I think it will be very difficult for a lot of these cases that might be coming up. For one thing, I am seeing a lot of talk about how there was "no evidence."
The thing is, with molestation, it's hard to find "evidence" other than the child's accusations. Molesters don't usually molest on camera, or in the company of witnesses. Molesting per se is not going to leave the bruises and tearing that a rape would, so there would be little or no physical evidence. Demanding physical evidence to convict is tantamount to giving permission to every pervert in the country to molest at will.
Exactly. I think it's pretty much impossible to convict many of these people (or indeed to even convict on charges like murder) as people don't seem to have a grasp of what Reasonable Doubt might be. I can't even imagine what kind of case you have to construct to get a conviction nowadays - videotapes, dna, doing it on the Boston Common in front of a marching band? Michael Jackson has publicly admitted that he sleeps with unrelated young boys in the same bed. That one FACT, in and of itself, should be enough to get him convicted of something. What do people think he's doing in bed with these boys? Is this "okay"? He has to be stopped. Anyone with a moral sense and sense of responsibility would have found him guilty simply because he needs to be stopped.
If we cannot find the most obvious, flagrant, admitted child molester on the face of the planet, guilty, then what is the point of having these laws at all?
Moreover, pedophiles like Jackson deliberately seek out children from exactly the kind of background the victim in this case represented - dysfunctional, chaotic, maybe the family are grifter, they're unappealing. That's EXACTLY what pedophiles look for. It gives them a child that is vulnerable and needy because of their background and then if they are accused of pedophilia they can simply say, "well look at this kid's background, obviously he's crazy, lying, promiscuous, - whatever". They pick these kinds of families.
Most children don't have a prior track record of lies in legal cases.
This case was just too dirty to sort through. Since the mother was there and an active player in the relationship and proximity of the child to MJ... She's relevant. And if she'd shown to make things up and get her kid to play along, the case has to be thrown out.
This whole trial is a circus side show.