Michael Jackson faces a new sexual assault lawsuit

[cycloneye]

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A lawsuit has been filed accusing pop star Michael Jackson of sexual assault more than 20 years ago -- the memory of which the new accuser says he repressed until recently.

In a civil lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in New Orleans, Jackson is accused of sexual assault and battery, and false imprisonment.

The accuser claims that when he was 18 years old, Jackson had "harmful or offensive contact with an intimate part" of his body, allegedly during a nine-day period in May 1984.

He accuses Jackson of "sexually offensive contacts," cutting him "with a razor blade," puncturing his chest "with steel wire," "biting" him and making him consume "mood-altering substances."

The accuser alleges the crimes took place in a limousine while traveling from Louisiana to California, and in a building in California, and says that in both situations his "freedom of movement" was restrained and he was thus prevented from calling for help.

The accuser also alleges that Jackson and "Jackson's employees, at his direction, directly or indirectly" subjected him to "physical force, intimidation and duress to both allow Jackson to commit false imprisonment" and to "ensure the secrecy of those acts."

He says the ordeal led to "denial, repression, accommodation and disassociation" that caused his experiences with Jackson to be "subconsciously repressed."

According to the document, the accuser, now an adult, "denied the existence" and the "impact" of his false imprisonment until November of 2003, when a television special detailing the current molestation charges the entertainer faces in Santa Barbara County, California, aired and "enabled him to remember the incidents."




But why this lawsuit comes 20 years later and was not filed at the moment it happened?.The reason that this guy files the lawsuit 20 years later I dont buy it at all.

[alicia-w]

people go into shock when this sort of alleged behavior occurs. the first couple of sentences says he repressed the incident in his memory. i dont think it's all that uncommon for that to happen.

[allman15]

Why does everbody contiue to pick on MJ,he seems normal to me.

[alicia-w]

because he's not all there, that's why. what a nutjob.

[allman15]

because he's not all there, that's why. what a nutjob.

That may be your opinion,but i was brought up not to judge other people,may god bless you and yours.

[alicia-w]

so you dont have any opinions on the aberrant behavior of other people?

is that is indeed true, it's admirable.

[CaptinCrunch]

gold digger.

[cycloneye]

All is about money,money,money.............

[webke]

I may be wrong but if you do the math , the accuser was 18 when the incident happened, so that would now make him 38, isn't jackson in his mid forties, that would mean he started with people older than him not kids.