As a child pyschologist with over 20 years experience working in more crisis /abuse scenarios than I care to recall, I can assure you that simply participating in what amounted to sleepovers is no evidence of pedophiliac behaviour. Contrary to what most people assume about pedophiles, the overriding personality trait they demonstrate is not their interest in children – but their spectacular disinterest.

They are unable to perceive a child as being anything more than something to be used and dispensed with. This disinterest cannot be masked, it is part of the make-up of child predators. There are no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ with this. Mr Jackson, far from using children, clearly felt great affection and concern for them. He may have over-identified with them, but he did not present as a molester to any social worker or child specialist I have ever come across.

There isn’t a pedophile in the world with a track record of public works that Jackson had. He also clearly lavished healthy love and affection on his own children. The lack of corroborating evidence in 1993 and again in 2005, the lack of incriminating evidence over a 10 year period from the FBI investigation casts serious – if not fatal doubts, on the authenticity of both the accusations and the accusers themselves.

What I find truly shocking though, is that so many otherwise intelligent people allowed Mr Jackson’s addiction to surgery and his obvious self-identification issues, to obscure the reality of his innocence.

It was a clear case of – “well he’s odd so he must be guilty.”

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They are also a repetition of some of the remarks contained in the opening statement made by Tom Sneddon – the man who unsuccessfully prosecuted Mr Jackson in the trial of 2005.

It is perhaps not suprising that Mr Simmons makes these remarks, for they were the type widely publicized by the press in the period leading up to the trial.

The fact that Michael’s lawyer, Thomas Mesereau, overwhelmingly disproved each of the very allegations Mr Simmons is now repeating, was barely covered by the press at the time – or since.

There is also there absolutely no record of any musician quitting any of Michael Jackson’s tours, and such information is readily available if anyone wishes to look for it.

Mr Simmons himself says he met Michael when he was a teenager and that this is the extent of his involvement in Michael’s life. Therefore any theories he has regarding the turbulent allegation years of 1993 and 2003-2005, are mere speculation.

His ‘smoke without fire’ comment is no replacement for the fact that after 10 years of being investigated by both the LAPD and the FBI, no evidence of criminality concerning children could be attributed to Mr Jackson. There is also the small matter of 12 American citizens in the dominantly Republican State of Santa Barbara who found Michael unequivocally – not guilty.

Anyone can allege anything, and they often do when money is at stake – as the thwarted extortion attempts of Letterman, John Travolta and Cindy Crawford demonstrate.

What is needed is a clear rebuttal of these outrageous statements made by Mr Simmons, who clearly has not found his days of ‘shocking for effect’ easy to leave behind.

It could have been a publicity stunt. Gene will tell anybody who listens that he has bedded over 5,000 women in his time. I have the feeling that the number is probably closer to 5 than 5,000.