Mother of Jackson's accuser's gives birth to fourth child, source confirms
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES -- The woman who has accused Michael Jackson of molesting her 12-year-old son gave birth to her fourth child this week, sources told The Associated Press.
Jackson's lawyer, Thomas Mesereau Jr., said in court Tuesday that the woman, referred to in court papers as "Jane Doe," had remarried. She has been in a custody dispute with the ex-huband who fathered her other three children, including the accuser, who is now 13. He has a brother and sister.
Reports have previously linked the woman romantically to a retired military officer and said they were living with her children in West Los Angeles.
A court document released this week in edited form by Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville showed that a woman who is a key witness was unable to respond to a subpoena to testify at last Tuesday's hearing because, "She is not physically able to obey it."
"... She will not be able to attend court on July 27 because she will have given birth on or before that date," the document said.
On Thursday, a source close to the mother confirmed that she gave birth to a child Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The information about the woman's pregnancy was part of a prosecution motion to invalidate defense subpoenas for the woman and other witnesses who live more than 150 miles from the Santa Maria courthouse where the Jackson hearings are being held. Prosecutors also claimed that the people being summoned for the hearing could not provide relevant information.
As for the woman, they said, "She will be in no condition to travel to Santa Maria on July 27, let alone to be subjected to hostile examination by one or another of defendant's several attorneys on that date."
It was not clear whether the judge would instruct her and other witnesses to attend the next hearing on Aug. 16.
The motion appeared to refer to the woman, her lawyer and a psychiatrist who first alerted authorities to the molestation claims.
The testimony that was being sought has to do with whether prosecutors knew that a private investigator whose office they searched was working for Jackson's former lawyer, Mark Geragos. Among items allegedly seized from the office were video and audio tapes marked with the names of the accuser's family.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to charges of committing a lewd act upon a child, giving the child alcohol and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. He is free on $3 million bail.
SOURCE: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...9/APN/407291177
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES -- The woman who has accused Michael Jackson of molesting her 12-year-old son gave birth to her fourth child this week, sources told The Associated Press.
Jackson's lawyer, Thomas Mesereau Jr., said in court Tuesday that the woman, referred to in court papers as "Jane Doe," had remarried. She has been in a custody dispute with the ex-huband who fathered her other three children, including the accuser, who is now 13. He has a brother and sister.
Reports have previously linked the woman romantically to a retired military officer and said they were living with her children in West Los Angeles.
A court document released this week in edited form by Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville showed that a woman who is a key witness was unable to respond to a subpoena to testify at last Tuesday's hearing because, "She is not physically able to obey it."
"... She will not be able to attend court on July 27 because she will have given birth on or before that date," the document said.
On Thursday, a source close to the mother confirmed that she gave birth to a child Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The information about the woman's pregnancy was part of a prosecution motion to invalidate defense subpoenas for the woman and other witnesses who live more than 150 miles from the Santa Maria courthouse where the Jackson hearings are being held. Prosecutors also claimed that the people being summoned for the hearing could not provide relevant information.
As for the woman, they said, "She will be in no condition to travel to Santa Maria on July 27, let alone to be subjected to hostile examination by one or another of defendant's several attorneys on that date."
It was not clear whether the judge would instruct her and other witnesses to attend the next hearing on Aug. 16.
The motion appeared to refer to the woman, her lawyer and a psychiatrist who first alerted authorities to the molestation claims.
The testimony that was being sought has to do with whether prosecutors knew that a private investigator whose office they searched was working for Jackson's former lawyer, Mark Geragos. Among items allegedly seized from the office were video and audio tapes marked with the names of the accuser's family.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to charges of committing a lewd act upon a child, giving the child alcohol and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. He is free on $3 million bail.
SOURCE: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...9/APN/407291177