I don't think MJ was a child molester. I honestly don't think he touched them in a negative way. I DO think that he was very disturbed. I know he had issues. The complexities of his mind put me in awe of him. What I would've done to have been a fly on the wall in his life. But that being said, he doesn't strike me as the type to touch children inappropriately. I think that his childhood was so traumatizing, that he went out of his way to give children what he never had. On a very minor scale, I think my brother is rather similar to MJ in that regard. My brother is 36 years old, but emotionally he seems to be stuck at 14. He absolutely LOVES playing video games, and he enjoys kids movies. He's very child-like in many ways. He gets along with my son amazingly well, and they have a relationship I would've died for as a kid. My brother is always taking him out to see the latest kids movies in 3D, and they wrestle and have tickle fights and play Spongebob together on Xbox. They snuggle sometimes when watching movies, too. Does that make him a pedophile? Not in the least. I trust my brother 100%. He would never touch a child inappropriately. He didn't even like changing my sons diapers for that reason, it was just too odd for him.
This is getting long. I guess, in a nutshell, I think that MJ enjoyed the company of children because it made him feel like a child himself, and allowed him to have a glimpse of the childhood he wished he'd had. I don't think he's a pedophile.