Explanation of the 30th session

In her second appearance on the witness stand, the complainant’s mother, amid tears and gestures of her fingers that repeatedly pointed toward Michael Jackson, explained how she had been held in Neverland for two months by Jackson’s employees who threatened her.

She said how she learned about the incident of Michael Jackson giving alcohol to her 13-year-old son. She described that one night her son came to her private home in Neverland and told her, “Jackson is afraid that the drink of Christ [meaning wine] will be identified in his urine.”

The next day, when they went to the hospital for a routine checkup, she looks at her son’s urine sample inside a container. According to her, after returning from the bathroom she notices that the container is completely empty. The test result that was carried out on them at the hospital was not discussed in court.

After the family escapes from Neverland, after they hire a lawyer, and after she and all three of her children are interviewed by a psychologist, a police officer tells her that her son has been sexually abused.

Those present in court had reactions of disbelief to the witness’s claims.

When she was asked why she kept coming and going there in February and March 2003, contrary to the claim that she had been imprisoned in Neverland, she replied, “Whenever I wanted to escape, important things would happen.”

During this time, she did not tell the police anything about her imprisonment in Neverland because, according to her own words, “I was taking instructions from the Jackson team.”

She said that, due to the intensity of her fear of killers whose identities she did not know, she had taken refuge in her private home in Neverland, and her sons—whom she rarely met—slept in Jackson’s room.

She said she tried to give others clues about this by phone, but her calls were being monitored.

“I was secretly giving clues, hoping that one day the knot of this riddle would be solved.”

But she was unable to provide examples of those clues.

The complainant’s mother admitted that she had praised Jackson in a video, that she had been taken outside Neverland for the purpose of having her legs waxed and for buying clothes together with her children, and that she had left her children alone in Neverland twice and then left. However, she said it was only because Jackson’s employees had threatened her that they would harm her boyfriend (her current husband) and her elderly parents.

“I was confused, but finally I understood who the bad guys were.”

Based on the complainant’s mother’s testimony, Jackson’s employees told her that, perhaps to protect her life and her family, it might be necessary to send them to Brazil.

In today’s hearing, she confirmed the consent forms she had given to Jackson’s employees so that they could remove her children from school and/or from her apartment.

Eventually, she asks her boyfriend and her mother and father for help, and her father—pretending to be sick—pleads with Jackson’s staff to return her grandchildren to their home on March 11, 2003 for two days so he can visit them. The next day, the complainant’s mother, in a phone call with Jackson’s maid in Neverland, tells her that they will never return.

For several weeks after this incident, Jackson’s employees Johnnie, Frank, and Vinnie were monitoring all the movements of this family.

The complainant’s mother’s answer to the prosecutor’s question—whether after the trial she intended to file a complaint against Michael Jackson—was no.

The questioning of the complainant’s mother was postponed until the next day’s session.

Source: Court TV / AP / Yahoo news