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To: tool dude who wrote (131063)	4/14/2004 8:17:20 AM
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Police Probe New Michael Jackson Molestation Case By Howard Breuer and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police are investigating claims by an unidentified man that pop star Michael Jackson molested him in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, authorities said on Tuesday. The probe comes as Jackson battles child molestation charges in central California stemming from accusations made by a young boy who was seen with him in a controversial British television documentary filmed partly at his Santa Barbara county ranch . Attorneys for Jackson, 45, could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday. "They do have an investigation, that's correct," Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, told Reuters. She declined to comment further on specifics of the case, saying that the matter was still in the hands of Los Angeles police detectives. An LAPD spokesman said in a written statement that the investigation stemmed from a tip by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. "The victim alleges the acts took place in the City of Los Angeles in the late 1980s," LAPD spokesman Jason Lee said. "The Department's Juvenile Division, Child Protection Section, is currently investigating the allegations." It was not immediately clear if accusations dating to the 1980s could result in a criminal prosecution in 2004. Gibbons said the statute of limitations on most child molestation cases was eight years, though it could be extended under certain circumstances. Stan Goldman, a professor of criminal law at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles, said that if the Los Angeles case were too old to prosecute, the accuser could possibly be called to testify against Jackson in the Santa Barbara case. Jackson is charged in Santa Barbara with seven counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14 and two counts of plying the boy with alcohol in order to seduce him. He has pleaded innocent and called the charges a "big lie." Meanwhile a grand jury has been meeting in Santa Barbara to consider an indictment on similar charges against the self-proclaimed "King of Pop." A Santa Barbara County judge has said that he expects a trial in that matter to begin in December.