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 SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - Under aggressive cross-examination, the teenage boy who says Michael Jackson molested him acknowledged Monday that the singer "was like a father to me," and that he told a middle school administrator that the pop star "didn't do anything to me."
Striking at the heart of the prosecution's allegations of child molestation and conspiracy, defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. confronted the now-15-year-old boy with a video tribute by the boy and his family in which they credited Jackson with changing their lives and helping to cure the boy of cancer.
The video had already been shown in the trial twice. This time, Mesereau stopped it repeatedly to ask if the boy and his family were lying. In most instances, the boy said they were speaking the truth.
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