'He is innocent'
2003-11-21 13:01
Los Angeles - Jermaine Jackson, one of the Jackson Five, defended his superstar brother Michael against child molestation charges.
"He is innocent," Jermaine Jackson told CNN. "We are sick and tired of people speaking on my brother's behalf who do not know us."
"My brother is not eccentric. We had an incredible and wonderful childhood," he said.
"This is nothing but a modern-day lynching," he said. "We support him 1 000 percent."
The "King of Pop" arrived in handcuffs at Santa Barbara jail on Thursday to be charged with multiple counts of child abuse, witnesses saw.
Police and prosecutors on Wednesday announced "multiple counts" of abuse against a child under the age of 14 against one of the world's top performers, each of which could see him jailed for as many as eight years.