In an attempt to fix the damage done by the revelation made Monday by defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. that the accuser had told the dean of his school, Jeffrey Alpert, that nothing had ever happened between Jackson and himself, the accuser explained that he was afraid of being teased.
The accuser claimed that following the documentary "Living with Michael Jackson" featuring the then 13-year-old boy holding hands with Jackson, he was ridiculed in school which caused him to be involved in alot of fights.
Due to the fights, the boy was called into the dean's office and claimed nothing had ever happened in an attempt to stop the ridicule. "I didn't want them to think it happened" he explained.
The redirect by District Attorney Thomas Sneddon came after Thomas Mesereau Jr. had finished his cross examination, questioning whether the accuser knew of a possible profit if he filed a lawsuit against Jackson, something the boy denied.
When asked why none of the family members ever alerted authorities during their alleged captivity, the accuser offered no other explanation than "they hardly ever let us be apart. They wanted to keep us together," and that he "was actually very happy to be at Neverland the whole time."
"I was having a lot of fun," he said. "My mother was the one that was worried. I didn't realize 'til the last time that I didn't want to be there."
Sneddon's redirect ended with the question of what the accuser thinks of Jackson now, to which the accuser replied "I don't really like him anymore. I don' really think he's deserving of the respect I was giving him as the coolest guy in the world."
Afterwards, a series of law enforcement witnesses were called by the prosecution.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Robel showed items seized during the first of two searches of Jackson's Neverland Ranch, including an adult magazine called "Teenage", a black & white image of a nude woman, and a book by photographer Bruce Weber called "The Chop Suey Club."
Robel said he found the items in a closed box at the foot of Jackson's bed.
However, defense attorney Robert Sanger attacked the relevance of the items, stating that no witnesses claimed to have seen the items, and that none of the items are illegal to possess, and both were confirmed by Robel.
When asked more specifically about the items, Robel acknowledged that he did not know that the book "Chop Suey Club" was sent to Jackson unsolicited by Weber, and that it contained a photo of Jackson friend Elizabeth Taylor.
Terry Flaa, a former sheriff's investigator testified that he made the decision not to investigate two child welfare complaints by Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred and psychologist Carole Lieberman due to an interview by Los Angeles County's children services authorities, in which the boy and his family all said nothing had happened.
The last witness of the day was that of sheriff's Lt. Jeff Klapackis who said he ordered the Jackson investigation re-opened after talking to the family's attorney Larry Feldman and psychologist Stan Katz.
Prosecution claims that the molestation allegations appeared during the boy's interviews with Katz.
Source: AP/MJJF/eMJey