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Meet The Mother Of Michael Jackson's Accuser

Did you know this is the THIRD time that Janet Ventura Arvizo Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson's accuser has made allegations of sexual abuse? The first was against J.C. Penney security guards, and won her a six figure settlement. Another was an accusation made against her ex-husband. And now Michael Jackson. The accusations against Jackson are the second time she has accused someone of kidnapping (the first was her ex-husband in a bitter divorce dispute). This is either a trend of almost supernaturally bad luck, or there is something very different, and very obvious, going on.



Jackson Accuser's Mother Has A History Of Launching Abuse Lawsuits

The mother of the 12-year-old boy accusing MICHAEL JACKSON of child molestation has launched abuse lawsuits before, according to her former husband.

According to DAVID ARVIZO's lawyer RUSSELL HALPERN, JANET ARVIZO has previously made allegations against her estranged husband and security guards for American supermarket JC PENNEY.

Mr Halpern insists Mrs Arvizo has a "Svengali-like" ability to make her children - including cancer-stricken son GAVIN - back up her stories.

During a civil deposition, Mr Halpern says he saw evidence of her controlling ways when his client presented him with a script Mrs Arvizo had allegedly written out for the kids to memorise before they took the stand.

Halpern says, "She wrote out all their testimony. I actually saw the script. I remember my client showing me, bringing the paperwork to me."

And Halpern says that in 2001, lawyers for store JC Penney paid the family $144,500 (GBP85,000) to settle a suit in which Mrs Arvizo brought against them after a violent confrontation in 1998.

In the suit, Mrs Arvizo claimed the security guards battered her and her two sons when they left the store with goods that had not been paid for. Court records show that Mrs Arvizo also accused the guards of sexual assault.

Mr Arvizo was also accused of abuse against his children and his wife during their divorce battle and decided to plead no contest "to avoid a court fight".

Singer Jackson has yet to be formally charged with the "multiple" counts of child molestation Santa Barbara, California police have been investigating.

http://www.contactmusic.c...endocument




Jackson Accuser's Mom Was in Mental Hospital
Thursday, February 05, 2004
By Roger Friedman


The mother of Michael Jackson’s 12-year-old accuser spent time in a mental hospital in 1998, according to court documents filed by the woman's ex-husband. The court papers are from the mother’s ongoing bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, who filed an affidavit with Los Angeles Superior Court on January 28, 2004.

I’ve seen the papers. In them, the father — a union member who says he’s currently taking part in the supermarket worker strike in Los Angeles — claims that his wife spent time at the Kaiser Permanente Mental Health facility in downtown L.A. in 1998. He does not specify how much time she spent there.

H. Russell Halpern, the father’s lawyer in his custody case, told me yesterday that the statement is true and that insurance records will back it up. Asked how much time the mother spent at Kaiser, he replied: “I don’t know.”

A man who answered the phone at Kaiser last night told me that the average length of stay is seven days. “You can only come in here through a referral from a Kaiser emergency room.”

The father — who was accused by his ex-wife of domestic abuse during their divorce — paints a picture of his ex-wife as an unstable woman who has convinced her children to make up stories in other situations that might benefit them.

The father also claims in his affidavit that his ex-wife coached their kids to lie in her case against J.C. Penney — in which she ultimately won $163,000 in damages.

“She would write questions and answers for the kids,” he writes, “to study and practice with her.”

I am also told by sources involved directly with the parents’ case that depositions exist which could cast an even worse light on the mother. Apparently, the mother and her three children told lawyers in the J.C. Penney lawsuit that they were never abused by the father, contradicting their other statements.

All of this will be used by Jackson’s lawyers to the extent that it can to depict the mother as an opportunist who turned on Jackson when she thought her connection to Neverland and all its amenities was being cut off.

According to court papers, the mother went back into Family Court on March 11, 2003 to have her child support payments increased to $1,499 a month — almost double what she’d been receiving up until then.

The date of the mother’s demand for more money from her ex-husband is interesting in that she filed for emergency help on March 3, 2003. Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon’s charges against Jackson are seven counts of child molestation between Feb. 6 and March 10. The sudden need for more money seems to coincide with the family’s ouster from Neverland after a year-and-a-half of living off Jackson’s largesse.

Michael Manning, the mother’s attorney in her divorce case, did not return calls.

http://www.foxnews.com/st...26,00.html



Jackson Accuser's Mom Made Same Claims In 2001

October 12, 2004

By DAWN HOBBS
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The mother of the boy who has accused Michael Jackson of molestation and false imprisonment made the same allegations against her husband three years ago, according to documents obtained by the News-Press on Monday.

In a Los Angeles Police Department report in November 2001, the mother told police she observed her husband inappropriately touching her daughter when she was 3 or 4 years old: "The victim was emotionally distraught during this interview and could not provide any other pertinent information regarding this incident," the report states.

The father subsequently pleaded no contest to charges of domestic violence and later child cruelty. As part of the plea agreement, false imprisonment charges against him were dropped. No child molestation charges were filed against him. The couple were subsequently divorced.

Mr. Jackson's defense lawyers will likely attempt to use portions of this information to try to discredit the mother when she testifies during Mr. Jackson's child molestation trial, scheduled to begin in January. The defense may try to show that she has a history of making false accusations.

However, prosecutors would likely assert that accusations that preceded her divorce have nothing to do with the charges Mr. Jackson faces and may object to testimony about the mother's past.

Mr. Jackson pleaded not guilty in April to child molestation and conspiracy charges. The prosecution alleges Mr. Jackson and several associates conspired to abduct and falsely imprison the boy and his family while they made a video in support of Mr. Jackson. The singer had just been the focus of a British documentary that tarnished his reputation. A gag order bars attorneys from speaking with the media about the case.

But lead defense lawyer Thomas Mesereau provided a possible preview of his strategy when he questioned the mother, referred to by the court as Jane Doe, during a pretrial hearing last month.

During that hearing Mr. Mesereau asked whether it was correct that she had also accused her ex-husband of child molestation and false imprisonment. But Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville stopped the line of questioning after the objections of Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen.

Ms. Doe offered few details in her testimony that day about Mr. Jackson's alleged conspiracy to abduct and falsely imprison her and her children. She also had difficulty understanding Mr. Mesereau's questions, needing them repeated numerous times, and said the questions were triggering flashbacks.

That day Mr. Zonen said in court that the high-profile case had caused Ms. Doe so many problems that the family has been relocated. The News-Press later learned that the family has been moved several times.

In a declaration dated March 8, 2004, Ms. Doe requested that portions of her divorce file be sealed: "I am concerned that this case will become the circus-like atmosphere that the Michael Jackson case has become and that everything that is said and filed will find its way back to the children. The children have been through enough. The press sometimes blocks entry to our home, preventing us from going in and out. My children have been followed an videotaped without my permission. I do not want it to become worse."

The volatile family relationship finally ended in divorce in April with a restraining order against the father.

In the police documents, the mother details a history of alleged abuse including "head injuries, holding her head under water, making her stand outside naked, and throwing (her) little dog against a wall."

She also alleged that when her ex-husband was released from jail an unknown man outside her apartment threatened "that if she did not shut up, her children would not see her again and she would be killed."

The defense would likely use these accusations against the woman because she also testified last month that one of "Jackson's people" had warned her that her life was in danger and encouraged her to flee to Brazil with her family.

http://www.newspress.com/...rsmom.html
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Reply #1 posted 01/17/05 4:32pm

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Wonder what the org will look like when the trial starts. lol

"Meet the busboy who brought Michael Jackson his lunch today."

"Meet the pretty ladies on the front steps of the courthouse."

"Meet the washroom attendant who handed Michael the soap after court adjourned."
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Reply #2 posted 01/18/05 12:02am

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Interesting
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Reply #3 posted 01/18/05 1:46am

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VoicesCarry said:

Wonder what the org will look like when the trial starts. lol

"Meet the busboy who brought Michael Jackson his lunch today."

"Meet the pretty ladies on the front steps of the courthouse."

"Meet the washroom attendant who handed Michael the soap after court adjourned."


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