Jackson Accuser: “Michael Did Nothing To Me”

The young accuser acknowledged under cross-examination Monday that he told an administrator at his school that the pop star "didn't do anything to me." The teenager was asked about conversations he had with Jeffrey Alpert, the dean at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles, where the boy had a history of acting up in class. "I told Dean Alpert he didn't do anything to me," the boy said under questioning by Mr. Jackson’s attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. "I told him twice." Mesereau, during his cross-examination of the boy, quoted Alpert as telling the youngster: "Look at me, look at me. ... I can't help you unless you tell me the truth - did any of this happen?" When asked when the conversation occurred, the boy said: "I believe it was after I came back from Neverland." Mesereau also attacked the boy’s behavior in school. Mesereau confronted the teenager with school records that showed that nine teachers had complained about the boy's disruptive behavior, events that the boy acknowledged. Of one teacher, he said, "I felt as if he didn't deserve respect as a teacher. I didn't respect him as a person." The boy also admitted that he spent time in detention and "would get into fights sometimes at school." The young accuser also acknowledged that during the time he and his family were supposedly held hostage at Neverland, he never personally felt threatened. In the weeks after Bashir documentary aired, when the family was staying at Neverland, the boy said he did not want to leave "because I was having lots of fun." The boy testified that the family twice left Neverland and returned, before leaving the ranch for the final time in March 2003. Mesereau, with some sarcasm, referred to the three departures as three "escapes," and he got the boy to admit that no one in the family ever contacted police after any of them. Cross examination continues today. Source: AP News/CNN/MJJForum/eMJey