Prosecutors can't choose the victims. People come in, having been the victim of a crime, and MJ chooses dysfunctional familes carefully..
I once convicted a man of the sexual assault (forcible sodomy) of a prostitute. It can be done, but you have to prepare your case extremely well.
This guy's MO was to sexually asssault and forcibly sodomize women, and he focused on transients, the homeless, and young hitchhikers running away from home. He got away with it for years because the vitcims he chose were unlikely to report it, and if they did, they were unlikely to be believed.
He was a good-looking man, successful in his field, intelligent, well-spoken and well-dressed. He thought he was going to get away with it yet again. His defense attorney smirked at me and said I was a fool if I thought anyonw would believe a heroin-addicted prostitute.
I nailed the miscreant in a full-blown jury trial and put him away for 27 years. The victim, a misguided young lady who fallen into a very hard life after leaving home, was murdered a few months later by a heroin dealer. I made it a point to travel 600 miles to her funeral in her hometown. I wanted her grieving widowed mother to know that I though her daughter had done a very couraegous and redeeming thing in coming forward and subjecting herself to the additional pain and humiliation of a public trial. Because she had done this, she helped put a predator away who would have assuredly continued to violently assault other women.
The fact that MJ chose kids from dysfunctional families is very telling. It's exactly how predators work. They go after those who appear vulnerable, whether you're someone walking down a street after dark, with your head down, looking fearful...and you're mugged...to children who aren't getting the nurturing they need at home from loving parents. MJ's behavior is textbook pedophile, a dead giveaway, and he'll be at it again within a month. On his next tour, he'll take a few poor kids under his wing as he trips through Europe and South America. They'll pay off the families, and nobody will say a word.