jackson, although she admitted that she had not spoken to her son for 11 years.

The question remains whether her son will not speak to her because he is upset over what allegedly happened between himself and Mr. Jackson or perhaps whether he is upset at the allegations that he was possibly forced to bring against Mr. Jackson, thereby forever altering his life, his privacy and his future.

Earlier Monday, another witness surprised the prosecution by saying he did not remember seeing the pop star lick the same boy's head during a long flight in the early 1990s, but he later reversed himself and said it must have happened after being confronted with an e-mail he wrote.

The extremely consistent pattern of prosecution witnesses having memory lapses continued as former Michael Jackson publicist Bob Jones initially testified that "I don't recall ever seeing any head licking" by Mr. Jackson on the flight from Paris to Los Angeles.

Prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss then read a proposed passage from a book Jones is writing that stated that Mr. Jackson licked the boy's head.

Prosecutors claim Mr. Jackson also licked the head of a boy who now accuses Mr. Jackson of molesting him in early 2003.

Bob Jones was fired by Mr. Jackson a year ago. Reportedly, Jones was very angry about the termination.

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr., Jones said that passages he writes are completed by a co-writer, MSNBC correspondent, Stacy Brown, and then reviewed. Jones said he had not reviewed the passage and it was inaccurate.

Jones was only the most recent prosecution witness to surprise prosecutors. For example, former Mr. Jackson former house manager Jesus Salas had told investigators that he brought wine to Mr. Jackson and several boys, but said on the stand that he had just remembered that he brought soda as well as wine.

Source: MJJsource