Michael Jackson was ‘a rapist who abused children with impunity’, says the prosecutor who tried the King of Pop.
The California prosecutor, who tried Michael Jackson for abusing a child who had cancer, has maintained that the King Of Pop was a child abuser.
Santa Barbara’s former chief deputy district attorney appears on camera in a new TV show to explain why he feels Jackson should serve twenty years for torturing ex-boyfriend Gavin Arvizo in a 2005 case.
Adamant Ron Zonen, one of Santa Barbara County’s leading prosecutors, is convinced that MJ was the rapist and that Arvizo was telling the truth.
Zonen doubled down on upcoming Channel 4 show The Trial in his assertion that the Thriller star was “a child abuser who could abuse children with impunity.”
In court, Jackson was acquitted of 14 charges related to harassing Arvizo, but Zonen expressed his belief that the singer harassed him before 2003, which was not included in the list of charges.
The TV interview also teases that former friends Wade Robson and James Safechuck have spoken about their abuse claims, rather than waiting until 2019, Jackson’s fate may have been different.
The veteran attorney said Jackson’s appeal as a global entertainer and philanthropist and star quality allowed him to pull the wool over the judge’s eyes.
Channel 4 fans will see these incredibly powerful comments on Wednesday and Thursday (Feb 11 and 12) in longer episodes of The Trial.
Zonen believes that the father of three, who died in 2009, had the power to use judges and even his followers to believe that he is innocent of crimes.
Steadfast Zonen is still shocked that MJ avoided any punishment after he went public about sleeping with children on camera to a number of media outlets including the ITV doc Living With Michael Jackson.
The case has already made waves because it revealed never-before-seen tapes of Jackson discussing his love for children.
Zonen admitted: “From the prosecutor’s point of view, we knew we were dealing with someone who abuses children and he is someone who likes to abuse children with impunity.”
One of the jurors in the case, who appeared on camera, Raymond Hultman supported Zonen: “I really felt that Michael Jackson was a child abuser.”
Safehuck and Robson made international headlines when they described long-term sexual abuse by MJ in the Leaving Neverland docu-series.
If they had spoken in the court of Santa Maria, the result would have changed.
Instead, both denied wrongdoing in Arvizo’s case. Zonen has no ill feelings toward Robson and Safechuck.
“I understand. I’ve handled a number of child molestation cases over the years. It’s a difficult thing for children to come forward and talk openly about being a victim of sex crimes. And they reveal when they do, and there’s nothing we can do to speed up that process alone.”
Jackson bragged about sharing beds with children to Bashir on camera. Zonen saw that admission as important evidence of guilt.
“That was a good testimony for us to admit that he sleeps with children,
“The way Bashir reacted, I thought how a reasonable person would react. How do you justify having children in your bed? What other old man do you know anywhere in the world who does that without molesting? Who would allow your children to sleep with him as an adult? And the answer is no.
“Jackson’s public persona was someone who loved children, and he was trying to convince people that he was a modern Peter Pan. But there is no such thing as Peter Pan.
“He always did it looking for a child that he would eventually put in his bed.
In this program, the lawyer of the Jackson family, Brian Oxman, denied what Zonen was accused of and insisted that their documents prove that the singer is innocent and is part of the “shaking”.
The TV series featured never-before-seen tapes of Jackson expressing his love and care for Arvizo.
Jackson was acquitted of all 14 charges, including four counts of child molestation, four counts of intoxicating a child for the purpose of molestation, attempted child molestation, and conspiracy to hold the boy and his family at Neverland Ranch. He was also charged with giving away the boy, now 15 years old, and conspiring to kidnap him and his family.”
The next episode of the trial airs on Channel 4 in the UK on Wednesday 11 February at 9pm.
