I agree flowery there's something peculiar about parents accepting money in lieu of justice, which has always for me, been a big red flag about those allegations. OTOH, having seen OJ Simpson get away with murder, the parents may well have been advised that MJ was so rich that he'd buy the jury and therefore they would put their DC's through a criminal trial with no justice at the end of it and therefore it was better to accept money as a form of retribution.
I've always been prepared to believe that it is possible that MJ was so childlike and innocent, as many of those who know him say he was, that he didn't realise the implications of taking a child into his bed and that there was no possibility of abuse. However, where I can't quite reconcile that, is with the fact that he knew enough about sex (apparantly) to conceive 3 children. Those 2 propositions contradict each other, for me.