micheal jackson didn't give away millions of bucks to some kid just because he liked him....
there's a reason...
The article says “on advice of counsel” he copped a plea rather than face 41 years if he’d gone to trial and been convicted. The prosecutors had DNA evidence that there had been sex between them; its ‘consent’ was ‘he said, she said.’ Would you have risked 41 years vs. X months, even if you know you were innocent of the kidnap/rape charges?
Once he accepted that plea, the school system became vulnerable and settled with Gibson who, one would assume, will soon be doing her own time behind bars.