Second Day of Testimony for Mother of Accuser

The mother of Michael Jackson’s accuser told a strange and rambling story of her and her family’s virtual imprisonment by Jackson’s associates and being warned that “killers" were after them. The accuser’s mother stated that Jackson’s people claimed the family needed to be protected from killers. She detailed an extraordinarily active period while the family was allegedly held in captivity. She stated that she and her children were taken to various public offices to obtain birth certificates, passports and visas. She also revealed that the family was taken shopping for clothes, went to the Laugh factory comedy club in Hollywood, to a hotel and then ultimately back to Neverland, where she claims she was ordered to “just stand in the room”. To explain why during the entire period she never tried to call police, “Who could possibly believe this?” she replied. But, surprisingly, she also stated that she was constantly trying to reach out to people like comedian Louise Palanker for help by dropping clues during phone calls. The woman said that all the activities from Fed. 21 to March 10, 2003, were dictated by Jackson’s men, who she said monitored her calls, stood outside her window or her hotel door and would not let her leave their sight. "All along this period, I'm trying to reach people to help me because it's evolving into more and more escalation," she said. The prosecution alleged that her son was molested during February and March 2003. She said at one point they returned to Neverland while Jackson was there, and while her children spent the entire time with Jackson, she stayed in a guest house and rarely went outside. However, the mother never once mentioned her son being molested and talked mostly about being frightened of Mr. Jackson’s associates. The mother claimed that she did not learn of any molestation allegations until she was informed by law enforcement authorities, who had been contacted by a psychologist to whom her children had been referred to by a lawyer. During the alleged time of captivity, the woman and her children made a video for Jackson in which they praise him. The accuser’s mother said she was given a script to follow and was instructed to repeatedly say, “That he is a wonderful father…to my children.” When asked by the prosecutor if she believed the things she said in the video, she said, “I was confused, I was sad, so basically I was acting.” Although the accuser’s mother was reportedly more controlled Thursday than her emotional testimony Wednesday, at an odd point during Thursday's proceedings, she burst into tears when prosecutors showed her four passports belonging to her and her children, which she said she had been forced to obtain for a trip to Brazil. “Finally!” the woman exclaimed as prosecutor Frank Zonen produced the passports that she said were never given to her. She looked upward, sighed and began to cry. The woman explained that she had refused to go to Brazil unless the children got to visit their grandparents first, but that at home, the boy was “like an eruptive volcano." The mother described the boy "yelling at me at the top of his lungs that Michael loves him and that he has to go back." By the end of Zonen’s two-day questioning, the mother claimed she never asked for money from Jackson, and had no plan to sue him in the future. The defense cross-examination of the mother is expected to begin Friday. Source: AP/MJJForum/eMJey