^^ Isn't that an odd reaction to someone's death who allegedly molested your nephew? This family never reacted to anything in a way a normal family would who had a molested kid. Yet, hardly anyone of the media wanted to see these red flags.
- Instead of going right to the authorities Evan took Jordan to a psyhologist whose obligation is to report such cases to authorities, no matter what he thinks of the allegations. This way Evan was covered from possible counter-lawsuits for false accusations. (For the record, the psychologist who reported the allegation, Dr. Mathis Abrams, said in 2003 that he could never find out for sure whether Jordan really was molested or he was trained, because they only took him to his office on that one occasion. Just to make him report the case.)
If your kid was molested, would your first reaction be to go to the police and report it, or would it be some kind of legal trickery?
- Instead of going to authorities right away, first they tried to extort money out of Michael. In August they demanded he would pay them 20 million dollars or else they will accuse him of child molestation. Right from Ray Chandler's book:
Is that what you do when your kid was molested?
- Instead of pushing for a criminal trial they pushed for a civil trial (ie. money!) and tried to hinder the criminal trial. Their goal was to make the civil trial precede the criminal one. Again from Ray Chandler's book:
Is that what you do when your kid was molested?
- And the settlement. All the media questioned Michael's motives to settle, but none of them questioned the Chandlers' motives to settle. If your kid gets molested do you want money or do you want justice and do you want the molester to get locked up in jail so that he wouldn't harm any more kids?
- In 1996 Evan filed yet another lawsuit against Michael wanting more money. This time he sued for 60 million dollars accusing Michael of violating the settlement in the Diane Sawyer interview. Evan also sued Lisa Marie, Sawyer, ABC and everybody in sight. Here is that lawsuit:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070916...com/archive/legaldocs/newsmakers/jackson.html
Eventually the lawsuit got thrown out by the court, however it's worth reading, especially this part, where Evan demands a record deal so that he can release a record with songs about the alleged molestation of his son:
WHAT PARENT OF A TRULY MOLESTED CHILD DOES THIS?
- Then Jordan's and Ray's reluctance to testify in 2005. Yet, Ray had no problem with shooting his mouth in the media. But when it came to repeating his claims in court and under oath, he was running scared.
How come none of this has ever raised a red flag for most of the media?