I always think that the best way to see a man's real personality is to listen to the women and children in his life. Paris is both, and you can hear her now. It's blatantly clear that she mourns him. She cries for him. She loves him. And judging from her 2 brothers' expressions, then they must love him equally too.
Now, if a man is really that evil, can he be loved by 3 innocent hearts so much they cry for him? Don't lie to me about children will always cry for their parents, if Michael is a child-abuser then his children won't mourn him. Children capable of hating too you know, else we won't have troublesome children in some corrective institute that could show you hatred rivalling their adult-counterpart.
That be said, Michael loves children. Ironic, because his childhood is unhappy. I take it he wants to project the perfect childhood through other children, maybe he thought by giving these children perfect childhood then somehow he will be able to make peace with his own childhood.
About the case, please, use the "Innocent until proven guilty" remark.
The truth is, he never proven guilty.
And I don't believe these parents even a second. Why accept the money? What kind of message they send their children, that their body has pricetag somewhere in it, that they can use their body for money?
If it's my children, I won't accept even the total sum or all billionaires money in the world because my children's purity and well-being worth more than that, they only have me as their parent to protect them and it's my duty to show them what integrity means.
Also, strange that the children from well-to-do and wealthy families never fill any accusations at him(he is a star he must have a lot of connections and with connections he surely entertain their children too in his neverland ranch). It's always the not-so-well-to-do who filled accusation. Easy money eh?
