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Michael Jackson on Capitol Hill to Discuss AIDS Deborah Tate Capitol Hill Pop star Michael Jackson is in Washington to discuss his commitment to combating AIDS in Africa. He met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss the fight against AIDS. He told lawmakers he plans a visit to Africa later this year. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, a Texas Democrat, spoke to reporters, with Jackson standing at her side. "Mr. Jackson's voice will be able to be utilized in a campaign of awareness dealing with how to prevent HIV/AIDS, a voice to go forward and teach the various aspects...

Parnell Guilty Of Attempting To Buy A Child POSTED: 2:59 PM PST February 9, 2004 UPDATED: 6:33 PM PST February 9, 2004 OAKLAND, Calif. -- Kenneth Parnell, infamous for the 1972 kidnapping of Steven Stayner, was convicted Monday of trying to buy a child last year in what a prosecutor described as the would-be "last hurrah" of a long criminal career. Parnell, 72, was arrested in January 2003 on charges of trying to persuade a woman to get him a young boy for $500. A jury deliberated for less than two hours Monday before finding Parnell guilty. Prosecutor Tim Wellman...

BERLIN, Nov 21 (AFP) - Michael Jackson's mother hinted at a racist motive behind the pop icon's arrest on multiple child molestation charges, a German magazine Friday quoted her as telling it. According to the online edition of Bunte magazine, Catherine Jackson told it that there were two interpretations of the law in the United States -- "one for whites and one for blacks." She suggested he had been tricked. "I wonder whether somebody could have set a trap for him and hidden false evidence in his house." But she said he was doing fine and was optimistic. "He's not...

MIDI - BILLIE JEAN There are people who say I'm weird...that I should be fearedBut now it's time that the record's cleared...the record's clearedIt ain't me...there's no way...it ain't meLet's get this record clearedIt ain't me...there's no way...it ain't me Against me there's awful charges made...the DA okayedThey say over the line I have strayedBut I'm not the one...it ain't me...never me...not the one I know there's confusion...because of a common nameThe police officers haven't done their jobMy lawyer's gonna solve it and make it all go away So I think that it's about time to be calling off...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charges against Michael Jackson won't be derailed by a settlement, a prosecutor says, and the reason is a law passed in response to the last time the pop singer was accused of molestation, when the accuser refused to testify. "It is an irony," Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon said in an interview with The Associated Press. "The history of the law is that the L.A. district attorney's office carried the legislation as a direct result of the civil settlement in the first investigation." Sneddon baffled legal experts when he seemed to imply in a nationally...

One of 16 people who tried to enter the United States by crossing the Rio Grande near Fabens on Sept. 30 turned out to be a child molester, Border Patrol officials said. Carlos Mendoza-Lopez, 27, from Guerrero, Mexico, first gave agents a false name, but a database using fingerprints revealed he had been convicted of fondling a child and had been previously deported. He was booked into the county jail, and the 15 others in the group were returned to Mexico.

Updated June 3, 2003 11:48 PM Ex-coach charged with indecencyBy CRAIG KAPITANEagle Staff Writer A former high school coach in Livingston was arrested Tuesday for allegedly molesting two of his male students during weekend trips to Bryan. Shannon “Doc” Wheat, 39, admitted to several school officials — as well as the parents of both alleged victims — that the accusations were true, court documents state. He had been taking advantage of male students for more than a year, he is reported to have told school officials. Wheat resigned from the school district in March, after a third boy told authorities...

Mitchell's father 83, described himself as a voyeur and author of two volumes about his personal theology that include explicit sexual content, acknowledged showing his son pictures of gentalia at the age of seven or eight. The father said he believes that his erotic literature contributed to an after school episode of indecent exposure as a teenager. A few weeks in juvenille detension, bouts with alcohol and drugs--including an LSD trip that put him in the hospital--were other contributing factors, the elder Mitchell said. He added that he suspected that Mitchell was abused in daycare. Calling himself 'too implusive as...

<p>January 26, 2003 -- The FBI is getting the sealed records of ex-U.N. arms inspector Scott Ritter's Internet kiddie-sex-sting bust with an eye toward slapping him with federal charges, officials said yesterday.</p> <p>A judge last week signed an order requiring cops and prosecutors to hand over all records and any evidence in the Ritter case to the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) --  A doctor who once headed the Presidential Advisory Council on AIDS and HIV has been accused by state regulators of sexually molesting two patients at his office.</p> <p>Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and gay activist, said he touched one patient inappropriately in August 2000 and crossed a boundary with another patient one month earlier, according to a formal accusation filed by the Medical Board of California.</p>