Jackson Not guilty

Jackson had stood trial on 10 counts including molestation, plying the boy with alcohol and conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.

The jury of eight women and four men reached the verdict on their seventh day of deliberations.

Prosecutors had argued that Jackson was a serial pedophile who preyed on young boys over a decade at Neverland. Jackson’s lawyers countered that it was the pop star who was the naive victim of a family of con artists, led by a greedy mother.