A Money-Loving Mother and a Lying Accuser: Jackson

In 2001, an article was published in the Mid Valley newspaper about the family of the then-current accuser, Shaki. The article was an emotional and sad story that described the urgent need of Shaki’s mother for money to cover her son’s medical treatment expenses. It explained how her son’s cancer illness caused heavy damage to the family. In the article, the mother asked people for financial help. “Each chemotherapy injection costs more than twelve thousand dollars.” … And now the editor of that newspaper has new things to say about Shaki’s mother: “She’s like a fox. She was looking for money. My readers were exploited. My employees were exploited. This is disgusting.”

In 2001, Shaki’s mother had told the newspaper editor that her son needed all kinds of medication and that they couldn’t afford the costs. The editor agreed to help her by publishing a moving article about them to encourage people to donate financially. The editor assigned the task of writing this story to his reporter. The reporter was so moved by hearing about the woman’s problems that, on Thanksgiving, he arranged a dinner for her family. But in response to this kindness, Shaki’s mother only said, “Thank you, but I would have preferred that you give me the money.”

Nine days before the article was published, Shaki’s mother opened an account in one of the Washington banks under her own name. The bank’s address and the mother’s bank account number were printed in the newspaper along with the article. Over the three weeks after the article was published, $965 was deposited into the woman’s account, and she withdrew $750 from her account without any delay.

The editor continues: “But that wasn’t enough for her. She wanted another story. Because she hadn’t taken enough money from the first story. And I told her I could easily get angry and be bad-tempered, and I wasn’t willing to publish another story about her son. But the woman replied, ‘Alright, I’ll try somewhere else.’ And then it turned out that her sick son was hospitalized for free at a clinic in Los Angeles, and all expenses were paid by insurance.”

Last year, when Michael Jackson was prosecuted on charges of sexually abusing a young boy by Tom Sneddon, the district attorney of Santa Barbara, the newspaper editor thought that maybe this mother and son were the heroes of his story. The editor sent a copy of that article to Mark Geragos, Michael Jackson’s attorney. He explains the reason for his action: “Maybe Michael Jackson is telling the truth—that he didn’t do it. Or maybe I want to stop a fox.” Recently, Michael Jackson’s defense team contacted the editor and the writer of that article.

Source: Mid Valley