Smoking Gun has a confidential Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services memorandum detailing the Los Angeles child welfare agency's February 2003 investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson by the cancer-stricken accuser who is now the purported victim in the forthcoming criminal case. The report concludes the charges are unfounded. Details here.

A confidential investigation by Los Angeles police and child welfare officials concluded earlier this year that allegations Michael Jackson sexually abused a cancer-stricken boy were "unfounded," according to an internal government memo obtained by The Smoking Gun.

The probe's findings were based, in large part, on interviews with the alleged victim, his two siblings, and the boy's mother. According to the memo, when the child was questioned in February by a social worker assigned to the Sensitive Case Unit of L.A.'s Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS), he "denied any form of sexual abuse" by Jackson and said that he never "slept in the same bed as the entertainer." While not specifically named in the DCFS memo, the 45-year-old Jackson is referred to repeatedly as "the entertainer."

The report says the probe began with a call from a school official to an abuse hotline after the airing of the 20/20 documentary in February. [link via Drudge]

Update: News coverage: Here and here.