Woman says Michael Jackson is innocent

[Trauma-san]

Woman says Michael Jackson is innocent, wants the world to know truth.

alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2002-02-09 15:55:27 PST


A California woman wants to put an end to the unsubstantiated allegations,rumors, innuendoes, and speculations of child abuse and child molestation surrounding entertainer Michael Jackson, ever since law enforcement officials searched his Neverland Valley Ranch in Southern California in mid-August of 1993.

Michael Jackson was put under intense scrutiny that August, after media reports of Jackson's home being raided by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. Although the police kept quiet concerning the reason for the search, tabloid and mainstream media converged on Southern California on a relentless quest to find out any information they could about the investigation.

Michelle Flowers says that she wants everyone to know that Jackson is not a criminal. "I hope to put to rest, once and for all, the horrible allegations that have hurt his reputation and his heart," Flowers said. "It is important for the world to know that Michael Jackson is innocent. Michael Jackson is not a child abuser or child molester. He is not a rapist nor is he gay."

Flowers filed an action with a California Superior Court under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, asking for a restraining order against Jackson on October 21, 1991.

According to documents filed with the court, Flowers alleged that she met Jackson in Los Angeles County during the fall of 1982 when Jackson was in one of his disguises. She also alleged sexual misconduct by Jackson against her, including at a New Year's Eve party during the same year.

Flowers admits she made a typographical error on a legal document, and then a mistake at a hearing on July 16, 1993, which she said, led to the criminal investigation of Jackson.

"I mistakenly checked a box on a court document that inferred that Michael had
abused my child," Flowers said. "And then at a court hearing on July 16, 1993,
I made a mistake by agreeing to consolidate the Uniform Parentage Act case with
the Domestic Violence Prevention Act case."

"It was never my intention to disrespect Michael Jackson or the Courts,"
Flowers said. "I didn't realize the ramifications and the inferences that would
be drawn."

"The day of that court hearing, the Honorable Judge A.Girolami asked me in
court and then in his Honor chambers, if I wanted to consolidate the cases. I
said yes even though he told me that somewhere down the line Jackson could sue
me in a civil suit, for malicious prosecution," Flowers said. "I said yes
without realizing the repercussions that would follow under the Domestic
Violence Prevention Act."

She said once the court gained jurisdiction over Jackson, ordered the cases
consolidated and ordered Jackson to appear in court, "the legal procedures were
no longer in my control," Flowers said. "I didn't realize combining the cases
into one would lead to the criminal investigation, searches, and subsequent
blackmail/extortion attempts on Jackson."

She believes that when law enforcement officials searched Jackson's ranch under
the D.V.P.A., they made children and/or parents privy to their investigation,
opening up the opportunity for false allegations to be leveled against Jackson.
"I understand the concern of law enforcement for the safety of individuals,"
Flowers said. "But I also believe that they (police) acted over-zealously and
caused a miscarriage of justice."

"Even though police officials asked the media not to speculate on the nature of
their investigation, there were people in the media and elsewhere obviously
working over-time in an effort to strip Michael Jackson of his dignity and his
privacy," Flowers said. "To me their (police) statements to the media just
allowed for rumors, speculation and innuendoes to run rampant, opening the door
for even the woodwork to come out of the woodwork, to say anything negative
about Michael Jackson."

"People were jumping on a bandwagon that wasn't rolling anywhere," Flowers
said. "I definitely wasn't going to allow my allegations, myself or my child
to be used as pawn's for other people's agendas. Any sexual allegations that
were leveled by other people against Michael after 1991 were complete
fabricated lies, based on a typo."

"Michael Jackson was not arrested, he was not charged with any crime, nor was
he convicted of any crime and yet," Flowers said. "The negative innuendoes and
the like, remain, repeatedly damaging his career and allowing for generation
after generation to be subjected to labeling Michael without justification."

She said that it is unfortunate that society allows itself to form opinions
based on tabloid stories that filtrate into the mainstream media, an outlet she
said, that is heavily relied on for factual information.

"Too many people want to believe that Michael is guilty because he resolved
that heavily hyped media civil suit," Flowers said. "But what people don't
realize is that Michael was forced to decide what was more important to him,
his privacy or his career. It's obvious to me, he chose to protect not only
his privacy, but the privacy of others as well."

Flowers said that that civil case had absolutely nothing to do with the
criminal case as everyone had been led to believe. "I honestly believe that law
enforcement officials wanted to use his (Jackson) answers in (that) civil case
to obtain answers regarding my Domestic Violence Prevention Act case against
Michael," Flowers said. "Under the law at that time, Michael would have had to
violate an existing order of the court to even be questioned, let alone
arrested."

"Michael Jackson is innocent of all and any allegations of child abuse and/or
child molestation," Flowers said. "I made a mistake that has had harsh
repercussions on Michael's life, that I never intended. Michael is a genuine
humble person and a true humanitarian. He didn't deserve to have his integrity
attacked by the tabloids or the mainstream media."

"If either of the District Attorneys in Santa Barbara or Los Angeles Counties
thought that I would come and give evidence to the grand juries to crucify
Michael, they thought wrong. I wanted answers in my court case, but not at the
sake of wrongfully depriving Michael Jackson of his freedom."

[Trauma-san]

By the way, if anyone wants to know the whole story about what went down, check out this link, it goes to a GQ article from 1994 about how michael was framed.  

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/8598/gq.html

[LyRiCaL_G]

kool aprreciate the news man but anythin goin down on the music side of things for jacko?

[Sikotic™]

Man that's messed up. No one opened a word to say anything or correct the mistake.

[Trauma-san]

I know man, typical media coverage. To cover this story would be to admit that all the crap they've said about him in the past 10 years was false.  

It gets worse... read the link I gave above (it's a Lonnnnnng read), it's horrible what people do to him.

[Dogg_Pound_Gangsta]

good to hear.  now people can leave him tha fuck alone.

[Trauma-san]

Ha, it'll never happen.  He's too different from what our screwed-up society has become.  If you're not an alcoholic today, you get abused, lol.