A CHILD who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing him described “markings” on the late star’s body that could only have been seen if he was naked, two cops have revealed in a new documentary.
Jordan Chandler, then 13, claimed Jacko groomed and molested him leading to the superstar performer’s arrest and “humiliating” strip search in 1993.
The allegation was reported to the Sexually Exploited Child Unit within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
Rosibel Smith, an LAPD detective who worked with the unit at the time, said the Billy Jean singer was accused of ‘rub[bing] his body against [the child’s] body’, fondling, as well as escalated sexual abuse.
In the bombshell documentary, Smith said the boy told police about specific markings on Jackson’s body.
“We had information from the victim about Michael’s body, and specifically the markings on his body”, she told the BBC.
“So the only way that a child would see that is if Michael was nude.”
The information led cops to prepare a search warrant for the King of Pop’s body, including his private areas.
Smith’s former colleague, Federico Sicard, also an LAPD detective, revealed the moment they told Jackson that they had a warrant signed by a judge to take images of his “private parts”.
Jackson was strip searched upon his return from his Dangerous World Tour, which was cancelled amid allegations of child molestation.
Sicard said: “He said, ‘You a**holes’. The outcome was that the evidence that was provided by Jordan Chandler – it was confirmed.”
Jacko, who denied all allegations of sex abuse made against him, later described the search as “the most humiliating ordeal of my life”.
“I ask all of you to wait, or hear the truth before you label or condemn me. Don’t treat me like a criminal because I am innocent,” Jackson said in his televised statement in 1993.
Following the strip search, Jackson agreed a massive settlement of between $20m and $24m after Jordan’s dad took legal action.
The singer was never charged over the allegations, which he denied.
Smith said she did not get the impression Jordan was “motivated” by money.
But, she said his “parents were a different story”.
“The father did, in fact, ask for money to keep the situation quiet”, she said.
Adding that the lawsuit settlement marked “pretty much the end of the LAPD’s case”.
Sicard added: “I felt bad because I was pretty certain that Rosie and I had a good case, but when the victim doesn’t want to testify, there is a saying that says ‘no victim no crime’. So there was nothing that we could do.”
According to numerous reports, including from investigative journalists such as Diane Dimond and Jacques Peretti, the child correctly identified marks on the star’s penis prompting Jacko to settle.
Author and ex-music industry exec John Niven claims that Jordan’s description of the singer’s manhood was “so accurate” he was able to identify where the “splotches” were placed when the entertainer’s penis was “erect.”
In a report of Jackson’s 2005 molestation trial, centering on claims by another accuser Gavin Arvizo, the judge ruled that the photos of Jackson’s penis and Jordan’s drawing were “inadmissible” and could not be used in the trial.
But prosecution lawyers believed that the teenager’s description of the celebrity’s penis would “prove” inappropriate behaviour with his boy companions, reports CNN.
Former Neverland security guard Ralph Chacon claimed he saw Jackson perform a sex act on Jordan during the 2005 trial – for which the King of Pop was acquitted of all charges.
Chacon told the court that the star and the child, aged 12 or 13, were standing naked in a changing room near a Jacuzzi at the star’s Californian mansion.
Jordan, whose father took his own life days after Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, has not been heard from since the mid-90s.
