AJChenMPH
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You are certainly entitled to your opinions of MJ, and I won't debate them since I don't have a very high opinion of the man's personal life myself.The children testified behind closed court room doors due to the publicity and under age disclosure to the media....look it up....what I debate is not his music or talent...but his disgusting sexual abuse acts...thats just plain disgusting.
However, I will say that children who testify can be subject to saying whatever their parents tell them to say. I'm not saying that every child in this instance was influenced by their parents...but I will say that, in the middle of a pretty nasty custody case between my parents (who were also divorcing), I was instructed by my father to say certain things about my mother that I thought were true (except that I didn't have direct evidence myself), so I said them to the judge. Now that I'm a lot older, I can see that what I said wasn't true. In my case, it wound up not mattering for the long run, but it still happened.
Also, you all are getting mired down between whether or not he was a child molester legally, and whether or not he was a child molester. The fact is, the prosecution could not build a case to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt (which is the legal standard in the USA for a criminal conviction) that he was a child molester. So okay, he's not a child molester by legal definition. But if you believe he was a child molester regardless of that legal definition, you are entitled to that opinion -- so he's a child molester.
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