The key word here is “legally”.
I know MJ did it behind the scenes under the table out of public view but in this case the witness victim is publicly stating that he was paid off.
This is a criminal matter not a civil trial.
Yes, I don’t see how any confidentiality agreement or recantation he might have signed has any bearing if he is called to testify in a criminal trial. Unless Elmo and the accuser got married, he could be compelled to testify.
Eight years after the fact? Not much evidence left of the act by now. Just the word of the two parties involved.
And a ‘statutory’ rape at that since the affair was apparently consensual and last more than one day.
The ‘kid’ sounds like a jiltded lover seeking revenge.
I wonder how many days this fight is actually over.
Was he 16 and 364 days old?
Or 17 years and1 day old?
Eight years after the fact? Not much evidence left of the act by now. Just the word of the two parties involved.
And a ‘statutory’ rape at that since the affair was apparently consensual and last more than one day.
The ‘kid’ sounds like a jiltded lover seeking revenge.
I wonder how many days this fight is actually over.
Was he 16 and 364 days old?
Or 17 years and1 day old?
Eight years after the fact? Not much evidence left of the act by now. Just the word of the two parties involved.
And a ‘statutory’ rape at that since the affair was apparently consensual and last more than one day.
The ‘kid’ sounds like a jiltded lover seeking revenge.
I wonder how many days this fight is actually over.
Was he 16 and 364 days old?
Or 17 years and1 day old?