According to the Associated Press, under cross-examination from Jackson's attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr., the teenage accuser stated that he told D.A. Sneddon that he "told Dean Alpert he [Jackson] didn't do anything to me," the boy said. "I told him twice."
Mesereau later returned to questioning the boy about the conversation with the dean and the boy admitted "I don't remember too good," when he was asked about the meeting with the school official.
"You don't remember too good (saying) Mr. Jackson had never touched you sexually?" Mesereau asked.
"Well, I'm pretty sure it happened because he was dean of the school," the boy answered.
"Mr. Alpert looked you in the eye and asked you if Michael Jackson did anything to you, didn't he?" Mesereau challenged.
"I told him that Michael didn't do anything to me," the boy responded.
"And the second time you said, 'No, he did not touch me in any sexually inappropriate way,'" Mesereau said.
"I don't know," said the teenage accuser, who last week testified in detail about being abused by Jackson.
Mesereau asked the boy when the conversation with the dean occurred.
"I believe it was after I came back from Neverland," the boy responded.
"He said, 'Look at me, look at me ... I can't help you unless you tell me the truth � did any of this happen?'" Mesereau said, quoting the dean.
The boy acknowledged the question.
"And your response was nothing happened," Mesereau asked.
"Yes," the boy answered.
Mesereau then reportedly went further on the offensive to put doubt into the mind of the jury about the boy's credibility. Mesereau quoted from a previous interview with the boy when he was asked if the abuse occurred before the boy made a rebuttal video to the controversial documentary that many believe sparked the current case against Jackson. The attorney read the boy's answer "I think so", when asked if the abuse occurred before the filming of the video.
Jackson's attorney asked the boy if anyone had told him to change his story about when the abuse took place.
"No one's ever told me that," the boy responded.
"Then why does your story change?" Mesereau asked.
The teenager replied that the molestation occurred after the video was made. The prosecution's case revolve around the theory that Jackson attempted to hold the accuser's family captive at Neverland Ranch until they made a rebuttal video countering a controversial documentary that aired on February 6, 2003, which included the accuser holding hands with Jackson and in which Jackson admitted sharing his bed with children, an act Jackson claimed was innocent and non-sexual. The prosecutors allege that the abuse took place between February 20th and March 12, 2003, while Jackson was attempting to get the boy and his family to film the rebuttal video.
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