Posted on 11/23/2003 9:36:27 AM PST by Sabertooth
EXPLICIT letters and poems said to have been written by Michael Jackson to his alleged victim will form the centrepiece of the sex-abuse case against him. Police seized at least a dozen letters during the raid on Jackson's Neverland ranch last week.
"The district attorney is convinced these letters will be crucial to the case against Jackson," a source close to the investigation said yesterday.
"The boy told investigators about letters and poems and their precise location inside Michael's home. These letters were among the evidence seized, along with videotapes.
"They are very explicit and intimate and show a degree of familiarity. Basically, they appear to be love letters from Michael to the boy."
The accuser, 12-year-old Los Angeles cancer victim ******, also told police Jackson's pet name for him was Rubba.
"The boy first told this to his therapist, then repeated it to police," the source said.
"He said Jackson called him Rubba because one of the games they used to play was called rubba rubba. The boy said, 'Michael told me he was my rubba rubba friend."'
Although police handling the case in Santa Barbara, California, have been barred from revealing any details, it is understood the alleged abuse took place in February.
Jackson is said to have befriended ****** -- who, during a controversial British documentary screened earlier this year, admitted having shared a bed with the singer -- over a long period.
A source close to 45-year-old Jackson said: "For the past five or six years, he's taken kids from fractured homes and nurtured them as a father figure. As they get older, he teaches them fun things to do.
"Michael says he learned this from an adult when he was a teenager. No-one on his staff ever said anything. He's a tyrant. Everybody obeys the man."
Another Jackson source said: "The boy told of everything that went on and described things in Michael's closets, his bathroom, what was under his bed."
In her statements to police, ******'s mother, #####, has revealed that Jackson encouraged her son to call him "Daddy".
##### has claimed she, ****** and his two siblings were held virtual prisoners at Neverland, 100km north of Santa Barbara.
When she learned of her son's accusations of molestation -- which included claims that Jackson plied him with wine and sleeping pills -- she fled with her family in the dead of night.
A source close to district attorney Tom Sneddon, who will prosecute the case, said: "The DA is very confident with the evidence he has. This includes letters, videos and computer files. They believe they have enough to nail Jackson."
Jackson's legal team is said to be encouraging him to consider a plea bargain, possibly an insanity defence that would allow him to serve time in a state mental hospital instead of jail.
There was speculation yesterday that the singer raised his $3 million bail with the help of Miami-based Al Malnik, a lawyer for notorious gangster Meyer Lansky, who died in 1983.
Malnik reportedly began making large loans to Jackson when his career nosedived.
Malnik, 69, was cited by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1980 and 1992 as a person of unsuitable character.
The prosecution source said: "It just gets weirder and weirder. Michael supposedly has financial problems, but hiring someone with Mob connections is bizarre."
Prosecutors are said to be spreading a net around the world for other alleged victims. One boy of special interest is said to be in El Salvador, another in South Africa.
They are also said to be considering quizzing the son of an English premiership footballer.
Charges of aiding and abetting are likely to be filed against members of Jackson's entourage.
At the same time as the Neverland swoop, police raided two homes in Los Angeles.
One was reportedly the residence of Marc Schaffel, a gay video producer who filmed the rebuttal tape Jackson released just after Martin Bashir's British documentary aired.
Picture any man Michael Jackson's age that doesn't have himself made up to look androgynous and non-masculine, non-threatening.
These men may not be his age, but I'll just throw a few out here.
Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Lenny Kravitz, Bruce Willis, George Clooney, Denzel Washington.
Now picture any of these men going on TV and saying they have boys sleep over and it's an act of love to share their bed. Who'd go for it? Nobody.
Michael Jackson has used his surgery and image to appear non-masculine and non-threatening to make his predatory behavior with boys more acceptable to the general public.
Are you speaking about your personal experience ?
Men are falsely accused of rape. But to you, an accusation is enough for conviction. Damn the trial. We don't need no stinking due process!
The problem is not false accusations but actual rapes and enabling fans who support it.
The perps have too much due process as it is with lying, deceiving, parasitic lawyers who willingly put perps back on the street to make more victims.
Sorry, all out of sympathy for perps and their support infrastructure. It is on back order. Check back next week. The child molester perp who got out of prison and was found dead with his partner is first in line though. Someone asked for sympathy for them first.
Speaking of fans, how are your teams doing ?
All your passion is poured into defending these perps. I don't regard you as neutral. Your bias is with the perps (and they are perps).
Al Capone was imprisoned for income tax evasion and lgoic suggests to me you might defend him as a white collar criminal falsely accused of rape and murder and targeted by the government for his ethnicity.
You are lying. I certainly do want perps to have trials.
Fair trials and fast hangings
I would also like to understand why you appears on the perp threads siding with the perps. I find that curious. How did they gain your allegiance?
Not MY personal experience, but a friend of mine.
The problem is not false accusations but actual rapes and enabling fans who support it.
You still don't get it do you? You actually think people who don't immediately convict an accused rapist in their mind would knowingly support a rapist? I guess you do. JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK HE IS A RAPIST DOESN'T MAKE HIM SO---unless you have a videotape---irrefutable evidence (NOT circumstancial)---in addition to your say-so. You know, something to back it up.
I do not have sympathy for those that willingly or carelessly hurt others. But I believe in due process. I know nothing about Kobe, but I haven't heard any reports of him coming off as a rapist. I'll wait for the trial to see all the evidence. But I know alot about Michael. And the more I learn the more I see a classic pedophile. The man had a chance to clean up his act ten years ago. He did not.
And well, Mavs beat Spurs 95-93 I was happy/sad! Mavs just won their last game, Spurs, too. But I wish there weren't so many games though! I'm better at catching them come playoffs. I'm a lazy fan.
I get it. You try to pretend they are not rapists so you don't have to look in the mirror and realize you publicly defended one.
You are not a juror. You don't get to decide the trial. OJ Simpson walked out a free man with blood on his hands.
Your support for Bill Clinton vs. Juanita Broaddrick is duly noted. He raped her. I say so. No videotape. No irrefutable evidence. Just her word against his.
Cajungirl expressed my sentiment.
I want you to look yourself in the mirror and honestly answer yourself as to why you are biased in favor of these two perps (Bryant/Jackson).
Sex tourism is especially on the rise in countries in Central and South America. In Colombia, for example, there was a 500 percent increase in sexual exploitation of children between the ages of 8 and 13 between 1986 and 1993. In Nicaragua, approximately 92 percent of prostitutes are between the ages of 12 and 18. Although the number of child victims of prostitution is highest in Asia and Central and South America, there is not a country in the world that is immune to the problem.(Source: UNCEF, "Issue Summary: Sexual Exploitation of Children")
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