Love him or hate him, he helped define a generation, and for that ALONE he should be given some respect.  No one knows exactly what happened with the allegations against him, except that the boys father saw a quick way to make alot of money and jumped all over it.  After the settlement, it seemed to me that the case sure was dropped in a hurry...hard to do for a parent who just had their child victimized by someone.

I'm not saying the man is innocent or guilty, but for people to go around calling him a pedophile simply because he looks and acts weird is absurd.  I personally think he had more issues with regression coming from an intense sense of rejection that he felt all his life.  He certainly began to dissociate from reality later in life and many people took advantage of that.  Whatever you may THINK, his music is his best legacy and people should just leave it at that.