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icate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, CA Section/Page: B3 pate: Thursday, January 29, 2004 Title: JACKSON ACCUSER'S FATHER SEEKS TO VISIT Character or Classification: 300A-LA- 236475 Submitting Office: LOS ANGELES Jackson Accuser’s Father Seeks to Visit — He says he is concerned about the boy’s reported illness. A court order has kept him away. From Times Staff and Wire Reports A Los Angeles County Su- perior Court judge will decide next month if the father of singer Michael Jackson’s accuser will get to see the cancer-stricken boy for the first time in two years. The father, a locked-out gro- cery warehouseman, was oOr- dered by the court in November 2001 to stay away from his three children. The order was part of the father’s divorce from their mother. The man, whose name was being withheld to protect the identity of his son, an alleged vic- tim of child molestation, pleaded no contest to child cruelty in 2002 and spousal abuse in 2001. On Wednesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard E. Denner denied the - man’s emergency request for im- mediate visitation with his three children. Denner set a Feb. 24 hearing to consider the matter. The man said in court papers that he was concerned about re- ports that his 14-year-old son is seriously ill, as well as about the criminal charges accusing Jack- son of molesting the boy. The pop star has pleaded not guilty to seven criminal counts of performing lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14 and two counts of administering an in- toxicating agent. Outside the courtroom, at- How to Reach Us Subscription Services: (800) 252-9141 Los Angeles City Desk Phone: (213) 237-7847 Fax: (213) 237-4712 E-mail: metrodesk@latimes.com Mailing Address: Los Angeles Times City Desk ° 202 W. ist St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 torney H. Russell Halpern said his client was disturbed that his ex-wife had allowed their son to spend the night at Jackson’s home unsupervised. The man said in court papers that he believed his wife knew that Jackson had been accused of molesting another boy. Halpern said the mother’s lawyer, Michael Manning, had given him an unsigned doctor’s “letter saying that the boy’s can- cer was in remission and that the child was not in “present dan- ger,” despite having lost a kidney to the disease. He also said he had been given letters from the Santa Bar- bara County Sheriffs Depart- ment, saying “they felt that the boy was OK,” and from a pros- ecutor in the case opposed to the father’s being reunited with the boy. Prosecutors told Halpern that the father could be called as a witness in the upcoming child molestation trial. “He wants to reestablish him- self with his children ... not just for his sake but for the sake of his children,” Halpern said. SiDAA-23 6475 -B hol