As DS correctly mentioned above since when is being weird a criminal offence? if that was the case I should go on the Lam and fly to a place with no extradition treaty before the normality police catch up with me.
Also paraphrasing what DS mentioned. If you were a parent and your child was assualted sexually by a person.. would you be happy to get a sum of money to keep quiet about it? or would you , as a caring protective parent, want the offender to burn in hell for all eternity with red hot pokers up his derrier but only after being incarcerated for many years in a state prision with a 6 foot 5 serial sodomist called "Bubba"?
most parents would want the latter (or some variation thereof) the fact that they were quite happy to take a sizable sum of cash instead of their day (week, month , year) in court is a little odd don't you think? Any normal parent would tell him to "stuff the money where the moon don't walk!"
if they honestly believed their children were sexually abused yet were happy to take monetary payment for that abuse then what they're saying is "sure you had sex with my child but it's ok as you've paid me for the privaledge!" there's a word for that and it's one of the oldest professions in the book apparently.
of course, if like me and DS you suspect Perhaps they were just out to make a fast buck (with many zeroes at the end) then perhaps you see why I have little faith in that being an assumption of guilt on MJ's case.
I didn't particularly like THE MAN, liked THE MUSIC and granted he was a class A fruitcake with a double helping of nuts. And regardless of public opinion he was still found innocent in a court of law.
as always I must add my little
I.M.H.O. clause... your milage may vary.
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