[Hildy]

I believe fondling a child and exposing oneself should not carry the same penalty as sodomy. I'm pasting this from the FOXnews wesbite:

The 45-year-old "King of Pop" was accused of multiple counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14.

[cajungirl]

Let's see. Over a period of weeks and months, Jackson paid his bills, had him over, the kid called him Daddy, and then he escalated to something. If it was similar to the last kid, it included sleeping together, buying presents, taking baths, masturbating, tongue kissing, etc all in the guise of being the childs Daddy and friend. You can reduce that to a little fondling but in my box that is a serious assault on a childs ability to love, trust, enjoy his body and become a normal sexual being at the proper age. That is a wound that most children never recover from. It scars them for life. "Fondling" is rarely ever just fondling. It is emotional seduction, betrayal and making a child feel sexually excited while doing so. It is unspeakable. Now what penalty would you deem appropriate for that in this context including money, the proving his mother did not protect him, the love letters, a year long oddyssey while the child had cancer and no father around. Consider all the circumstances if true and what would you do to him knowing he has done this over and over and over.