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  • How Michael Jackson Got Off

    06/13/2005 5:08:17 PM PDT · by Jess Kitting · 38 replies · 1,998+ views
    www.slate.com ^ | June 13, 2005 | Emily Bazelon
    Since the early 1990s, Santa Barbara, Calif., cops and prosecutors have viewed Michael Jackson not as Peter Pan, but as the wolf in "Little Red Riding Hood" (only this time he likes boys). Two kids have come forward before to accuse Jackson of molesting them, taken multimillion-dollar settlements from the star, and then refused to cooperate. Now the state has blown its chances of nailing him on charges of molesting a third boy, who said that two years ago, when he was 13, Jackson fondled him four or five times. Maybe the jury acquitted Jackson on all counts because the...