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Was MJ actually convicted of child molestation?

I'm thinking he wasn't.  Could it be that the people who brought the allegations against him just wanted some money?
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Re: Was MJ actually convicted of child molestation?

  • I believe he was aquitted.
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  • No.

    He did admit to having young boys sleep in his bed. I don't know if he slept there with them. 

    I feel like there are two Michael Jacksons - the one we grew up with and this new one. The 2 don't even look alike. 

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  • He was acquitted of all charges...wouldn't be the first time people used their children to get money.
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  • He was never convicted, no. Of course people have been motivated by money to make the accusations, or he could have really abused those children. We'll never know.
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  • He was aquitted. I do believe he is a bit crazy but I do not believe he was a child molestor.
  • aquited of charges.  i thought he settled the civil suit with money.  amount not released to publc.  
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  • I think he was acused twice. I know the most recent was in 2005 for which he was aquitted.  The first time (mid 90's I beleive) they settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and the mother of the boy was later reavealed to be into some pretty shady stuff.
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    No.

    He did admit to having young boys sleep in his bed. I don't know if he slept there with them. 

    I feel like there are two Michael Jacksons - the one we grew up with and this new one. The 2 don't even look alike. 

    But lets say he did sleep in bed with young boys.  That doesn't mean he molested them.  I know my DH has fallen asleep with the little boy we babysat and no one thought anything about it.  

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  • I believe innocent until proven guilty is the way our system is designed to work...that doesn't mean that all people that go on trial that get away with stuff truly are innocent...they might just have the best lawyers money can buy...just MHO.
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  • No and like someone else said there's was good motivation for false accusations, but there was also a good amount of incriminating evidence, so it's up to one's own judgement.
  • imageimaPrincess:
    I believe innocent until proven guilty is the way our system is designed to work...that doesn't mean that all people that go on trial that get away with stuff truly are innocent...they might just have the best lawyers money can buy...just MHO.

    Yes

  • imageTTCinOC:
    He was acquitted of all charges...wouldn't be the first time people used their children to get money.

     

     I agree with this.

  • imageMommy2Gav:
    He was aquitted. I do believe he is a bit crazy but I do not believe he was a child molestor.

    I truly believe that he was just a very misunderstood artist who had his childhood stolen from him.  He was trying to live the childhood he never had though other children.  

    I bet his mental age was probably around 10ish, kinda like a boy who never grew up.

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  • imageDiscusCoach:

    He did admit to having young boys sleep in his bed. I don't know if he slept there with them. 

    He was never found guilty. He settled out of court with the family of the first child and was acquitted the second time around. And it's fully possible that people were money grubbing but at the same time the above statement that he made on a documentary about thinking that sharing your bed with children is the most loving thing that you can do put him in the skeevy and not to be trusted category in my eyes.

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    imageMommy2Gav:
    He was aquitted. I do believe he is a bit crazy but I do not believe he was a child molestor.

    I truly believe that he was just a very misunderstood artist who had his childhood stolen from him.  He was trying to live the childhood he never had though other children.  

    I bet his mental age was probably around 10ish, kinda like a boy who never grew up.

    I agree.  If anyone is a bad person it's his dad for screwing him up. 

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  • imageimaPrincess:
    I believe innocent until proven guilty is the way our system is designed to work...that doesn't mean that all people that go on trial that get away with stuff truly are innocent...they might just have the best lawyers money can buy...just MHO.

    Sadly this is too often true:( That and there is always SO much evidence in many cases that a jury doesn't see. 

  • imageTTCinOC:
    He was acquitted of all charges...wouldn't be the first time people used their children to get money.

     Agreed!  

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  • I'm not worried so much whether he molested kids or not.  I'm not a lawyer nor was I one of the kids he allegedly* molested.  There is no way, however, Michael Jackson would have had the opportunity to babysit  my kids. 

    What is turning my stomach is people like my sister who actually said:

    "GOOD! I'm glad he is dead.  Now he wont molest lilttle boys anymore"

    WTF?  He had kids too!

  • Yeah, he was acquitted, but so was OJ Simpson when there was loads of DNA evidence against him.

    Celebrities are held to different standards than the rest of us. 

  • imagemrsmyers8:
    aquited of charges.  i thought he settled the civil suit with money.  amount not released to publc.  

    Yep! Paid off the families of the victims. hush hush

  • It doesn't matter to me.  My opinion of him is unchanged.  Creepy, weird, and likely a pedophile.  I'm not dancing in the streets that he's dead, but neither am I broken up about it.  My world is pretty unaltered by this news.  If that makes me a callous person, so be it. 

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