Interesting. I believe the kid. I think the evidence supported his story.
The kids had a tough life, no doubt, and if bad parenting was a crime, this trial would have ended in a conviction. If being a weird freak was a crime, this trial would have ended in a conviction.
IANAL, but I did wonder if there were other, perhaps lesser, crimes they would have had better luck with- child endangerment, or maybe indecency (a lesser crime than molestation?). Anyway, I'm not happy about the whole thing, but at least I'm not in CA, and it wasn't my tax money that paid for it....