I have been surprised at all the charges that there must be other victims. I would assume this would have been the time to come forward. Their stories would be believed and add weight to the prosecution claims. But nobody else showed up. Where are all these victims, surely they heard he was on trial.
A boy sleeping with a man is highly inappropriate, but absent any other behavior is not aginst the law. MJ is admittedly guilty of sleeping with children and has been for years. Did that fact, even absent molesting, bother the mother?
[we must be careful what laws we ask for. I would not want one that made a criminal out of me for watching a video with my nephew and both of us falling asleep in a bed.]
Two previous Jackson acquaintances were paid off, and refused to testify.