Created: Wednesday, 09 March 2005
The now 14 year old brother of the accuser who says he saw Michael Jackson molest his brother has been altering many of the key points and major accusations in his testimony. He accuser told prosecutors that Mr. Jackson showed him and his brother a certain adult magazine, but today, Mr. Jackson’s attorney, Thomas Mesereau, pointed out that the magazine was dated months after the boy and his family had left Neverland permanently. After a lengthy line of questioning, the boy conceded that the magazine used as evidence in the case wasn’t actually the one Jackson showed him.
Excerpt from the Accuser’s Brother’s Testimony Regarding the ‘Adult’ Magazine Presented as Evidence by the Prosecution (March 8, 2005):
MESEREAU: Before you testified yesterday you looked at that photograph with Prosecutor Sneddon, correct?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: Yes.
MESEREAU: You told Prosecutor Sneddon that those are the magazines you had seen at Neverland, right?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: Yes.
MESEREAU: You told Prosecutor Sneddon that Michael Jackson had showed you those magazines, right?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: Yes.
MESEREAU: Michael Jackson never showed you that magazine, “Barely Legal,” did he?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: What?
MESEREAU: Michael Jackson never showed you that magazine, “Barely Legal,” did he?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: He did show us.
MESEREAU: He did?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: Yes.
MESEREAU: Well, Star, did you look at the date of the magazine? It’s August of 2003, is it not?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: Well, I never said that was exactly that one.
MESEREAU: Well, your family had left Neverland many months before, never to return, correct?
ACCUSER’S BROTHER: That — I’m telling you that that wasn’t exactly the one he showed us.
MESEREAU: That’s not what you said yesterday, and it’s not what you said today, right?
(End of Excerpt)
Mr. Mesereau also asked the boy about the many discrepancies in his descriptions of how Mr. Jackson allegedly molested his brother. Following an extensive line of questioning and vague non-conclusive answers, the boy responded, “I don’t know exactly what I said.” The boy also admitted, earlier in his testimony today, that he lied during a deposition for his mother’s civil lawsuit against JC Penney. In that case, he had sworn, under oath, that his mother and father never fought and that his father never hit him. His story now affirms both accusations.
Testimony also included ironic statements from the boy where he states that his mother taught him never to lie and that ‘lying is a sin.’
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