[wimpycat]

Yeah, the defense strategy is going to be that the boy's mother was a woman scorned, after Jackson threatened to cut off the money, according to a Fox News article. It will be interesting to hear the defense's reason for wanting to end financial aid to the family. They could say that Jackson wanted to help pay the boy's medical bills, but that the mother kept wanting more and more, and he was afraid that if he didn't give it to her, that she would make a false accusation about him.

Of course, the boy can just as easily say that Michael Jackson threatened to cut off money to his family if the boy didn't do what he wanted. The boy could say that Jackson asked him who was going to pay his medical bills if the boy talked? Where were he and his family going to live if Jackson didn't take care of them? The boy might die if Michael wasn't there to take care of them. (Seeing as how the boy in 1993 said that Michael would start crying whenever he didn't want to go along with something Michael wanted to do, this way of guilting this new boy into cooperation isn't implausible.)

[Luis Gonzalez]

"It will be interesting to hear the defense's reason for wanting to end financial aid to the family. They could say that Jackson wanted to help pay the boy's medical bills, but that the mother kept wanting more and more, and he was afraid that if he didn't give it to her, that she would make a false accusation about him."

According to FOX, Jackson did pay his medical bills.