I think you are so right -- this man has clearly needed psychiatric help for a long, long time. It was easy for everybody to look the other way and unwittingly to exploit him when he was a talented, cute little kid; nobody
apparently really looked into *what* was happening with his
family. But that's what happens a lot, kids are sexually exploited, or abused in a bunch of different ways, and they sometimes grow up to be monstrous, in one way or another. Whether he molested this child or not, or exploited he and his brother, Bonnie is correct -- this is somebody who needs major, major help and prison isn't gonna do it for him (and he'll still be a danger once he's released). However, when people are mentally ill like MJ clearly is, and so narcissistic/self-involved/bizarre, it makes it understandable that we want to make fun of him for being so different and "bad" (I put bad in quotes because he hasn't been convicted...yet)and it's easy to lose any sympathy for him *at all*. I guess you could say there really are two sides of it and it's all very sad....
But abusing an already abused cancer patient is beyond the pale. Jackson knows he is guilty and facing his accuser must be a little "stressful" for him.
fruitcake award -- and on your first day, too.