Accuser Believed Michael Jackson Helped Him Fight Cancer

The Associated Press reports Ahmad Elatab, a 17-year-old who befriended Michael Jackson’s cancer-stricken accuser says the boy told him Jackson helped him fight the illness through meditation. “He said it’s healed up because Michael taught him how to get rid of cancer because Michael meditates and stuff like that,” said Elatab. He said Jackson’s accuser also told him during the March outing that Jackson was a father figure to him and that he never saw Jackson do anything inappropriate. “He told me how he hates his parents a lot. … He said Michael was like a father to him,” Elatab said. “He called Michael sometimes ‘Dad’ and stuff. I saw how they acted around each other. He gives all the kids fatherly love, nothing sexual. … Michael never touches him inappropriately and he never touches Michael inappropriately. They just hold hands, all the kids hold hands with Michael. It’s fatherly.”