Jackson ‘lured vulnerable boys’

Victoria Ward, New York

Prosecutor Ron Zonen said Jackson followed a “grooming process” with accuser, Gavin Arvizo, and his younger brother, luring them into his grasp with sweets, video games and entertainment and separating them from their parents.

In his closing statement to the jury he said once in Jackson’s room the two boys learned about human sexuality “from someone who is only too willing to be their teacher.” “At night they entered